Monogra'ph of the genus Catochrysops Boisduval. 297 



Genitalia. Harpagines a narrow arm-like process, wider at the 

 base, but tapering down rapidly, lower margin concave, upper 

 margin convex, tip somewhat excised to form a slightly hooked 

 apex; the bristles are long and strong but few in number; anellus 

 with front edge almost erect; aedoeagus long and of a moderate 

 width; cingulum long, bent forwards, less narrow than usual; 

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

 produced well forward, having a fair supply of fine bristles; falces 

 large and broadish. 



Androconia of two shapes- — one, apple-shaped with the diameter 

 from side to side much longer than the line of axis, with about 

 sixteen rows of reticulations fairly close together, with strongly 

 marked sculpturing placed vertically moderately closelj^ ; the other 

 almost tulip-shaped with twelve or thirteen rows of reticulations 

 similarly placed and sculptured. 



Neoehrysops ortygia Trirnen. Plates XVII, fig. 15; 

 XXVII, fig. 15. 



Lycaena ortygia Trimeu, S. Afr. Butt., ii, p. 26 (1887). 

 Lycaena asteris Trimen {in jJCvrle), Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond., 



p. 361 (1870). 

 Cwpido ortygia Auriviilius, Rhop. Aethiop., p. 373 (1898). 

 Lycaena ortygia Triiaien, Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond., 1906, 



p. 74, PL V, fi.gs. 9, 9a (1906). 



<^. Upperside, both wings pale bright violaceous blue, brighter 

 than in grahami, with Isrown lunules closing the cells, fringes 

 tessellated white and brown. Primaries with termen broadly 

 brown. Secondaries with the termen having a row of six semi- 

 lunular spots, the subanal one being black. Underside, both wmgs 

 cinder brown, with darker spots definitely edged with white. 

 Primaries with a spot closing the cell, followed by the postmedian 

 row of seven spots slightly curved, of v/hich the first below the costa 

 is very small, the rest large, somewhat oval and rather irregular, 

 the submarginal row composed of six reniform spots, the terminal 

 row almost confluent. Secondaries with five prominent blackish 

 spots near the base, four below each other, the two central ones 

 oblique, the fifth near the base on the inner margin, a sixth blackish 

 spot shifted right out nearer the apex; the postmedian series, 

 touching the spot that closes the cell, composed of six oval spots, 

 the second and third shifted outwards, the fourth well inwards, 

 small, the fifth largish, inwards again, the third to the fifth touch 

 the cell spot, sixth shifted outwards reniform and large; the sub- 

 marginal row composed of lunular marks edged internally with 



