GENERA OF AFRICAN LYCAENIDAE 155 



List of Species of Paraphnaeus 



*Paraphnaeus hutchinsoni hutchinsoni (Trimen), 1887. Fig. Butler, 1898. 



zanzibarensis (Smith), 1889. 

 *Paraphnaeus hutchinsoni drucei (Xeave), 1904. 

 Paraphnaeus zanzibarensis (Smith), see hutchinsoni. 



Genus APHARITIS Riley 



Apharitis Riley, 1925, Novit. zool. 32 : 78. Type-species : Polyommatus epargyros Fversman 



(a palaearctic species), by original designation. 

 Spindasis Wallengren (partim) ; Aurivillius, 1898 : 332 ; 1924, 414. 



Eyes glabrous ; palpi fairly long, second segment long, laterally compressed, clothed below 

 with dense white adpressed scales, third segment rather short, slightly inflected, acuminate ; 

 antennae slightly longer than half the length of the costa, white-annulated, club elongate, 

 flattened, rust-coloured below ; thorax robust, clothed below with long silky hairs ; (J fore leg 

 with tibia as long as femur, tarsus unsegmented, finely spinose below ; mid and hind legs with 

 tibiae shorter than femora, metatarsi very long. 



Wing shape. Fore wing with apex pointed, outer margin convex between the apex and 

 vein 4, slightly concave between vein 4 and the inner angle ; hind wing with costa much 

 arched, apex rounded, outer margin slightly concave between veins 4 and 2, angular at the end 

 of vein 2, a delicate tail at the end of ib, a small lobe at the anal angle. 



Wing venation (Text-fig. 301). Fore wing with 11 veins. 



Male genitalia (Text-fig. 139 ; for lateral view see Riley, 1925, fig. 5). Uncus composed 

 of two subtriangular lobes with rounded apices and separated by a deep groove in the hind 

 margin of the tegumen ; subunci long and robust, strongly bent at about two-fifths of their 

 length and tapering gradually to a blunt apex ; tegumen rather small, in situ uncus and 

 tegumen together are hood-shaped ; vinculum fairly wide, with a short, broad saccus ; lower 

 fultura consists of a small shield-shaped plate which is deeply indented on its upper edge ; 

 valves subtriangular with blunt apices, their upper processes folded inwards and connected 

 midway by a narrow membranous band, which passes over the penis in the same way as in 

 species of Aphnaeus, Paraphnaeus, Spindasis, etc. ; penis robust, with a cylindrical basal 

 portion, the dorsal surface distinctly at an angle to the general axis, as in species of Spindasis 

 (Riley, 1925, calls it " funnel-shaped ") ; the ventral surface of the external portion is gutter- 



Fig. 139. Apharitis epargyros (Eversman), $ genitalia. 



