Monograph of the genus Catochrysops Boisduval. 281 



Hab. Knysna, Cape Colony. 

 Types in the Joicey collection. 



An exceedingly rare and local species at present only 

 recorded from Knysna. 



Genitalia very broad and of moderate length, somewhat curved 

 above and below, at a tliird from the apex it is reduced and the tip 

 is folded over into a very broad i-ounded dentate lobe, knobbed on 

 its upper margin; the teeth are strong, but are smaller and more 

 numerous than in lacrimosa; furca broadish, highly cm-ved, with 

 the anellus but slightly developed; aedoeagus longish tapering 

 gradually towards the tip; apex hooked with two large strong 

 teeth at a fifth from the end; cingulum broad, somewhat angled; 

 tegumen, a very narrow elevated ridge at the extreme rear, with 

 the cheeks produced v/ell forwards, somewhat lobe-shaped, with 

 numerous longish, straight bristles; falces broad and strong, of 

 but moderate length. 



Androconia slightly variable in size, pyriform, asymmetrical, 

 subconical distally; footstalk broad and long, asymmetrical proxi- 

 mally, usually with fourteen rows of reticulations very closely 

 appressed and irregular, being slightly twisted, and so close vertically 

 as to almost appear to be ribbed; in the larger sized androconia 

 there are two or three more reticulated rows. 



Neochrysops lacrimosa, sp. n. Plates XII, fig. 2 ; XV. 

 fig. 3, and XXVI, fig. 3. 

 Lycaena niobe Trimen (in parte), Rhop. Afr. Austr., p. 253, 

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

 {in parte) (1887). 

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

 Cupido 7iiobe Aurivillius, p. 378 {in parte) (1898). 



^. Upperside, both wings dull violet colour, rather pale and 

 slightly iridescent, with narrow brown termen and without spots 

 at the end of the cells. Underside, both wings pale grey, with black 

 spots edged with white. Primaries v/ith a sublunular dash closing 

 the cell; the postmedian curved series composed of six spots, the 

 third placed obliquelj^ the sixth minute ; an indefinite row of sub- 

 marginal, internervular lunules preceded by a broadish, whitish 

 area, and a trace of a terminal row of similar half-moons. Second- 

 aries, all the spots very small, four minute dots near the base, three 

 below each other and one on the inner margin close to the base, 

 a fine dash closes the cell ; the postmedian series consists of eight 

 spots, the first below vein 8, the second to the sixth arranged in a 



