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which is hard to understand, since he had examined their genitalia. In 1943 (Ann. 

 Soc. ent. Fr. 1942 : 131) I suggested that micylus (Text-fig. 207) should be trans- 

 ferred to Thermoniphas. In 1956 (Annls Mus. R. Congo beige 38 : 52) I revised the 

 genus as known at that date and figured the male genitalia of nearly all the species. 

 On the basis of the evidence thus presented, the homogeneity of the genus is clear, 

 and also its affinity to Lepidochrysops and Euchrysops on the one hand and to 

 Oboronia on the other. A remarkable generic character peculiar to the genus 

 Thermoniphas is the presence of the long stout bristles that arise from the apex of 

 the valves. 



List of Species of Thermoniphas 



* Thermoniphas alberici (Uufrane), 1945, Bull. Soc. ent. Belg. 81 : 123. Fig. 



genitalia, Stempffer, 1956. 



* Thermoniphas albocaerula Stempffer, 1956 : 50, fig. and fig. genitalia. 

 Thermoniphas bibundana (Grunberg), 1910. 



*Thermoniphas caerulea Stempffer, 1956 : 49, fig. and fig. genitalia. 

 *Thermoniphas distincta (Talbot), 1935, Entomologist's mon. Mag. 71 : 149. 

 Fig. genitalia, Stempffer, 1956 : 43. 



* Thermoniphas fontainei Stempffer, 1956 : 47, fig. and fig. genitalia. 



* Thermoniphas fumosa Stempffer, 1952, Bull. Soc. ent. Fr. 57 : 119, fig. and fig. 



genitalia. 

 Thermoniphas kamitugensis (Dufrane), 1945, Bull. Annls Soc. ent. Belg. 81 : 

 122. 

 *Thermoniphas kigezi Stempffer, 1956 : 48, and fig. genitalia. 



* Thermoniphas leucocyana Clench, 1961, Ann. Carnegie Mus. 36 ; 56, fig. and 



fig. genitalia. 

 *Thermoniphas micylus micylus (Cramer), 1780. Fig. genitalia, Stempffer, 



1956 : 41. 

 *Thermoniphas micylus colarata (Ungemach), 1932, Mem. Soc. Set. nat. Phys. 



Maroc 32 : 97. Fig. and fig. genitalia, Stempffer, 1956, 42. 



* Thermoniphas plurilimbata plurilimbata Karsch, 1895. 

 *Thermoniphas plurilimbata rutshurensis (Joicey & Talbot), 1921, Bull. Hill 



Mus. Witley 1 : 99. Fig. genitalia, Stempffer, 1956, 40. 

 ^Thermoniphas stempfferi Clench, 1961, I.e. : 52, fig. and fig. genitalia. 

 *Thermoniphas togara togara (Plotz), 1880. Fig. and fig. genitalia, Stempffer, 



1956 : 45- 

 *Thermoniphas togara bugalla Stempffer & Jackson, 1962, Proc. R. ent. Soc. 

 Lond. {B.) 31 : 35. 



Genus OBORONIA Karsch 



Oboronia Karsch, 1893, Berl. ent. Z. 38 : 229. Type-species : Plebeius punctatus Dewitz, 1879 

 (Lycaena elorea Staudinger, Karsch, 1893, nee Papilio elorea Fabricius 1793 ; Obornia 

 staudingeri Hemming i960), selected by Hemming, i960. 



Cupido Schrank (partim) ; Aurivillius, 1898 : 380 ; 1925 : 493. 



