GENERA OF AFRICAN LYCAENIDAE 



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Oxylides Hiibner (partim) ; Aurivillius, 1898 : 312 ; 1922 : 380. 



Eyes naked ; palpi only slightly protruding beyond the frons, second segment laterally 

 compressed and clothed below with aclpressccl scales, third segment slender, acuminate ; 

 antennae slender, about half as long as the costa, white-annulated, club very slightly swollen 

 and with pointed apex ; thorax moderately robust ; abdomen short, clothed ventrally with 

 silky, white hairs ; legs slender, black and white-annulated, $ fore tarsus unsegmented. 



Wing shape. Fore wing short and broad, costa very convex, outer margin very convex, 

 inner margin straight ; hind wing outer margin slightly toothed at the end of veins 6, 5 and 4 ; 

 three unequal tails, one each at the ends of veins 3, 2 and ib, the one at vein 2 much longer than 

 the others. 



Wing venation (Text-fig. 285). lore wing with only 10 veins. 



Male genitalia (Text-fig. 103). Uncus composed of two subtriangular lobes separated by 

 the depression of the posterior margin of the tegumen ; subunci extremelv robust, only slightly 

 curved, and bearing on the lower edge of its distal third a well marked tooth ; tegumen rather 

 large ; vinculum broad dorsally, narrow ventrally and prolonged to form a long tapering 

 saccus ; lower fultura composed of a small lamella with rounded apex ; valves small, oblong, 

 with slightly spatulate apices ; penis elongate, slightly curved, inner part swollen, outer part 

 tapering gradually ; a few hairs on the uncus and apices of the valves. 



The male genitalia of bella and gloveri are very similar to those of j 'annus. 



List of Species of Oxylides 



*Oxylides bella Aurivillius, 1898. 

 *Oxylides faunus f annus (Drury), 1773. 



hesiodus (Fabricius), 1793. 

 * Oxylides faunus albata (Aurivillius), 1895. 

 feminina Sharpe, 1904. 

 Oxylides faunus ab. $ caerulescens Aurivillius, 1923, Ergebn. 2te D. Zent. Afr. 



Exp. 1910-11, 1 : 1121. 

 Oxylides feminina Sharpe, see faunus albata. 



Oxylides gloveri Hawker Smith, 1929, Bull. Hill Mus. Witley 3 : 234. 

 Oxylides hesiodus (Fabricius), see faunus. 



Fig. 103. Oxylides faunus faunus (Drury), jj genitalia. 



