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*Eicochrysops fontainei Stcmpffer, 1961, Annls Mus. R. Afr. cent. 94 : 68, fig. 



and fig. genitalia. 

 *Eicochrysops hippocrates (Fabricius), 1793. Fig. Mabille, 1885-87. 



delicatula (Mabille), 1877. 

 *Eicochrysops mahallakoena mahallakoena (Wallengren), 1857. Fig. Trimen, 



1870. 

 *Eicochrysops mahallakoena trisignatus (Strand), 191 1. 

 *Eicochrysops masai (Bethune Baker), 1905. 

 *Eicochrysops messapus (Godart), 1823. Fig. Aurivillius in Seitz, 1925. 



Eicochrysops messapus f. sebagadis (Guerin), 1847. 

 *Eicochrysops nandianus (Bethune Baker), 1906. 



* Eicochrysops pauliani Stempffer, 1950, Naturaliste malgache 2 : 131, fig. 



* Eicochrysops pus ill us (Ungemach), 1932, Mem. Soc. Set. phys. Nat. Maroc 



32 : 94, 96, fig. 



* Eicochrysops rogersi Bethune Baker, 1924, Ann. Mag. nat. Hist. (9) 14 : 133. 



* Eicochrysops sanguigutta (Mabille), 1879. Fig. Mabille, 1885-7. 



coeruleoarcuatus (Saalmuller), 1884. 

 Eicochrysops sapphirinus (Stoneham), 1938, Bull. Stoneham Mus., No. 36 : 3. 



Genus incertus 



Lycaena scintilla Mabille, 1877, Bull. Soc. ent. Fr. 5 (7) : lxxii. 

 quadriocidaris Saalmuller, 1884. 



Genus CUPIDOPSIS Karsch 



Cupidopsis Karsch, 1895, Eut. With. 21 : 297 ; Pinhey, 1949 : 120 ; Swanepoel, 1953 : I[ 4- 



Type-species : Lycaena iobates Hopffer, by original designation. 

 Cupido Schrank (partim) ; Aurivillius, 1898 : 377 ; 1925 : 489. 

 Lycaena Fabricius (partim) ; Murray, 1935 : 178. 



Eyes smooth ; palpi long, ascending, second segment long, laterally compressed, densely 

 clothed with white adpressed scales, third segment shorter, slender, acuminate ; antennae 

 slender, white-annulated, about half the length of the costa, club clavate, well differentiated, 

 thorax clothed below with long white silky hair ; $ fore leg, femur clothed with white hair, 

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



Wing shape. Fore wing subtriangular, outer margin convex, hind wing oval, with a filiform 

 tail at the end of vein 2. 



Wing venation (Text-fig. 335). Fore wing with only 10 veins. 



Male genitalia (Text-fig. 205). Uncus composed of two small flattened lobes fused to the 

 tegumen on either side of the median concavity, subunci robust, bent at about two-fifths from 

 base, tapering suddenly a little before the apex, which is not hooked ; tegumen large, hood- 

 shaped, vinculum fairly broad with a rounded saccus ; arms of lower fultura slender, strongly 

 recurved ; valves oblong, broadly fused to one another at the base and with rounded apices, 

 their internal lamina bearing a kind of hook-like expansion, with a serrated apical edge ; penis 

 long, robust, slightly curved with a short external portion ; vesica with two long rows of 

 cornuti ; uncus, hook-like expansion and apices of valves, pilose. 



