Monograph of the genus Catochrgsojys Boisduval. 293 



3' Ui^persido, both wings brilliant pale violaceous lustrous blue 

 with fine dark termen. Primaries with a linear dash closing the 

 cell. Secondaries with a subanal black marginal spot with a trace 

 of orange internal edging; fine blacldsh tails. Underside, both 

 wings pale broiraish grey Avith prominent coffee-brown markings 

 broadly edged mth white. Primaries witli a reniform spot closing 

 the cell; the postmedian series nearly erect, slightly irregular and 

 composed of six broad spots, the lowest one being smallish; this 

 series is broadly edged externally with white, and is directly followed 

 by the submarginal row of six reniform spots, a marginal row of 

 broadish dashes more or less confluent. Secondaries, with five small 

 black spots near the base, four below each other, the two middle 

 ones being shifted slightly inwards, and one on the inner margin 

 nearer the base, a sixth larger black spot is in the middle of the 

 costa below vein 8; the postmedian very irregular series is con- 

 fluent with the spot closing the cell, and is composed of six spots 

 or broad dashes, the second and thii'd very long confluent with 

 the cell spot, the fourth small narrow wedge-shaped, fifth larger 

 shifted inwards, seventh irregular shifted slightly outwards; a 

 broad band of white follows; a series of eight large irregular sub- 

 marginal spots, the eighth very small on the iimer margin between 

 veins 1 and la; a marginal series of five smallish spots in a white 

 area; a subanal black spot Math blue metallic scales and a trace 

 of a similar smaller anal one. 



$. Upperside, both Avings browii with the basal two-thii-ds of the 

 Aving up to the upper margin of the cell bright violet blue — otherAvise 

 as in the male. 



Expanse, (J 40-45; 2 45 mm. 



Hah. Cape Colony; Natal; KArFiRLANC. 



Type Paris Museum ? ?. 



This is the species that Trimen described as caffrariae, 

 as he considered another closely alHed insect to be asteris 

 of Godart. A reference, however, to that author's descrip- 

 tion shows quite definitely that Trimen misidentified 

 Godart's species. I therefore transcribe the original 

 description. 



" 137. Polyommate Asteris. 



" Pohjommatus Asteris. 



" Polialis supra argenteo-violaceis, nitidis, limbo fusco : posticis 

 subtus obscure cinereis, punctis sex baseos ocellaribus nigi'is, 

 fascia disci crenata alba oeellisque tribus anguli ani caeruleo- 

 argenteis. 



