324 Mr. G. T. Bethime-Baker's 



cJ. Upperside, both wings dull violet blue with the nervules show- 

 ing finely black ; cells closed by a fine blackish dash, which broadens 

 after the specimens have flown much; a variable dark subanal 

 marginal spot, sometimes inconspicuous, sometimes prominent. 

 No tails. Undersurface brownish grey, with spots scarcely darker 

 than the ground-colour, edged broadly with white. Primaries with 

 a large irregular spot closing the cell ; postmedian series composed of 

 six spots, second and third irregular, fifth shifted inwards slightly 

 obliquely, sixth inclined to be reniform ; a submarginal lunulated 

 series with white sagittate inner edging, and a marginal row of six 

 spots. Secondaries with four black spots near the base and one 

 shifted right out above the postmedian series, three below each other 

 and one close to the base on the inner margin ; spot closing the cell 

 large ; postmedian series composed of six spots, the second shifted 

 well outwards, third inwards, fourth smaller inwards, fifth more 

 inwards, and the sixth shifted outwards ; submarginal lunular series 

 edged with Avhite sagittate marks; a marginal row of spots, the 

 subanal one black with a few metallic blue scales on its outer margin 

 and a fair-sized orange spot on its inner edge. 



?. Both wings brown. The primaries suffused with lustrous 

 blue scales over the median and postmedian areas ; a trace of a sub- 

 marginal series of spots. Secondaries with the blue almost confined 

 to the cell, 9.nd a distinct marginal rov/ of spots, otherwise like the 

 male. 



Expanse, ^ 42-46 ; $ 50-53 mm. 



Hub. Sierra Leone. 

 Types in my collection. 



Genitalia. Harpagines, long narrow arm-like processes, rather 

 wider at the base and slightly tapering towards the apex, concave 

 on the lower margin, slightly convex on the upper margin, apex 

 suddenly excised to form a strong broad hooked termination; the 

 whole arm is j)lcntifully furnished with long strongish bristles; 

 anellus with front margin sub-cone-shaped and slightly asymmetrical ; 

 aedoeagus broad, rather short ; cingulum long, of slight dimensions, 

 but strengthened bj^ the central portion of each side being somewhat 

 excised, so as to form an internal sort of collar ; tegurnen raised into 

 a narrow high ridge at the rear, almost wholly excavated, so that 

 the cheeks stand out forwards and are somewhat wedge-shaped; 

 the falces are longish and of moderate dimensions ; the cheeks are 

 well supplied with longish bristles. 



Androconia moderate size, oblong, with distal a^pex excurvcd 

 asymmetrically as a rule, tapering rapidly distally to the somewhat 



