. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) Entom Supp. GENERA OF AFRICAN LYCAENIDAE â¢23 If as seems possible, it should transpire in the light of further evidence, that muhata and kirbyi become synonyms, the type-species will remain the same. Only its name will be changed. In anticipation of a favourable decision on my application, I am proceeding on the basis that the type-species of Ornipholidotos is 0. kirbyi. Head small ; eyes large and naked ; palpi very small and very short, divergent clothed with scales below ; antennae similar to those of Pentila : thorax short and slender ; a
. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) Entom Supp. GENERA OF AFRICAN LYCAENIDAE â¢23 If as seems possible, it should transpire in the light of further evidence, that muhata and kirbyi become synonyms, the type-species will remain the same. Only its name will be changed. In anticipation of a favourable decision on my application, I am proceeding on the basis that the type-species of Ornipholidotos is 0. kirbyi. Head small ; eyes large and naked ; palpi very small and very short, divergent clothed with scales below ; antennae similar to those of Pentila : thorax short and slender ; abdomen long, swollen in its apical portion, especially in the $. Legs similar to those of Pentila. Wing shape : fore wing not so long as in Pentila : in all the species except 0. paradoxa ri. H. Druce, all four wings are translucent white with costal margin and the apex of the fore wings and the hind margin of all four wings more or less broadly blackish. Wing venation (Text-fig. 235). Cell much elongated, though on the whole slightly shorter than that of Pentila : discocellular shorter than in Pentila. Male genitalia (Text-fig. 12, kirbyi). (See also Hethunc Baker, Trans, ent. Soc. Land. 1914: lv.â fig io, and Stempffcr, 1047. ««â Zool. Bot. afr. 30 : 167, fig. 2). Uncus composed of two long robust arms ; tegumen hood-shaped ; articulated on the vinculum, on the suture there are two large asvmmetrical processes, which are widened and fused distally and are provided with a strong hook ; because of their point of attachment these processes cannot be regarded as subunci ; these peculiar processes are found, though modified in shape, in all the other species of Ornipholidotos that I have studied ; vinculum broad ; there are no distinct articulated valves but only simple expansions of the vinculum which have a spatulate apex^. penis elongate its distal end bent back towards the dorsum, slightly constricted just before the. Please note that these images ar
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