. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) Entom Supp. GENERA OF AFRICAN LYCAENIDAE List of Species of Argyrocheila *Argyrocheila bitje Bethune Baker, 1915, Ann. Mag. nat. Hist. (8) 16 : 187. * Argyrocheila inundifera Hawker Smith, 1933, Stylops 2 : 10. * Argyrocheila undifera undifera Staudinger, 1891. * Argyrocheila undifera ugandae Hawker Smith, 1933, Stylops 2 : 10. 67 Genus AS L AUG A Kirby Aslauga Kirby, 1890, Ann. Mag. nat. Hist. (6) 6 : 261 ; Aurivillius, 1898 : 284 ; 1920 : 341 (pro parte) ; Bethune Baker, 1924 : 208. Type-species : Aslauga marginalis Kirby, 1890 (Liphyra vini
. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) Entom Supp. GENERA OF AFRICAN LYCAENIDAE List of Species of Argyrocheila *Argyrocheila bitje Bethune Baker, 1915, Ann. Mag. nat. Hist. (8) 16 : 187. * Argyrocheila inundifera Hawker Smith, 1933, Stylops 2 : 10. * Argyrocheila undifera undifera Staudinger, 1891. * Argyrocheila undifera ugandae Hawker Smith, 1933, Stylops 2 : 10. 67 Genus AS L AUG A Kirby Aslauga Kirby, 1890, Ann. Mag. nat. Hist. (6) 6 : 261 ; Aurivillius, 1898 : 284 ; 1920 : 341 (pro parte) ; Bethune Baker, 1924 : 208. Type-species : Aslauga marginalis Kirby, 1890 (Liphyra vininga Hevvitson, 1875), by selection by Bethune Baker. 1924, Trans, ent. Soc. London 1924 : 209. Eyes naked ; palpi divergent, obliquely erect, clothed with adpressed scales, third segment fairly long ; antennae short and thick, segments not much longer than broad, club rounded ; cJ fore tarsus composed of five distinct segments, with two claws on terminal segment, as in the $. Wing shape : shape peculiar ; fore wing slightly falcate, outer margin excised at extremity of vein 6, strongly convex at the extremities of veins 4 and 3 ; hind wing with anal margin concave between the ends of veins ia and ib, outer margin concave between ib and 4, thus forming a blunt tooth at the end of ib and an angle at the end of 4. Wing venation (Text-fig. 252). Male genitalia (Text-fig. 66). Dorsal elements small in relation to the other parts of the genitalia ; uncus deeply excised at the apex; no subunci ; tegumen with a median rounded protuberance on the anterior edge ; vinculum very narrow, prolonged to form a strong saccus ; lower fultura composed of two large triangular lobes with pointed apex ; valves elliptical, their lower process short, upper process ending in a long, strong hook ; penis massive, subcylindrical, tapering slightly in its external portion ; vesica armed with numerous cornuti and strong spines ; uncus and apices of valves pilose. Aslauga lamborni (Text-fig. 67). The genital
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