GENERA OF AFRICAN LYCAENIDAE 201 



Wing shape. Fore wing subtriangular, outer margin very slightly convex ; hind wing 

 suboval, a short filiform tail at the end of vein 2, anal angle well marked. 



Wing venation (Text-fig. 322). Fore wing with 11 veins ; 11 confluent with 12 for part of 

 its length. 



Male genitalia (Text-fig. 172). Uncus reniform with rounded lateral angles ; subunci long 

 and slender, bent at two-fifths from base, apex unguiculate (in sitit the subunci are folded back 

 under the uncus) ; tegumen reduced ; vinculum wide above, narrow below ; lower fultura 

 in the form of a furea with two slender curved arms ; valves narrow, long, slightly swollen at 

 the base, apex spatulate with strongly serrated edge ; penis cylindrical, slightly swollen at its 

 base ; apex of uncus and lower edge of valves clothed with many fine hairs. 



The genital armatures of stactalla and cyara are identical, for which reason I 

 regard the former as a subspecies of the latter. The genitalia' of heritsia are of the 

 same type as those of cyara, but the valves are broader and shorter with long sharp 

 apical teeth. The genitalia of chibonotana and heritsia again are identical, the 

 former being a subspecies of the latter. 



The early stages of cyara and heritsia have been described by T. H. E. Jackson 

 {Trans. R. ent. Soc. Lond. 1937 : 228). 



List of Species of Phlyaria 



*Phlyaria cyara cyara (Hewitson), 1876. 



*Phlyaria cyara f. tenuimarginata (Griinberg,) 1908. 



*Phlyaria cyara stactalla Karsch, 1895. Fig. Aurivillius in Scitz, 1924. 



*Phlyaria heritsia heritsia (Hewitson), 1876 (^). 



virgo (Butler), 1896 ($). 

 * Phlyaria heritsia chibonotana (Aurivillius), 1910. Fig. Gabriel, 1939, Ruwen- 

 zori Exp. 

 Phlyaria heritsia intermedia Tite, 1958, Entomologist 91 : 115, fig. 

 Phlyaria virgo (Butler), see heritsia. 



Genus URANOTHAUMA Butler 



Uranothauma Butler, 1895, Proc. zool. Soc. Lond. : 631 ; Pinhev, 1949 : 111 ; Swanepoel, 



IQ 53 : 7^- Type-species : Uranothaiuna crawshayi Butler, by original designation. 

 Cupido Schrank (partim) ; Aurivillius, 1898 ; 359 ; 1924 : 461. 



Eyes densely and shortly pilose ; palpi long, ascending, second segment very long, laterally 

 compressed, clothed below with adpressed white scales and long stiff black bristles, above with 

 black scales, third segment slender, cylindrical ; antennae slender, a little more than half the 

 length of the costa, club well differentiated, flattened ; o* Iore leg. femur clothed with long hair, 

 tibia slightly shorter than the femur, tarsus unsegmented, finely spinose below. 



Wing shape. Fore wing with costa slightly arched, apex slightly rounded, outer margin 

 slightly convex and scalloped, hind wing with costa almost straight, outer margin slightly 

 scalloped, a short triangular tail at the end of vein 2, a small indistinct lobe at the anal angle. 



Wing venation (Text-fig. 323). Fore wing with 11 veins, 10 and 11 free from the upper edge 

 of the cell, the latter being bent towards, and almost touching 12. Androconial scales are 

 present in nearly all the species of Uranothauma, either grouped in a large velvety patch as in 

 crawshayi, or in the form of long internervular rays as in falkensteini. 



