286 Mr. G. T. Bethune-Baker's 



Neochrysops pephredo Tiimen. Plates XVI, iig. 7; XXVI, 



Lycaena 'pephredo Trimen, S. Afr. Butt., iii, p. 389 (1899). 

 Cupido 2Jephredo Auriviilius, Rhop. Aethiop., p. 378 (1898). 

 Lycaena pephredo Trimen, Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond., 190G, 

 p. 75, PI. V, fig. 12 (1906). 



(J. Upperside, both wings brown of a warm tone witli a slight 

 bronzy tinge, termen finely dark brown, fringes whitish. Under- 

 side, both wings pale hoary brownish grey, with slightly darker 

 markings edged with white. Primaries with a spot closing the cell, 

 followed by the postmedian series composed of five or six spots, 

 the second sjjot shifted outwards, the third and fomih in line with 

 it, fifth shifted inwards, sixth rarely present — in the type male 

 the three upper spots only are present, the submarginal row of 

 internervular dashes mdefinite. Secondaries, with the usual 

 black basal spots obsolete in the tyjie male, but generally present 

 though very small, a fifth quite small black spot placed above the 

 spot closing the cell ; the postmedian series composed of six spots 

 scarcely darker than the grovmd colour, the second shifted far 

 outwards and in a line with the third, fourth and fifth, placed 

 very obliquely inwards, sixth spot shifted outwards, a broad white 

 band which is edged with a sharply crenulate, very irregular darkish 

 brown margin, beyond which in a hoarj^ marginal area is a series of 

 terminal indefinite pale brownish spots. No tails. 



Expanse, <J 40-42 ; $ 40 mm. 



Hab. Natal. 



Types in the Joicey collection. 



Genitalia. Harpagines of but moderate length, somewhat wider 

 at the base, narrowish, concave at its lower margin, straight on the 

 upper margin, gradually excised at a third from the apex into a 

 broad serrated billhook termination ; anellus large, excavated above 

 in front, slightly curved laterally ; aedoeagus short and very broad ; 

 eingulum of moderate length and narrow dimensions; tegumen, 

 a very narrow raised ridge at the rear ; cheeks projecting forwards, 

 unequally wedge-shaped; falces very broad, deejily curved, of 

 moderate length. Harpagines sparsely furnished with strong 

 bristles, cheeks of tegumen with fine bristles. 



Androconia decidedly large, roughly oblong, with rather squarish 

 corners distally, but tapering off to the footstalk proximally, eleven 

 to twelve rows of reticulations placed well apart, sculpturing 

 inclined to be obsolescent. 



