GENERA OF AFRICAN LYCAENID M. 109 



V. galathea the apex is less pointed and the outer margin slightly convex) ; costa 

 slightly convex, apex gently rounded, outer margin more or less convex in species of 

 Hypomyrina and Hypokopelates ; outer margin distinctly convex in species of Actis, 

 Kopelates and Diopetes. In all the genera the hind wing is lobed between the end of 

 vein lb and the anal angle, tailed at the end of vein 2, and the outer margin is more 

 or less angular at the end of vein 3. However, a single exception is provided by V. 

 ecaudata (dohertyi B. Baker) which lacks a tail. Male secondary sexual characters 

 axe present in all the genera except Hypomyrina. 



Venation, except for some minor details, is identical in all the genera, with the 

 exception of Kopelates, where veins n and 12 of the fore wing are anastomosed, but 

 I do not think that much stress should be laid on this character because I have found 

 the same peculiarity in a specimen of Hypokopelates eleala Hewitson. 



The male genitalia are of a uniform type in all the genera ; however, in species of 

 Virachola the penis is generally more elongate and the subunci shorter and more 

 robust, often bearing a small apophysis on the lower edge. 



None of these characters seems to me to be of real generic value. I agree with 

 Aurivillius, who concluded that all these subdivisions of Deudorix were at most 

 subgenera or even only simple groups of species. 



List of Species of Virachola 



Virachola alticola (Aurivillius), see lorisona. 

 Virachola anta Trimen, see antahts. 



Virachola antalus antalus (Hopffer), 1855. Fig. Hopffer, 1862 ; Stempffer, 

 1938, Mission Omo 4 : 179 (genitalia). 

 anta (Trimen), 1862 ; gambius (Mabille), 1885. 

 Virachola antalus kitobolensis (Strand), 1912. 



Virachola badhami (Carcasson), 1961, Occ. Pap. Coryndon meml Mits. 7 : 19, fig. 

 Virachola baronica (Ungemach), 1932, Mem. Soc. Sci. nat. phys. Maroc 82, fig. 

 Virachola batikeli (Boisduval), 1833. 



licinia (Mabille), 1878 ; derona (Smith), 1891. 

 Virachola batikeli ab. tsiphana (Boisduval), 1833. 



Virachola batikelides (Holland), 1920, Bull. Am. Mus. nat. Hist. 43 : 221, fig. 

 Virachola bimaculata (Hewitson), see lorisona. 

 *Virachola caliginosa (Lathy), 1903. Fig. genitalia, Gifford, 1963, Entomologist 

 96 : 46. 

 Virachola chalybeata (Joicey & Talbot), 1926, Entomologist 59 : 225. 

 *Virachola dariaves (Hewitson), 1877. Fig. Hewitson, 1878. 



Virachola derona (Smith), see batikeli. 

 *Virachola dinochares dinochares (Smith), 1887. Figs. Monteiro, 1891 ; 

 Stempffer, 1938, Mission Omo 4 : 179, (genitalia). 

 licinia (Trimen), nee Mabille, 1887. 

 *Virachola dinochares rhodesiensis (Stevenson), 1937, Occ. Pap. natn. Mus. 



Sth. Rhod. 6 : 21. 

 *Virachola dinomenes (Smith), 1887. 



