308 Mr. G. T. Betliime-Baker's 



subbasal spots below each other ; the spot in the cell is sometimes a 

 double spot, sometimes a single one, therefore I describe the number 

 as two or three ; a prominent lunule closes the cell ; the postmedian 

 series consists of eight spots of which the upper six form a deep curve, 

 the seventh is shifted well outwards, and the eighth well inwards on 

 vein 1, so as to appear to be part of the series of subbasal spots ; a 

 series of sublunular submarginal marks, that between veins 2 and 

 3 being orange not black and forming the orange internal edging to 

 the black marginal spot between those veins ; it has a narrow exterior 

 edging of metallic scales, a trace of a marginal series of ochreous 

 grey dashes, these are more prominent in the females. 



$. Upperside, both wings brownish with the whole of the discal 

 and three-quarters of the inner marginal areas whitish, having 

 superimposed pale blue lustrous scales ; the cells closed by prominent 

 black spots, and in the secondaries there is a marginal row of spots 

 with crenulate brown internal edging — otherwise like the male. 



Expanse, ^ 48-50 ; ? 48-52 mm. 



Hah. Portuguese East Africa, Foothills North of 

 Mount Chiperone, 2500 feet, November and December; 

 one $ Mlanje, Nyasaland, in January. All Neave's 

 collecting. 



Types in the British Museum, 2 (^ and 4 $. 



This species is very near in general facies to peciiUaris, 

 but is much darker above and can be recognised at once 

 by the pattern of the underside, in which the postmedian 

 series of spots never has the third spot obhque, it being 

 always round and forming in line part of the curve already 

 referred to. 



I dedicate this species to the discoverer of it (Mr. S. A. 

 Neave), whose travels in Africa have done so much to 

 elucidate its insect fauna. 



Genitalia. Harpagines simpler than any of those at present 

 referred to; they are widest nea.r the base, gently ascending in an 

 outward arch and tapering off gradually into an upturned fine 

 point, there being no excavated sickle-shaped extremity, with a 

 plentiful supply of long stiff bristles on the upper side of the terminal 

 half and a more limited supply at the base; the harpagines are 

 rather shorter than usual; the aedoeagus is of moderate length, 

 fairly wide, with the anellus having the front edge less sharply 

 excurved and with a broadly recessed collar ; the tegumen is deeply 

 excised fore and aft, leaving a high narrow saddle-like ridge ; the 

 cheeks being squarish, of moderate size, with large broadish falces 



