. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) Entom Supp. GENERA OF AFRICAN LYCAENIDAE "5 Oxylides Hiibner (partim) ; Aurivillius, 1898 : 312 ; 1922 : 380. Eyes naked ; palpi only slightly protruding beyond the frons, second segment laterally compressed and clothed below with aclpressccl scales, third segment slender, acuminate ; antennae slender, about half as long as the costa, white-annulated, club very slightly swollen and with pointed apex ; thorax moderately robust ; abdomen short, clothed ventrally with silky, white hairs ; legs slender, black and white-annulated, $ fore tarsu
. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) Entom Supp. GENERA OF AFRICAN LYCAENIDAE "5 Oxylides Hiibner (partim) ; Aurivillius, 1898 : 312 ; 1922 : 380. Eyes naked ; palpi only slightly protruding beyond the frons, second segment laterally compressed and clothed below with aclpressccl scales, third segment slender, acuminate ; antennae slender, about half as long as the costa, white-annulated, club very slightly swollen and with pointed apex ; thorax moderately robust ; abdomen short, clothed ventrally with silky, white hairs ; legs slender, black and white-annulated, $ fore tarsus unsegmented. Wing shape. Fore wing short and broad, costa very convex, outer margin very convex, inner margin straight ; hind wing outer margin slightly toothed at the end of veins 6, 5 and 4 ; three unequal tails, one each at the ends of veins 3, 2 and ib, the one at vein 2 much longer than the others. Wing venation (Text-fig. 285). lore wing with only 10 veins. Male genitalia (Text-fig. 103). Uncus composed of two subtriangular lobes separated by the depression of the posterior margin of the tegumen ; subunci extremelv robust, only slightly curved, and bearing on the lower edge of its distal third a well marked tooth ; tegumen rather large ; vinculum broad dorsally, narrow ventrally and prolonged to form a long tapering saccus ; lower fultura composed of a small lamella with rounded apex ; valves small, oblong, with slightly spatulate apices ; penis elongate, slightly curved, inner part swollen, outer part tapering gradually ; a few hairs on the uncus and apices of the valves. The male genitalia of bella and gloveri are very similar to those of j'annus. List of Species of Oxylides *Oxylides bella Aurivillius, 1898. *Oxylides faunus fannus (Drury), 1773. hesiodus (Fabricius), 1793. * Oxylides faunus albata (Aurivillius), 1895. feminina Sharpe, 1904. Oxylides faunus ab. $ caerulescens Aurivillius, 1923, Ergebn. 2te D. Zent. Afr. Exp. 1910-11, 1 : 1121. Oxylides feminina Sharp
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