GENERA OF AFRICAN LYCAENIDAE 



List of Species of Argyrocheila 



* Argyrocheila bitje Bethune Baker, 1915, Ann. Mag. nat. Hist. (8) 16 : 187. 



* Argyrocheila inundifera Hawker Smith, 1933, Stylops 2 : 10. 



* Argyrocheila undifera undifera Staudinger, 1891. 



* Argyrocheila undifera ugandae Hawker Smith, 1933, Stylops 2 : 10. 



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Genus AS L AUG A Kirby 



Aslauga Kirby, 1890, Ann. Mag. nat. Hist. (6) 6 : 261 ; Aurivillius, 1898 : 284 ; 1920 : 341 

 (pro parte) ; Bethune Baker, 1924 : 208. Type-species : Aslauga marginalis Kirby, 1890 

 (Liphyra vininga Hevvitson, 1875), by selection by Bethune Baker. 1924, Trans, ent. Soc. 

 London 1924 : 209. 



Eyes naked ; palpi divergent, obliquely erect, clothed with adpressed scales, third segment 

 fairly long ; antennae short and thick, segments not much longer than broad, club rounded ; 

 cJ fore tarsus composed of five distinct segments, with two claws on terminal segment, as in the $. 



Wing shape : shape peculiar ; fore wing slightly falcate, outer margin excised at extremity of 

 vein 6, strongly convex at the extremities of veins 4 and 3 ; hind wing with anal margin concave 

 between the ends of veins ia and ib, outer margin concave between ib and 4, thus forming a 

 blunt tooth at the end of ib and an angle at the end of 4. 



Wing venation (Text-fig. 252). 



Male genitalia (Text-fig. 66). Dorsal elements small in relation to the other parts of the 

 genitalia ; uncus deeply excised at the apex; no subunci ; tegumen with a median rounded 

 protuberance on the anterior edge ; vinculum very narrow, prolonged to form a strong saccus ; 

 lower fultura composed of two large triangular lobes with pointed apex ; valves elliptical, their 

 lower process short, upper process ending in a long, strong hook ; penis massive, subcylindrical, 

 tapering slightly in its external portion ; vesica armed with numerous cornuti and strong spines ; 

 uncus and apices of valves pilose. 



Aslauga lamborni (Text-fig. 67). The genitalia have been described by Bethune 

 Baker somewhat inaccurately. Even if it is true that the uncus is only weakly 



Fig. 66. Aslauga vininga (Hewitson), o* genitalia. 



