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



extremity; some longish bristles at the base and a fair number on 

 the upper margin around the curved section ; aneUus with a waved 

 front edge ; aedoeagus shortish, rather broad ; cinguhnn long, 

 strongly angled forwards over the harpagines ; tegvimen small, with 

 small cheeks, and long rather na.rrow falces, which have the extremi- 

 ties sharply curved. The bristles on the cheeks are very numerous, 

 fine and longish. 



Androconia very numerous, pomegranate-shaped, but not quite 

 so flat distally, with eleven rows, well apart, of reticulations placed 

 close together vertically; the shape is very fairly uniform and 

 distinctive. 



Neochrysops piebeja Butler. Plates XII, fig. 18 ; XIX, 

 fig. 31; XXVIII, fig. 31. 



Calochrysops plebeia Butler, P.Z.S. Lond., p. 192, PI. 20, 



fig. 2 (1898). 

 Lycaena parsiniori Trimen {in jxirte), S. Afr. Butt., ii, p. 



18 (1887). 

 Ciqndo ceJaeus Aurivillius, Rhop. Aethiop., p. 375 (1898) 



in parte. 



S- Upperside, both wings pale greyish brown, with a few bluish 

 scales at the extreme base; the scales are very thin in substance 

 giving the wings a very slightly diaphanous appearance: the under- 

 side pattern shows through more or less. Fringes bro\vn with paler 

 extremities. Primaries with an indistinct dash closing the cell. 

 Secondaries with a black marginal spot between veins 2 and 3 

 with a trace of blue scales and an orange internal edging. ' Underside^ 

 both Avings pale broAvnish grey, more or less warm in tone, with 

 .slightly darker spots and marks broadly edged with white. 

 Primaries with the cell closed as usual; the postmedian series is 

 composed of six spots, sometimes five, which are more or less con- 

 fluent, the upper three nearly in alignment, the middle one being 

 broken very slightly outwards, the fourth is shifted inwards, the 

 fifth inwards also, and the sixth (sometimes absent) slightly outwards 

 and generally is a small double spot; a marginal row of six 

 lunular spots, preceded by a broad crenulate stripe edged with white 

 on each side. Secondaries with the basal black spot on the inner 

 margin, four black sub-basal spots below each other, the two middle 

 ones being adjacent ; a black spot further out below the costal vein ; 

 a curved dash closes the cell ; the postmedian seiies consists of six 

 spots or i^erhaps I should say seven, as there is a fairly visible trace 

 of a spot above the first oblique oval spot which might be numbered 

 la — it lies between veins 7 and 8, below the apex of the wing-spots 



