Monogm])h of the genus Catoclirysojjs Boisduval. 313 



Cupido lelsea Aiirivillius, Rhop. Aethiop., 380 (1898). 

 Catodiryso'ps f^imosns Butler, P.Z.8. Lond., p. 762 (1885). 

 See also James' Unknown Horn of Afr., p. 239 (1888). 



(^ and 2. Uppersidc, both wings pale l>rown with ])rown fringes 

 edged with whitisli ; the primaries have the cell closed by an indistinct 

 fine darker dash, and the secondaries have a subanal marginal 

 black spot with yellow internal edging. No tails. Underside both 

 wings pale brownish grey with darker marldngs edged with white. 

 Primaries with a spot closing the cell ; the postmedian series variable, 

 in the male type it is composed of four spots, the first below the 

 costa very minute, the other three almost in line ; the submarginal 

 row is absent, and there is only the faintest trace of the terminal 

 series. Secondaries with four black spots near the base, three below 

 each other, and one shifted basewards on the inner margin, a fifth 

 black spot is below the costa near the apex ; a curved mark closes 

 the cell, and is followed by the postmedian series of six spots, the 

 upper five being in an irregular curve, the second spot being shifted 

 outwards, the third and fourth each slightly inwards, the fifth more 

 inwards, the sixth outwards ; a submaiginal lumdar series of inter- 

 nervular lunules edged internally with sub-sagittate white marks, 

 a terminal series of spots entuely encircled with white, a subanal 

 black spot with metallic scales edged internally with orange. 



The number of spots in the postmedian series of the primaries 

 varies; in some specimens the number is four, the lowest being 

 situated above vein 3; in others there are five, the loAvest being 

 above vein 2 ; the size of these spots likewise differs. 



H(d). Cape Colony (Basutoland) ; Somali ; Hope 

 Fountain, S. Rhodesia (Neville Jones). 



Types in the Joicey collection. The tyi)e fumosits Butler, 

 a synonym of this species, is in the British Museum. 



Genitalia. Harpagines oval, tapering into a moderately long 

 arm-like process, concave on its lower margin, straightish on its 

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

 anellus with the front edge erect and waived ; aedoeagus of moderate 

 size and width; cingulum bent deeply forward, of moderate width; 

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

 and drooping downwards with fine bristles ; falces long but otherAvise 

 of moderate dimensions. 



Androconia somewhat variable in size, of a long oblong shape, 

 evenly curved distally, tapering to the footstalk proximally, with 

 nine or ten rows of reticulations, whose sculpturing is placed far 

 apart vertically. 



