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



each other, a crescentic mark closing the cell, a series of eight 

 postmedian spots, the first costal spot above that closing the cell, 

 the second shifted far out, third shifted slightly outwards, fourth 

 oblique, fifth and sixth each shifted well inwards, seventh lunular 

 somewhat outwards, eighth on the inner margin well inwards — 

 a black marginal spot in the interspace of veins 2 and 3 with a trace 

 of 3'ellow internal edging, a veiy faint trace of a whitish crenulate 

 line, followed externally by a second less crenulate. 



?. Upperside. Both wings brownish. Primaries with cell and 

 fold pale iridescent bluish, outer discal area somewhat whitish, 

 with very broad posterior brown borders. Secondaries with the basal 

 half of the wings iridescent bluish, the underside marks showing 

 through prominently except the subbasal spots. Underside as in 

 the male, but the ground-colour more pronounced in tone. 



Expanse, J 34-38; ? 42 mm. 



Hah. Mashonaland, 4200 to 4300 feet. 



Type in the British Museum. 



This is a very well-marked species, and it is rather 

 incomprehensible how Aurivillius can have mixed it up 

 with stormsi — a species more than twice its size and very 

 different in many respects. 



Genitalia with the harpagines similar to gigantevs, but propor- 

 tionately broader and except at the very base of fairly even width : 

 the terminal sickle is smaller and shorter and slightly toothed. 

 They have a fair supply of longish stiff bristles at the base on the 

 lower edge, and a less supply on the upper surface in front of the 

 hook ; the shape of the anellus that is attached to the f iirca is more 

 rounded on its front edge than either giganleus or stormsi, both of 

 which are somewhat Avedge- shaped; aedoeagus of moderate length, 

 but of rather narrower width; the cingulum and the tegumen do 

 not call for special remark, but the hook terminating the falces 

 is quite small. 



Androconia of fair size, variable, but the average are slightly 

 tapered proximally to the broader distal end, which is moderately 

 arched, whilst the distal end tapers rapidly into the footstalk; 

 there are about eleven rows of fine reticulations jilaced rather closely 

 together. 



Neochrysops rhodesensae, sp. n. Plates XIII, fig. 5; 

 XVIII, fig. 20 ; XXVII, fig. 20. 



(^. Upperside, both wings pale greyish lavender colour, decidedly 

 less bright than in viashtnia, veins finely black, more prominent 



