280 Mr. G. T. Betliune-Baker's 



at two-thirds from the base, 3 from before the angle, 5 from about 

 the centre of the discocellulars, which are rather prominently 

 V-shaped only in a horizontal position, 7 from behind the upper 

 angle, 8 from 7 from rather beyond its centre, 9 absent, 10 from 

 midway between 11 and the upper angle, 11 from about the middle 

 of the cell, 12 not reaching to the end of the cell and fairly straight. 

 Secondaries : vein 2 from beyond the middle of the cell, 3 from 

 before the lower angle, 5 from about the middle of the V-shaped 

 discocellulars, 7 from the cell before the upper angle, 8 highly arched 

 towards the costa. 



Type Neochrysops parsif^ioti Fabriciiis. 



Fabricius's insect is the earliest described species of the 

 group, and it is essentially typical of the majority of the 

 African species ; I have therefore selected it as the type in 

 honour of this laborious and voluminous Danish naturahst. 



Neochrysops niobe Trimen. Plates XII, fig. 1 ; XV, fig. 2, 

 and XXVI, fig. 2. 



Lycaena niobe Trimen, Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond., p. 282 

 (1862) ; id. idem Ehop. Afr. Austr., p. 253 {in iMfte), 

 PI. 4, fig. 10 (1866); id. idem S. Afr. Butt., ii, p. 36 

 {in jwrte) (1887). 



Cupido niobe Aurivillius, p. 378 {in parte) (1898). 



Catochrysops niobe Butler? ?, P.Z.S. Lond., p. 186 (1898). 



(^. Upperside, both wings dull cupreous violet with no markings, 

 no bar at end of cells, with broad browTi termen. Underside, both 

 wings, dark brownish grey with black spots with jiale edging, a 

 pale greydsh white postmedian stripe beyond the postmedian series 

 of spots. Primaries with a spot closing the cell, the postmedian 

 series composed of six spots, the upper three forming a marked 

 short curve outwards, whilst the lower three are inverted and are 

 curved inwards, the third spot is slightly oval and obliqiie, and the 

 sixth spot below vein 2 is double ; there is a very bare trace of a 

 submarginal and marginal series of slightly darker dashes. Second- 

 aries with all the spots reduced to points or dots, the four near the 

 base just traceable in the position usual to the genus, the post- 

 median series interrupted below the fourth spot, the last spot 

 (very small) on the inner margin distinct, irra,ctically no trace of 

 the marginal and submargmal dashes, a subanal small marginal 

 spot sometimes present. 



9. Upperside, both wings, brown with the basal and median 

 areas violet. Underside as in the male. 



Expanse, (J 34^38; ? 39-42 mm. 



