188 H. STEMPFFER 



Cupidesthes hilarion Hulstaert, 1924, Revue zool. afr. 12 : 129. 

 *Cupidesthes irumu Stempffer, 1948, Revue fr. Ent. 15 : 192, fig. genitalia. 

 *Cupidesthes leonina (Bethune Baker), 1903. 

 *Cupidesthes lit has (H. H. Druce), 1890. Fig. genitalia, Bethune Baker, 1910. 



Cupidesthes mimetica (H. H. Druce), 1910. 



Cupidesthes minor Joicey & Talbot, 1921, Bull. Hill Mus. Witley 1 : 95, fig. 



Cupidesthes paludicola (Holland), 1891. 

 brunneus (Smith & Kirby), 1893, fig. 

 *Cupidesthes paralithas Bethune Baker, 1926, Ann. Mag. nat. Hist. (9) 17 : 399. 

 *Cupidesthes robusta Aurivillius, 1895. Fig. Bethune Baker, 1910. Fig. 



genitalia, Stempffer, 1945, Annls Soc. ent. Fr. 94 : 83. 

 *Cupidesthes thyrsis (Hewitson), 1878. Fig. genitalia, Bethune Baker, 1910. 



Cupidesthes thyrsis $.-f. unicolor (Aurivillius), 1924. 



Cupidesthes vidua Talbot, 1929, Bull. Hill Mus. Witley 3 : 140, fig. 

 ^Cupidesthes voltae voltae (E. Sharpe), 1890. Fig. and fig. genitalia, Bethune 

 Baker, 1910. 



Cupidesthes voltae gabunica (Aurivillius), 1899. 

 *Cupidesthes wilsoni Talbot, 1935, Entomologist' s mon. Mag. 71 : 121, fig. ($) ; 

 1937, Trans. R. ent. Soc. Lond. 86 : 67, fig. (<J). 



Cupidesthes ysobelae Jackson, 1965, I.e. : 530, fig. 



Genus ANT HEN E Doubleday 



Anthene Doubleday, 1847, List Lep. Ins. B.M. 2 : 27 ; Pinhey, 1949 : 108 ; Swanepoel, 

 z 953 : IID - Type-species : Papilio larydas Cramer, designated by Hemming (1935, Trans. 

 R. ent. Soc. Lond. 1935 : 435). 



Lycaenesthes Moore, 1866, Proc. zool. Soc. Lond. 1865 : 773 (partim) ; Aurivillius, 1898 : 345, 

 353 ; 1924 : 435-456 ; Bethune Baker, 1910 : 14, 64 ; Murray, 1935 : 131, 138. 



Pseudoliptena (partim) ; Stempffer, 1946 (see Liptena synonymy). 



Eyes clothed in short but dense hair ; palpi long, ascending, extending far beyond the frons, 

 second segment laterally compressed, third segment long, slender, acuminate ; antennae slender, 

 more than half the length of the costa, with a well differentiated fusiform club ; thorax and 

 abdomen robust ; q* fore leg, femur velvety, tibia shorter than the femur, tarsus unsegmented, 

 finely spinose below ; mid and hind legs, femora velvety, tibiae shorter than the femora, tibiae 

 with two spurs. 



Wing shape. Fore wing with costa evenly curved, apex pointed, outer margin slightly 

 convex ; hind wing oval, apex very slightly angled, outer margin evenly rounded from vein 6 

 to ib, three tufts of short hairs at the ends of vein 3, 2 and ib respectively. 



Wing venation (Text-fig. 318). Fore wing with 11 veins, 10 and 11 free from upper edge 

 of cell. 



Male genitalia (Text-fig. 167). Uncus composed of two small lobes closely fused to the 

 posterior edge of the tegumen on either side of the median depression ; subunci rather short, 

 robust, bent almost at their base and tapering gradually to the apex, tegumen rather large, 

 hood-shaped, vinculum broad with an inconspicuous saccus ; lower fultura (furca) with two 

 wide lanceolate arms ; valves oblong with rounded apices, bearing, at about three-fifths of 

 their length, a long digitate sclerite which ends level with the apex of the valve ; penis robust, 

 very wide in its internal portion, abruptly narrowed in its external portion and ending in a 

 point, uncus clothed with long thick hair, valves almost bare except just at the apices. 



