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large footstalk, with t^veIve rows of reticulations placed well apart, 

 but the vertical reticulations are generally rather close together. 



This species is decidedly rare in collections, and it has 

 invariably been called parsimon, bnt, as I have already 

 shown, it is quite impossible for it to be the insect described 

 by Fabricius. I have been unable to trace it from anywhere 

 but Sierra Leone. 



Heochrysops soiwezii sp. n. Plates XIV, fig. 2 ; XX, 

 fig. 36 ; XXIX, fig. 36. 



d\ Upperside, both wings brownish lilac with a pink tinge, in some 

 lights dull lilac colour, with the dash closing the cells rather obscure ; 

 termen narrowly browni. Secondaries with the subanal spot edged 

 internally v.-ith orange. No tails. Underside, both wings whitish 

 grey, witli darker spots and markings encircled A^ith white. Prim- 

 aries with the spot closing the cell subreniform; the postmedian 

 series consisting of six spots, the third oblique, the fifth oblique 

 shifted inwards, sixth largish ; the submarginal row of internervular 

 dashes fairly broad, marginal row more definite, inclined to be sub- 

 hastate. Secondaries Avith four bla,ck spots near the base, three 

 below each other, one shifted inv/ards on the inner margin, a fifth 

 black spot below vein 8 at a thu'd from the apex ; a largish broad 

 indented dash closes the cell; postmedian seiies composed of six 

 large spots, the third large, ovate, slightly oblique, fourth and fifth 

 shifted inwards, sixth outwards ; submarginal row crenulate almost 

 hastate ; marginal row of spots inclined to have the sjjots pomted 

 internally; subanal black marginal spot with metallic blue scales 

 and with a broad internal orange edging, a similar very small sjjot 

 at the anal angle. 



$. Upperside, both wings brown, A^ith the basal three-quarters 

 to the upper margin of the cell lusti'ous violet blue. Secondaries 

 Avith a,Il the underside markings except the black spots showing 

 througli. In the primaries the postmedian series shov/s through 

 indistinctly. Underside primaries with an occasional seventh minute 

 spot below the costa in the postmedian series. Secondaries with an 

 occasional double black spot in the centre of the three. 



Expanse, c^ 51-56 ; $ 47-54 mm. 



Hab. Solwezi Mwengwa, N.W. Rhodesia {H. DoUman) 

 November and December ; Usangu (Tanganyika District), 

 November 1910 {S. A. Neave). 



Types in the Britisli Museum ; co-type in the Oxford 

 Musemii and in my collectior. 



