GENERA OF AFRICAN LYCAENIDAE 



Genus ACTIS Karsch 



Actis Karsch, 1895, Ent. Nachr. 21 : 315. Type-species : Actis mimeta Karsch, selected by 



Hemming, i960, Annot. Lep. 1 : 8. 

 Deudorix Hewitson (partim) ; Aurivillius, 1898 : 306 ; 1923 : 366. 



Eyes large, densely but shortly pilose ; palpi rather long, ascending, second segment long, 

 laterally compressed, with long hairs below at its base, third segment short and slender ; anten- 

 nae long, slender, white annulated, club fusiform ; 3" fore tarsus unsegmented. 



Wing shape. Inner border of fore wing slightly lobed in basal third. The <J has the following 

 secondary sexual characters : on the underside of the base of the fore wing there is a patch 

 between vein 1 and the lower edge of the cell, and on the inner margin a small brush of tawny 

 hairs lying along the surface of the wing and directed towards the aforementioned patch ; on the 

 upper side of the hind wing there is a small clear silky patch between vein 8 and the origin of vein 

 7 and partly covered by the small lobe of the inner margin of the fore wing. 



Wing venation (Text-fig. 277). Fore wing with 1 1 veins ; 10 and 1 1 free, from the upper edge 

 of the cell. 



Male genitalia (Text-fig. 94). Uncus composed of two rounded lobes separated by the median 

 depression of the hind edge of the tegumen ; subunci rather long, slender, curving ; tegumen 

 very large, hood-shaped ; vinculum moderately wide with an indistinct saccus ; valves very 

 elongate, the lower process ending in a point, the upper process much shorter and folded in- 

 wards to envelope the penis, which is robust, dilated distally, its apex crowned with fine, erect 

 spines ; vesica with many cornuti and enclosing an enormous cuneus. Uncus clothed with long 

 fine hair, valves slightly hairy apically. 



The male genitalia of Actis ula are similar. 



List of Species of Actis 



* Actis mimeta mimeta Karsch, 1895, (<J). 



perigrapha (Karsch), 1895 ($). 

 Actis mimeta unda (Gaede), 1915. 

 Actis perigrapha (Karsch), see mimeta. 



* Actis ula Karsch, 1895. 



Actis ula ab. nigrostriata (Aurivillius), 

 1910-n, 1 : 1215. 



Fig. Aurivillius in Seitz, 1923. 



1923, Ergebn. ite D. Zent. Afr. Exp. 



Fig. 94. Actis mimeta mimeta Karsch, o* genitalia. 



