320 Mr. G. T. Betlmne-Baker's 



that Fabricius and 8toll described the same species, and in 

 this I am glad to follow the lead given by Trimen in both 

 his works (I.e.), for though he confused the species and 

 thought that parsimon was blue, yet he recognised that the 

 descriptions of the two early authors referred to the same 

 species, which no doubt made him (Trimen) consider, in 

 his earlier work, that the brown species was a variety of the 

 blue, but he never realised that true parsimon had no tails. 

 I come therefore to the conclusion that parsimon and celaeus 

 are brown, and that they have five black spots at the base 

 of the secondaries, and that neither has a tail, and I find 

 that in recently arranged collections the species has been 

 named celaeus, though in many the blue and brown have 

 been mixed together. Stoll's name will therefore have to 

 sink to parsimon Fabricius, who has seven years priority ; 

 therefore the blue species, commonly called parsimon, is 

 left without a name, for which I suggest synchrcmatiza 

 (Greek o-ui';^/9?7^taTt^a), mentioned together with). 



Genitalia with harpagines subovato at the base, tapering to a 

 moderately even narrower arm, concave at its lower margin, but 

 curved downwards suddenly near the tip and shortly recurved into a 

 small hook at the apex; the bristles are fine and are not very 

 abundant; anellus bluntly cone-shaped; aedoeagus of moderate 

 length and width; tegumen smallish, very deeply excised, with 

 fair-sized cheeks ; falces strong of moderate length. 



Androconia sliglitly variable, but the general shape is somewhat 

 fan-shaped, broader than long, \c\-j slightly expanding distally, 

 with the distal edge moderately arched, with eleven rows of reticu- 

 lations placed fairly closely together vertically. 



Neochrysops victoriae Karsch. Plates XII, fig. 20; XX, 



fig. 33. 



Lycaena victoriae Karsch, Ent. Nachr., 21, j). 300 (1895). 

 Cupido victoriae Aurivillius, Rhop. Ethiop., p. 374 (1898). 

 Catochrysops acholi Bethune-Baker, Ann. and Mag. N. H., 



xvii, p. 107 (1906). 

 Cupido victoriae Uruce, Illust. Afr. Lye, p. 19, PL viii, 



figs. 2, 2a (1910). 



(^. Upperside, both wings uniform darkish brown, quite markless, 

 with the one exception that in the secondaries between veins 2 and 3 

 there is a black marginal spot broadlj^ edged internally with deep 

 yellow. No tails. Underside, both wings ashen grey with spots 



