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



long bristles ; falces rather large in comparison with the other 

 parts. 



Androconia, a long oval of regular outline, with eight rows, 

 occasionally nine, of reticulations placed well apart ; the sculpturing 

 itself being also well separated vertically. 



Neochrysops puncticilia Trimen. Plate XVI, fig. 9. 



Lycaena puncticilia Trimen, Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond., 

 p. 350 (1883); id. idem S. Afr. Butt., ii, p. 29, PI. 8, 

 fig. 4 (1887). 



Cupido pimcficilia Aurivillius, Rliop. Aethiop., p. 373 (1898). 



(J and 9. Upperside, both wings uniform rufous broAvn, markless, 

 with broMai fringes narrowly tessellated with white. Underside, 

 both wings uniformly bro-wn with darker spots finely edged with 

 white. Primaries Avith the usual spot closing the cell; the post- 

 median series composed of six spots of nearly equal width, which 

 are longer than the breadth ; the series is unbroken and is slightly 

 waived ; the sixth spot is a twin one, a row of terminal short narrow 

 dashes broadly (comparatively) encii-cled with white and edged 

 internally by a series of subsagittate browTi marks with a fine 

 paler internal margin. Secondaries, with the basal spots, usually 

 black, dark brov>Ti, the postmedian series very irregixlar and con- 

 fluent A^-ith the spot closing the cell, first spot oval, second and thud 

 very long and confluent with the two spots in the cell, fourth spot 

 minute, fifth spot very small, shifted inwards, sixth spot very long, 

 seventh much smaJler ; the terminal row precisely as in the primaries. 

 Expanse, S 29-33 ; $ 35 mm. 



Hab. Cape Colony. 



Types in the Joicey collection. ' 



Genitalia. Harpagines shortish, moderately broad at the base, 

 tapering rapidly to the centre, where they are narrow, slightly widening 

 to a quarter from the apex, where they are swollen and suddenly ex- 

 cised into a hooked apex, sparsely furnished with fine bristles ; anelhis 

 with the front edge subcorneal and waived ; aedoeagus of moderately 

 large dimensions; cingulum fairly wide, shortish; tegumen, an 

 exceedingly narrow ridge at the rear (the narrowest in the genus), 

 Avith the cheeks extended forwards and downwards into good-sized 

 lobes with fine long bristles ; falces moderately large. 



Androconia : in the single male specimen I have examined I 

 cannot find any of these scales. 



