. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) Entom Supp. GENERA OF AFRICAN LYCAENIDAE 167 clothed with hair, tibia with a dorsal outer spur and two inner apical spines, tarsus stout, unsegmented, clothed with short adpressed hair and bearing below long spines, the apical claw slightly curved ; mid and hind legs very robust, with tibiae shorter than femora, tarsi long and stout, strongly spinose below, the metatarsus very long. Wing shape. Fore wing with apex pointed, outer margin angled at the end of vein 4 ; hind wing oval, produced at the anal angle, outer margin slightly scalloped at
. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) Entom Supp. GENERA OF AFRICAN LYCAENIDAE 167 clothed with hair, tibia with a dorsal outer spur and two inner apical spines, tarsus stout, unsegmented, clothed with short adpressed hair and bearing below long spines, the apical claw slightly curved ; mid and hind legs very robust, with tibiae shorter than femora, tarsi long and stout, strongly spinose below, the metatarsus very long. Wing shape. Fore wing with apex pointed, outer margin angled at the end of vein 4 ; hind wing oval, produced at the anal angle, outer margin slightly scalloped at the ends of the veins, a delicate tail at the end of vein ib, a small, well marked lobe at the anal angle. Wing venation (Text-fig. 306). Fore wing with only 10 veins. Male genitalia (Text-fig. 149, side view of genitalia, right valve removed and other parts in situ ; Text-fig. 150, postero-ventral view of genitalia, parts separated and flattened out) : uncus composed of two oval lobes ; subunci long, much swollen basally, bent in an acute angle, the free branch slender and ending in a widely open claw, the lower edge bearing a short apophysis at the angle ; tegumen lozenge-shaped ; in situ uncus and tegumen together are hood-shaped ; vinculum fairly wide, prolonged to form a short, robust'saccus ; lower fultura composed of two long conical processes bristling with strong spines at the tip ; valves oblong, their upper processes rolled back on to the inner surface and connected in the middle by a thinly sclerotized band which passes above the penis ; penis long and robust, slightly curved, its internal portion swollen ; vesica (exserted in Text-fig. 150) encloses a number of large cornuti ; uncus and upper processes of the valves pilose. In bambana the inferior fultura is formed of two suboval lobes with rounded ends, a character which permits its easy separation from harpax, a species with which it is easily confused if reliance is placed only on the very variable external appe
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