GENERA OF AFRICAN LYCAENIDAE 71 



Wing venation (Text-fig. 254). The figure given by Bethune Baker (1924 : 204) is not correct ; 

 he shows 13 veins in the fore wing. 



Male genitalia (Text-fig. 69). Uncus trapezoidal, the posterior edge notched, the two side 

 edges folded back on the inner surface ; subunci long, robust, tapered at the apex and bent at an 

 obtuse angle ; anterior edge of tegumen strongly convex, projecting towards tergite 8 ; vincu- 

 lum rather wide, prolonged below to form a large rounded saccus ; inferior fultura composed of 

 two lobes in the form of a crescent ; valves moderately large, oblong, the apex of the upper 

 process bent back ; penis very small, elongate, subcylindrical with rounded apex ; sides of 

 uncus and distal portions of the valves bearing a few hairs. 



The genitalia of E. leucyana are of the same type as those of E. mirifica, except 

 that the subunci are bent in an acute angle. In both these species the genitalia 

 resemble somewhat those of Liphyra brassolis Westwood. 



Of all Ethiopian genera, Eitliphyra comes nearest to the Indo-Malayan Liphyra, 

 not only in the structure of its male genitalia and the segmented fore tarsi of the 

 male but also in the morphology and ethology of its early stages. The caterpillar of 

 E. mirifica has been described by Lamborn {Trans, ent. Soc. Lond. 1913 : 450) and 

 Eltringham (Trans, ent. Soc. Lond. 1913 : 509 and ibid. 1921 : 474). It is dorsally 

 clothed in a tough carapace which protects it admirably from the attacks of ants 

 (Oecophylla smaragdina longinosa Latreille), in the nest of which it lives. The 

 conical head is borne on a sort of retractile neck. It does not seem to eat any 

 vegetable food ; the ants feed it by regurgitation and get nothing in exchange. 

 Pupation takes place practically inside the skin of the last larval instar, and this is 

 another analogy with Liphyra brassolis, in which, however, the chrysalis is com- 

 pletely enclosed in the cast-off skin. 



List of Species of Euliphyra 



Euliphyra hewitsoni Aurivillius, see mirifica. 

 *Euliphyra leucyana (Hewitson), 1874. Fig. Hewitson, 1878. 

 *Euliphyra mirifica mirifica Holland, 1890. 

 hewitsoni Aurivillius, 1898. 



Euliphyra mirifica sjoestedti Aurivillius, 1895. 



Genus EGUMBIA Bethune Baker 



Egumbia Bethune Baker, 1924, Ann. Mag. nat. Hist. (9) 14 : 135. Type-species : Egumbia 



catori Bethune Baker, K)2$ = {Epitola ernesti Karsch, 1895) by original designation. 

 Euliphyrodcs Romieux, 1937, Mitt, schweiz. ent. Ges. 17 : 120. 



Bethune Baker, owing to the segmentation of the fore tarsi, mistook the type 

 specimen of catori for a female, whereas it is really a male as shown by the genitalia. 

 Karsch had previously described ernesti (1895) from a true female. 



Fig. 70. Egumbia ernesti (Karsch) q\ extremity of anterior tarsus. 



