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



Genitalia. Harpagines with oval base tapering into a long arm- 

 like process concave on the lower margin and sliglitly convex at 

 the upper, excised near the tip into a strong sickle-like apex; the 

 bristles are long and strong; anellus highly arched at the front 

 edge; aedoeagus short, of moderate width; cingulum narrow and 

 longish ; tegumen a narrow ridge at the rear with lobe-shaped cheeks 

 produced well forward, having an abundance of long bristles ; falces 

 long, with the apical two-thirds narrow. 



Androconia rather large, of a somewhat broad, oval shape, with 

 the dista,! extremity slightly cotiical, ten or eleven rows of reticulations 

 placed well apart, with the sculpturing faLrly close vertically. 



Neochrysops grahami Trimen. Plates XVI, fig. 14; 

 XXVII, fig. 14. 



Lycaena grahafui Trimen, Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond., p. 123, 



PI. 8, figs. 1, 2 (1893). 

 Cupido grahami Aiirivillius, Rhop. Aethiop., p. 373 (1898). 



^. Upperside, both wings pale fairly bright (not shining) violet 

 blue, with the cells closed by a fine brown line and the termen 

 finely brown. Secondaries with a small black subana,l spot, no 

 tails. Underside, both wings pale dove grey, with darker spots and 

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

 beyond which is the slightly curved postmedian series of six large 

 spots (a very minute one on the costa might make seven, but it is 

 not always present) more or less confluent, but with their edges 

 irregular, followed immediately by the submarginal row of mitre- 

 shaped spots, the upper three being small; a trace of a terminal 

 row of spots. Secondaries with five spots near the base, the upper 

 one dax'k browni, not black, another dark brown one on the costa 

 near the apex: postmedian series, confluent with the spot closing 

 the cell, very irregular, the second spot is long and shifted out- 

 wards, the third and fourth are smaller and are confluent with the 

 cell spot, fifth and sixth larger and irregular, the whole of this series 

 is confluent and is followed by a broad whitish band, which edges 

 internally the sublunular submarginal series that is barely separated 

 by a trace of a fine pale line from the terminal row of largish spots ; 

 a small black subanal black spot with metallic scales. 



$. Upperside, both \vings brown. Primaries with the violet-blue 

 area restricted to just over half the area of the wing, with a largish 

 spot closing the cell. Secondaries with only a few blue scales at 

 the base, otherwise like the male. 



Expanse, c? 40 ; $ 43 mm. 



Hab. Cape Colony; Natal. 



Types in the Joicey collection. 



