GENERA OF AFRICAN LYCAENIDAE o 



List of Species of Alaena 



Alaena amazoula amazoula Boisduval, 1847. Fig. Trimen, 1862. 



Alaena amazoula congoana Aurivillius, 1914. 



Alaena amazoula nyasana Hawker Smith, 1933, Stylops 2 : 1. 



Aleana aurantiaca see interposita. 



Alaena bicolora Bethune Baker, 1924, Ann. Mag. nat. Hist. (9) 14 : 130. 



Alaena caissa Rebel & Rogenhofer, 1894. Fig. Aurivillius in Seitz, 1914-25. 



Alaena caissa kagera Talbot, 1935, Entomologists' mon. Mag. 71 : 69, fig. 



Alaena ferrulineata Hawker Smith, 1933, Stylops 2 : 2. 



Alaena interposita interposita Butler, 1883. 



Alaena interposita hauttecoeuri Oberthur, 1888. 



aurantiaca Butler, 1895. 

 Alaena Johanna E. M. Sharpe, 1890. Fig. Shaxpe, 1894. 

 Alaena Johanna tsavoa Jackson, 1965, Ann. Mag. nat. Hist. (13) 8 : 527, fig. 

 Alaena kiellandi Carcasson, 1965, J. E. Ajr. n. H. Soc. 25 : 132, figs. 

 Alaena lamborni Clifford, 1965, Butt. Malawi : 41, figs. 

 Alaena maculata maculata Hawker Smith, 1933, Stylops 2 : 3. 

 Alaena maculata ochrea Hawker Smith, i'i ; ;, Stylops 2 : 3. 

 Alaena madibirensis Wichgraf, 192 1, /;//. cut. Z. 14 : 195. 

 Alaena major, see nyassae. 



* Alaena margaritacea Eltringham, 1929, Trans, ent. Soc. Loud. 77 : 492. Fig. 



Murray, 1935. 

 Alaena mulsa, see picata. 

 Alaena ngonga Jackson, 1965, I.e. : 521, fig. 



* Alaena nyassae nyassae Hcwitson, 1877. Fig. Trimen, 1894 = major Oberthur, 



1894. 

 Alaena nyassae marmorata Hawker Smith, 1933, Stylops 2 : 1. 

 Alaena nyassae ab. ochracea Butler, 1893. 

 * Alaena oberthuri Aurivillius, 1898. Fig. Aurivillius in Seitz, 1914-25. 



* Alaena picata picata E. M. Sharpe, 1896. Fig. Aurivillius in Seitz, 1914-25. 



mulsa Thieme, 1904 ; rollei Suffert, 1904. 

 Alaena picata interrupta Hawker Smith, 1933, Stylops 2 : 2. 

 Alaena picata connectens Talbot, 1935, Entomologist's mon. Mag. 71 : 69. 

 Alaena reticulata Butler, 1896. Fig. Butler, 1897. 

 Alaena rollei see picata. 

 * Alaena subrubra Bethune Baker, 1915, Ann. Mag. nat. Hist. (8) 16 : 186. 



* Alaena unimaculata Hawker Smith, 1926, Revue Zool. Bot. afr. 14 : 237. 



Genus TELIPNA Aurivillius 



Telipna Aurivillius, 1895, Ent. Tidskr. 16 : 198 ; 1898 : 256 ; 1914-25 : 300. Type-species : 

 Liptena acraea YVestwood, 1851 ; 1959 : I. C.Z.N. Opinion 566. 



This type-designation, made under the plenary powers of the International 

 Commission for Zoological Nomenclature, is justified by the facts, which are clearly 



