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Lepidochrysops ringa Tite, 1959, Entomologist 92 : 163, fig. 

 Lepidochrysops ruthica Pennington, 1953,/. ent. Soc. sth.Afr. 16 : 107, fig. 



* Lepidochrysops skotios (H. H. Drucc), 1905. Fig. genitalia, Bethune Baker, 



1923. 

 orontius Hulstaert, 1924 ; brabo (Hulstaert), 1924. 



* Lepidochrysops solwezi (Bethune Baker), 1923, fig. and fig. genitalia. 



* Lepidochrysops stormsi (Ribbe), 1892. Fig. Aurivillius, 1898. Fig. genitalia, 



Bethune Baker, 1923. 



* Lepidochrysops subvariegata Talbot, 1935, Entomologist's num. Mag- 71 : 150, 



fig- 

 Lepidochrysops swanepoeli Pennington, 1948,/. ent. Soc. sth. Afr. 11 : 164, fig. 

 Lepidochrysops sylvius (Hulstaert), see synchrematiza. 

 * Lepidochrysops synchrematiza (Bethune Baker), 1923. Fig. and fig. genitalia 

 sylvius (Hulstaert), 1924. 



* Lepidochrysops tantalus (Trimen), 1887. Fig. Trimen, 1906. Fig. genitalia, 



Bethune Baker, 1923. 

 Lepidochrysops theodota (Hulstaert), see cinerea. 



* Lepidochrysops trimeni (Bethune Baker), 1923, fig. and fig. genitalia. 



celacus (Trimen) (in parte). 



* Lepidochrysops vansoni Swanepoel, 1949,7. ent - S° c - si ^- Afr. 12 : 123, fig. 

 Lepidochrysops variegata (Bethune Baker), see neonegits. 

 Lepidochrysops vera Tite, 1961, Entomologist 94 : 25, fig. 



^Lepidochrysops victoriae victoriae (Karsch), 1895. Fig. H. H. Druce, 1910. 

 Fig. genitalia, Bethune Baker, K)23. 

 acholi (Bethune Baker), 1906. 



* Lepidochrysops victoriae vansomereni Stempffer, 1951, Bull. Soc. ent. Fr. 56 : 



69. 

 *Lepidochrysops violetta Pinhey, 1945, Proc. Trans. Rhod. scient. Assoc. 40 : 66, 



fig- 

 Lepidochrysops wykehami Tite, 1964, Entomologist 97 : 5, fig. and fig. genitalia. 



Genus EUCHRYSOPS Butler 



Euchrysops Butler, 1900, Entomologist 33 : 1 ; Pinhey, 1949 : 118 ; Swanepoel, 1953 : 113, 

 114. Type-species : Hcsperia cnejus Fabricius (Indo-Malavan species) by original desig- 

 nation. 



Cupido Schrank (partim) ; Aurivillius, 1898 : 373 ; 1925 : 473, 483, 484. 



Lycaena Fabricius (partim) ; Murray, 1935 : 165, 167, 169, 170. 



Eyes glabrous ; palpi long, ascending, second segment laterally compressed clothed below 

 with long white scales, third segment short, acuminate ; antennae slender, about half the 

 length of the costa, club elongate, gradually swollen, clavate ; thorax clothed below with white 

 silky hair ; <J fore leg, femur clothed with white hair, tibia shorter than femur, tarsus un- 

 segmented. 



Wing shape. Fore wing subtriangular ; hind wing oval, a very short linear tail at the end 

 of vein 2, anal angle rounded. 



Wing venation (Text-fig. 333). Fore wing with 11 veins. 



