GENERA OF AFRICAN LYCAENID \l- 



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Genus NEOEPITOLA Jackson 



Neopitola Jackson, 1964, Bull. Br. Mus. nat. Hist. (Ent.) 15 : 78. Type-species : Epitola 



barombiensis Kirby, 1890, by original designation. 

 Epitola Westwood (partim) : Aurivillius, 1898 : 293 ; 1920 : 358. 



Eyes smooth ; palpi reaching beyond the frons, the second segment broad, laterally com- 

 pressed, third segment short, slender, acuminate ; antennae less than half the length of costa, 

 annulated black and white, club distinct and flattened ; legs black with a few white scales, fore 

 tarsi of $ unsegmented, tibiae of hind legs swollen. 



Wing venation (Text-fig. 269). On the fore wing vein 11 arises from 10 and is very close to, 

 but not touching, vein 12. 



Male genitalia (Text-fig. 86). Uncus crescentic, its posterior margin slightly depressed dors- 

 ally ; subunci rather stout, curved near the base ; tegumen suboval ; vinculum rather broad, 

 prolonged as a long triangular saccus ; lower fultura attached to a fold of the base of the valves, 

 tightly enclosing the base of the penis ; valves oblong, obliquely truncate at the apex, and with 

 the upper process bearing a kind of subtriangular harpe clothed in small short spines ; penis 

 elongate, the dorsal and ventral margins of the external part deeply excised, the whole resembling 

 a shallow sickle complete with handle and curved blade ; uncus densely pubsecent, the distal 

 fourth of valves slightly hairy. 



List of Species of Neoepitola 

 Neoepitola barombiensis (Kirby), 1890. Fig. Smith & Kirby, 1892. 



Genus AETHIOPANA Bethune Baker 



Aethiopana Bethune Baker, 1915, Ann. Mag. >iat. Hist. (8) 16 : 191. Type-species : Paptlio 



honorius Fabricius, by original designation. 

 Epitola Westwood (partim) ; Aurivillius, 1898 : 291 ; 1920 : 351. 



Eyes large, smooth ; palpi ascending, protruding far beyond the frons, clothed with adpressed 

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



Fig. 86. Neoepitola barombiensis (Kirby), o genitalia. 



