Monogrcvph of (he genus CalGchrysoj^s Boisduval. 323 



apparently always present, the subterminal row consists of iunules, 

 otherwise it is as in the primaries. In other particulars the female 

 is like the male both on its upper- and underside. 

 Expanse, (J 44-46 ; $ 45-48 mm. 



Hab. AsHANTi; Lagos (B. M.) ; Agkgb {Farquhorson), 

 Oxford Museum. 



Type in the Berlin Museum. 



Butler compared this species, which he named phasma, 

 with both celaeus and pafricia ; the geuitaHa show it to be 

 more nearly related to the former than the latter, whilst 

 the pattern as well as the genitaha show that it is also 

 nearly related to vicloriae, the pattern of the females having 

 obvious and rather unusual similarities. I should rather 

 liken it to a tailed form of synchrematiza B-B., with which 

 it is in colour and pattern somewhat more similar; the 

 colour of the male upperside is almost exactly alike. The 

 prehensores are, however, different. 



Genitalia. Haipagines of moderate length, strongly concave 

 on the lower margin, broader at the base, but gradually diminishing 

 in width until a third from the apex, where it is suddenly excised 

 deeply and terminates in a deepish sickle apex ; the whole harpago 

 is generally furnished with a plentiful supply of longish bristles, 

 which at the base are on the lower margin, but are on the upper 

 margin at the apex. Anellus with cone-shaped front edge ; aedoea- 

 gus not very stout and shortish ; cingulum narrow, of a fair length ; 

 tegumen merely a narrow collar; cheeks of small dimensions, with 

 the front margin nearly vertical and straight ; falces long, decidedly 

 narrow, and terminating in a fine well-curved hook; cheeks with 

 plenty of longish strong bristles. 



Androconia somewhat variable, the general form is a long oval 

 which expands slightly distally, which extremity is well and evenly 

 curved ; the proxim.al extremity is somewhat asymmetrically curved, 

 the footstalk being very frequently not central ; it is not infrequent 

 for them to assume a shape approaching the spherical when the 

 proximal end is symmetrical and the footstalk central. There are 

 generally twelve rows of reticulations, placed well apart. There are 

 other variations whilst a few scales are narrowly elliptical. 



Neochrysops synchrematiza nom. nov. Plates XIV, fig. 1 ; 

 XX, fig. 35; XXIX, fig. 35. 



Lycaena parsimon auctorem {i7i parte). 

 Cupido parsimon Aurivillius, ( ?) Rhop. Aethiop., p. 375 

 (1898). 



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