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two to four are irregularly in alignment, the fifth spot shifted well 

 inwards, sixth outwards ; a marginal low of semilunular spots, 

 preceded by a crenulato stripe, which is edged on both sides with 

 white, the inner edging being broad and sagittate; a black marginal 

 spot between veins 2 and 3 with metallic-blue scales and a broad 

 orange internal edging ; a fine tail from vein 2. 

 Expanse, c? 48 ; ? 48-50 mm. 



Hah. Natal; Mashonaland; Pondoland ; Rhodesia, 

 South, North-east and West ; Gazaland ; Transvaal. 



Type in the British Museum. 



Trimen speaks of the insect he calls parsimon {I.e.) as 

 having tails in both sexes, it is therefore not parsimon 

 Fabricius. No doubt he had this species before him. 



Genitalia with the harpagines fairly wide at the base, tapering 

 somewhat rapidly into a narrowish arm, concave at its lower margin, 

 nearly straight at the upper margin, suddenly recessed downwards 

 near the tip and recurved into a fair-sized hook at the extremity ; 

 the harpagines are longer and the hook larger than is the case with 

 the next species, iV. imrsimon ; anellus with the front edge cone-shaped ; 

 aedoeagus fairly long to moderately broad; cingulum longish, 

 narrow ; tegumen small with small cheeks ; falces moderately long. 

 Bristles on the harpagines moderately strong and numerous at the 

 base, less numerous in the apical ai-ea. 



Androconia slightly variable, broadly oblong, slightly longer 

 than broad. Evenly and slightly arched distally, more strongly 

 proximally, with twelve fairly closely-placed rows of reticulations. 



Neochrysops parsimon Fabricius. Plates XII, fig. 19; 

 XX, fig. 32 ; XXIX, fig. 32. 



Papilio Plebeius ruralis parsimon Fabricius, Syst. Ent., 



p. 526 (1775) ; id. idem Mantiss Class, vi, p. 77 (1787) ; 



id. idem Ent. Syst., iii, p. 303 (1793). 

 Papilio celaeus Cramer, Pap. Exot., iv, p. 177, PI. 379, 



figs. k,k (1782). 

 Lycaena celaeus Trimen var., Rhop. Afr. Austr., p. 247 



(1866). 

 Cupido celaeus Aurivilliiis {in parte) Rhop. Athiop., p, 375 



(1898). 

 Catochrysops celaeus Neave, P.Z.S. Lond., p. 58 (1910). 



o- Upperside, both wings brown, decidedly more solid in texture 

 than in pleheia, so that the underside pattern does not show through ; 

 the only mark visible is an indefinite blackish marginal spot on the 



