GENERA OF AFRICAN LYCAENIDAE 



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short, ovoid, abruptly swollen ; thorax clothed above with long silky hair and below with 

 close-set white hair ; 5" fore leg with tibia shorter than the femur, tarsus unsegmented, finely 

 spinose below. 



Wing shape. Fore wing apex angular, outer margin slightly convex, inner margin straight ; 

 hind wing oval, produced at the anal angle, outer margin slightly scalloped, a filiform tail at 

 the end of vein lb, a lobe at the anal angle, abdominal margin concave between the lobe and 

 vein ia. 



Wing venation (Text fig. 307). Fore wing with only 10 veins. 



Male genitalia (Text-fig. 151). Incus composed of two lobes with rounded apices, separated 

 b\ the depression in the posterior margin of the tegumen ; subunci long, robust, bent at an 

 acute angle, tapering gradually to the apex, a short apophysis on the lower edge at the bend ; 

 tegumen large, hood-shaped ; vinculum very wide with a short saccus ; no lower fultura ; 

 valves small in relation to the dorsal structures, simple, apical margin serrate, upper margin 

 with a protuberance at the second point of attachment ; penis elongate, swollen at the base 

 and slightly expanded at the apex ; vesica covered with fine cornuti which give it a shagreened 

 appearance ; uncus and distal halves of valves finely pilose. 



The male genitalia of Leptomyrina are quite similar to those of certain Hypolycaena. 

 It seems to me therefore that these two genera ought to be placed close together and 

 not far apart as in Aurivillius' classification, in which Leptomyrina is inserted between 

 the group containing Aphnaens, Spindasis, Axiocerses etc., and the Pluisis group, 

 with which they have no true affinity, at least no more than a resemblance in 

 external facies. 



The male genitalia of L. hirundo, L. boschi and L. sudanica closely resemble those 

 of L. phidias. 



List of Species of Leptomyrina {Leptomyrina) 



*Leptomyrina boschi Strand, 191 1. Fig. Aurivillius in Seitz, 1924. 



Leptomyrina handmani Clifford, 1965, Butt. Malawi : 53, figs. 

 *Leptomyrina hirundo (Wallengren), 1857. Fig- Trimen, 1866. 



Leptomyrina makala Rethune Baker, K)o8. 



Fig. 151. Leptomyrina {Leptomyrina) phidias (Fabricius), <$ genitalia. 



