322 Mr. G. T. Betliune-Baker's 



variable), with very broad, well-rounded, ample cheeks, with the 

 falces long, strong, and well curved ; the cheeks have a fair supply 

 of bristles at the margins, 



Androconia absent. This is one of the very few species of the 

 genus that has no androconia. 



Neochrysops quassi Karsch. Plates XII, fig. 21 ; XX, 

 fig. 34; XXIX, fig. 34. 



Lycaena quassi Karsch, Ent. Naclir., 21, p. 305 (1895). 

 Lycaena negus, B. E. Zeit., 38, p, 226 (1893). 

 Calochrysops fliasma Butler, Ann. and Mag. N. H., vii, p. 

 290 (1901). 



cJ. Upperside, both wings dull violet -with broad blackish posterior 

 margins, the primaries with a blackish dash closing the cell. 

 Secondaries Avith a deep black spot on the tei'men between veins 2 

 and 3, which is edged above with orange. Underside, both wings 

 brownish cream-colour, with darker brown spots and marks edged 

 with white. Primaries Avith the usual dash closing the cell; a 

 postmedian, almost straight row of seven spots, of which the first 

 below the costa is the smallest; a subterminal row of sublunular 

 marks, followed by the terminal row of broadish internervular dashes ; 

 termen finely brown. Secondaries Avith a black basal spot on the 

 inner margin, followed by three sub-basal black sjjots with a fourth 

 shifted further out below the costal vein ; a pale brown crescent closes 

 the cell; the postmedian row consists of six spots, the first is shifted 

 outwards from and below the fourth black spot, the second further 

 out, the third and fourth slightly inwards, fifth more inwards, the 

 sixth is reniform and is shifted somewhat outwards ; a subterminal 

 lunular row of internervular dashes edged internally broadly with 

 white subsagitta,tc marks; a terminal row of spots with the usual 

 subanal black spot, with a fine blue metallic external edge apd a broad 

 internal orange edge ; termen finely brown. At the extremity of vein 

 2 is a fine tail. 



$. Upperside, both wings brown, with a lustrous violet blue suffu- 

 sion over the basal two-thirds of the Avings, and a tendency to 

 whitish in the postmedian area. Primaries Avith a postmedian roAV 

 of dark spots encircled Avith Avhite — this character is variable, I have 

 one specimen before me with no spot at all, one AA'ith only a trace 

 of them, another with one definite spot, two specimens Avith two spots, 

 and others up to five, but the complete absence of them is rare — a 

 trace of a subterminal row of largish brown spots edged very finely 

 with white externallj^ but broadly internally. Secondaries Avith the 

 spot closing the cell and the postmedian curved row of spots which is 



