GENERA OF AFRICAN LYCAENIDAE 



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clothed with hair, tibia with a dorsal outer spur and two inner apical spines, tarsus stout, 

 unsegmented, clothed with short adpressed hair and bearing below long spines, the apical claw 

 slightly curved ; mid and hind legs very robust, with tibiae shorter than femora, tarsi long and 

 stout, strongly spinose below, the metatarsus very long. 



Wing shape. Fore wing with apex pointed, outer margin angled at the end of vein 4 ; hind 

 wing oval, produced at the anal angle, outer margin slightly scalloped at the ends of the veins, 

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



Wing venation (Text-fig. 306). Fore wing with only 10 veins. 



Male genitalia (Text-fig. 149, side view of genitalia, right valve removed and other parts 

 in situ ; Text-fig. 150, postero- ventral view of genitalia, parts separated and flattened out) : 

 uncus composed of two oval lobes ; subunci long, much swollen basally, bent in an acute angle, 

 the free branch slender and ending in a widely open claw, the lower edge bearing a short 

 apophysis at the angle ; tegumen lozenge-shaped ; in situ uncus and tegumen together are 

 hood-shaped ; vinculum fairly wide, prolonged to form a short, robust'saccus ; lower fultura 

 composed of two long conical processes bristling with strong spines at the tip ; valves oblong, 

 their upper processes rolled back on to the inner surface and connected in the middle by a thinly 

 sclerotized band which passes above the penis ; penis long and robust, slightly curved, its 

 internal portion swollen ; vesica (exserted in Text-fig. 150) encloses a number of large cornuti ; 

 uncus and upper processes of the valves pilose. 



In bambana the inferior fultura is formed of two suboval lobes with rounded ends, 

 a character which permits its easy separation from harpax, a species with which it is 

 easily confused if reliance is placed only on the very variable external appearance 

 (cf. Stempffer, 1957, Bull. Inst.fr. Afr. noire 19 : 217). 



On the other hand, in amanga the two branches of the inferior fultura are very long 

 and tapering and extend beyond the tips of the valves. 



Fig. 150. Axiocerses harpax harpax (Fabricius) <$ tegumen, penis 

 harpax f. kadngli Talbot, valves. 



