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cheeks and strong broad falces shorter than usual. Harpagines 

 and cheeks well supplied with longish bristles. 



Androconia conical, but with the distal half tapering rapidly to 

 an acute apex, stalk long and broadish, twelve rows of reticulations 

 placed rather close together both laterally and vertically. 



Neochrysops arladne Butler. Plates XV, fig. 4 ; XXVI, 

 fig. 4. 



Catochrysops ariadne Butler, P.Z.S. Loncl., p. 193, PI. 



XX, figs. 3, 4 (1898). 

 Cupido ariadne Aurivillius, Rhop. Aetliiop., p. 378 (1898). 



(J. Upperside, both wings violet blue, rather brighter than in 

 N. lacrimosa, with broadish brown termen — no mark at the end 

 of the cells. Underside, both wings brownish grey, very similar 

 in colour to N. niobe, with black spots encircled with white. 

 Primaries with a spot closing the cell, postmedian series composed 

 of five subpjTiform spots, well arched and inclined inwards towards 

 the fold, a trace of a very small spot below the fifth, a series of six 

 white internervular spots, a row of marginal spots of ground-colour 

 edged internally with whitisli lunules. Secondaries almost pre- 

 cisely as in N. niobe but all the pattern emphasised, with a black 

 subanal spot with blue metallic scales, 



$. Upperside, both wings brown with a very restricted dull 

 violet basal area. Secondaries with an indistinct postmedian row 

 of pale violet spots. Otherwise as in the n\ale. 



Expanse, c? and $ 42 mm. 



Hab. Natal. 



Types in the British Museum. 



Genitalia. Harpagines rather narrower than in 7i{obe or lacri- 

 mosa, with the dentate flap having many more teeth of a decidedly 

 smaller size ; the anellus and aedoeagus arc very similar to lacrimosa; 

 the tegumen is decidedly larger, with more ample checks, which are 

 angulated, not rounded ; the falces large and broad, with the hooked 

 extremity much more pronounced. 



Androconia, conical, acute and asymmetrical distally, with a 

 longish taper proximally into the attachment stalk ; eleven rows of 

 reticulations irregular as in iV. 7iiobe, but placed further apart as 

 in N. lacrimosa. 



Neochrysops tantalus Trimen. Plates XV, figs. 5, 5a; 

 XXVI, fig. 5. 



Lycaena tantalus Trimen, S. Afr. Butt., ii, p. 38 (1887). 



