GENERA OF AFRICAN LYCAENIDAE B5 



penis ; valves oblong, ending in a slightly recurved process with rounded apex ; penis elongate, 

 subcylindrical, slightly curved, the apex obliquely truncate and widely open ; uncus and median 

 and distal parts of the valves all very pilose. 



I have examined the genitalia of eight other species besides P. elais, namely P. 

 vansomereni, P. hyettoides, P. intermixta, P. henleyi, P. schaltzei, P. reducta, P. 

 benitensis and P. rezia. 



The genitalia of all these species are all much alike and of a type common to 

 most of the Epitolinae, but the dorsal surface of the penis bears rounded expansions 

 which are not present in P. elais. This last species is rather isolated in the genus 

 Phytala both in its larger size and in the shape of its hind wings, in which the margin 

 is slightly angled. 



List of Species of Phytala 



Phytala aequatorialis Jackson, 1964 : 62, figs. 

 *Phytala benitensis (Holland), 1890. Fig. Jackson, 1964. 

 Phytala elaidina Strand, see elais cat or i. 



* Phytala elais elais Westwood, 185 1. 

 Phytala elais catori Bethune Baker, 1903. 



elais f. elaidina Strand, 1920. 



* Phytala elais ugandae Jackson, 1964 : 60, figs. 

 *Phytala henleyi (Kirby), 1890. Fig. Smith & Kirby, 1892. 



Phytala hyetta (Hewitson), 1873. Fig. Hewitson, 1878. 

 Phytala hyettina Aurivillius, 1897. Fig. Aurivillius, 1898. 



* Phytala hyettoides (Aurivillius), 1895. Fig. Aurivillius, 1920. 

 *Phytala intermixta Aurivillius, 1897. Fig. Aurivillius, 1898. 



Phytala nigrescens Jackson, 1964 : 67, figs. 



Phytala obscura Schultze, 1915, Arch. Naturgesch. 81, A, 12 : 142. 



* Phytala reducta Aurivillius, 1923, Ergebn. zte D. Zent. Afr. Exp. 1910-11, 1 : 



1197. Fig. Jackson, 1964. 

 *Phytala rezia (Smith & Kirby), 1893. 

 *Phytala schultzei Aurivillius, 1923, Ergebn. zte D. Zent. Afr. Exp. 1910-11, 1 : 



1 196, fig. 

 *Phytala vansomereni Jackson, 1964 : 6o, figs. 



Genus EPITOLA Westwood 



Epitola Westwood, 1851, Gen. Diurn. Lep. pi. 68, fig. 5 ; Aurivillius, 1898 : 289 ; 1920 : 349. 



Type-species : Epitolaelion Westwood, 1851, I.e., by monotypy (Papilio posthumiis Fabricius, 



1793)- 



Eyes large, smooth ; palpi ascending, protruding well beyond the frons, clothed with ad- 

 pressed scales, second segment robust, much swollen, third segment short, slender, acuminate ; 

 antennae long and fine with a gradually swollen ovoid club ; $ fore leg with femur somewhat 

 swollen, tibia long and slender, tarsus short, unsegmented, finely spinose below. 



Wing venation (Text-fig. 268). Fore wing with 11 and 12 not confluent, 10 and 11 arising free 

 from anterior border of cell ; hind wing cell produced at its lower angle, the lower discocellular 

 being very oblique. 



