168 H. STEMPFFER 



In punicea and jacksoni the inferior fultura is composed of lobes which are clearly 

 longer than in bambana, and in jacksoni the subunci are devoid of apophyses. 



The early stages of A. amanga have been described by Jackson (1937, Trans. R. 

 ent. Soc. Lond. 86 : 219) and Pinhey, 1949 : 106. The caterpillar lives on the leaves 

 of Ximenia americana L., in symbiosis with ants (Camponotus niveosetosus Mayr). 

 The caterpillar of the widely distributed A. harpax is so far unknown. 



List of Species of Axiocerses 



*Axiocerses amanga amanga (Westwood), 1881. Fig. Trimen, 1887. 

 * Axiocerses amanga mendeche (Smith), 1889. Fig. Aurivillius in Seitz, 1924. 

 mendeche bistrigata Aurivillius, 1924 ($). 

 Axiocerses amanga mendeche borealis Aurivillius, 1915. 

 Axiocerses argenteomaculata Pagenstecher, 1902. 

 * Axiocerses bambana Smith, 1900. 



mendeche bistrigata Aurivillius, 1924 {<$). 

 Axiocerses baumi Weymer, 1901. 

 Axiocerses croesus (Trimen), see harpax. 

 Axiocerses cruenta (Trimen), see punicea. 

 * Axiocerses harpax harpax (Fabricius), 1775. Fig. Cramer, 1781 (as perion). 

 tjoane ( Wallengren) , 1857 '< croesus (Trimen), 1862 ; harpax piscatoris Clench, 



1943- 



* Axiocerses harpax f. perion (Cramer), 1781. 



*Axiocerses harpax f. kadugli Talbot, 1935, Entomologist's mon. Mag. 71 : 120, 

 pi. 2, fig. 9. 

 Axiocerses harpax efulena Clench, 1963, // New York ent. Soc. 71 : 183. 

 Axiocerses harpax styx Rebel, 1908. 

 Axiocerses harpax piscatoris Clench, see harpax. 

 Axiocerses harpax ugandana Clench, 1863, I.e. : 184. 



* Axiocerses jacksoni Stempffer, 1948, Revue jr. Ent. 15 : 19, fig. genitalia. 

 Axiocerses maureli Dufrane, 1954, Bidl. Annls Soc. R. ent. Belg. 90 : 284. 



*Axiocerses mendeche bistrigata Aurivillius ; J see bambana ; $ see amanga 



mendeche. 

 * Axiocerses punicea (Smith), 1889. Fig. Trimen, 1894 (as cruenta). 

 cruenta (Trimen), 1894. 

 Axiocerses tjoane (Wallengren), see harpax. 



Genus LEPTOMYRINA (LEPTOMYRINA) Butler 



Leptomyrina Butler, 1898, Proc. zool. Soc. Lond. 1898 : 405 ; Aurivillius, 1898 : 335 ; 1924 : 

 421 ; Murray, 1935 : 93 ; Pinhey, 1949 : 106 ; Swanepoel, 1953 : 171. Type-species : Hesperia 

 phidias Fabricius, 1793, by original designation. 



Eyes smooth ; vertex and frons clothed with long erect hair ; palpi fairly long, horizontal, 

 widely divergent, second segment clothed below with erect bristles, third segment long, acumin- 

 ate ; antennae slender, a little longer than half the length of the costa, white-annulated, club 



