Monograph of the yenus Ckitochrysops Boisduval. 287 



Neochrysops methymna Trimen, Plates XII, fig. 3; XVI, 

 fig. 8; XXVI, fig. 8; XXXII, fig. 64. 



Lycaena methymna Trimen, Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond., p. 280 

 (1862) ; id. idem S. Afr. Butt., ii, p. 27 (1887). 



? L. celaeus Trimen, Rhop. Afr. Austr., p. 248 (1866). 



Lycaena methymna Holland, P. U.S. Nat. Mus., xviii, 

 p. 238 (1895). 



Cupido viefhymna AunyiWhis, Ehop. Aethiop., p. 373 (1898). 



o* and $. Upperside, both wings uniform palish brow^n with 

 tessellated white and brown fringes. In fresh specimens from 

 Cape Colony, the tone is often warm reddish brown or bronzy 

 brown, Natal specimens being altogether colder in colour. Under- 

 side, both wings grejdsh broA\Ti v/ith slightly darker markmgs 

 edged with white. Primaries with a fair-sized spot closing the cell ; 

 postmedian series near this spot composed of three or four increasing 

 upper spots, the fourth, long, running into the cell spot, and followed 

 by three lower spots, the first smallish immediately below the 

 fourth, the second and third of the lower series shifted right inward 

 below the cell spot; a more or less confluent submarginal series of 

 dashes; the white edges are generally broad. Secondaries with 

 the basal black spots very small and obsolescent, the one below 

 the costa far out and larger; in the $ these are all sometimes 

 prominent, the spot closing the cell is quite confluent with the post- 

 median series, which is composed of six confluent spots or dashes, 

 the first one a slightly wedge-shaped dash, the second and third 

 very long dashes, fourth very smafl, fifth shifted inwards, small, 

 sixth a longish broad dash ; this series is edged externally by a 

 broad, very irregular white area, a submarginal series of darkish 

 brown subsagittate marks followed by a row of slightly paler 

 terminal spots, a trace of a subanal black spot. 



Expanse, S 33-38 ; $ 42-44 mm. 



Hab. Cape Colony; Kaffirland; Natal; East 

 Africa. 



Types in the Joicey collection. 



Genitalia of very slight dimensions. Harpagines very narrow, 

 wider at the base, concave at the lower margm, convex on the 

 upper margin, termmating in a hooked apex which is bluntly 

 dentate; they are furnished with long, strong bristles; anellus 

 with the front edge well cirrved ; aedoeagus largish, slightly waived ; 

 cingulum very shght, longish, angled forwards; tegumen a narrow 

 ridge, at the extreme rear; cheeks not large, curved forwards with 



