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



The colour of the male is most difficult to describe; it 

 seems to be a. mixture of heliotrope and brown and lilac 

 with a certain admixture of pink ; in a bright light it is a 

 delicate and beautiful colour that shows but little of its 

 delicacy on a dull day. 



Genitalia. Harpagines very long of the usual ham-shaped 

 base with long very narrow arms, slightly excised on their 

 upper margins before the apex, which is turned up into a strong 

 hook with a dentate edge ; the whole harpago is furnished with long 

 strong bristles ; anellus large with the front margin highly conical ; 

 cingulum strongly built but of narrow dimensions ; tcgumen merely 

 a narrow ridge, excised as to its fiont edge, with cheeks of moderate 

 size, somewhat conical in the shape of their lower front apices; 

 falces long and strong with unusually broad basal shoulder pieces; 

 cheeks jDlcntifuUy supplied with long bristles; aedoeagus long, of 

 but moderate width. 



Androconia very variable as between each sjiecimen, large to 

 very large, roundish or ovate to very large oblong; the two East 

 iVfrican (Tanganyika District is the new name, I believe) specimens 

 differ from each other, and these differ from the N.W. Rhodesian 

 Bliccimens ; the roundish scales have eleven to twelve rows of reti- 

 culations placed fairly closely together, with irregular sculpturing; 

 the ovate and oblong ones have geneially eleven rows placed well 

 apart hoiizontally, but vertically the reticulations are moderately 

 close. 



Neochrysops glauca Trimen. Plates XIV, fig. 4 ; XX, 

 fig. 37; XXIX, fig. 37. 



Lycaena glauca Trimen, S. Af. Butt., p. 21 (1887). 

 Cicpido glauca AuriviUius, Rhop. Aethiop., p. 375 (1898). 

 Catochrysops glauca Butler, P.Z.S. Lond., p. 193 (1898). 

 Catochrysojps glauca Neave, P.Z.S. Lond., p. 58 (1910). 

 Lycaena asteris Wallgr., K. Sv. Vet. Akad. Handl., p. 40 

 (1857). [" In parte " all authors.] 



(j*. Upperside, both wings delicate pale silvery blue, with the 

 termen someAvhat broadly brown. Primaries with a blackish- 

 grey lunule closing the cell, not present in the secondaries, which 

 have a black su banal spot bordered above with orange. Underside, 

 both wings whitish gi^ey, with slightly darker spots edged with white. 

 Primaries with a lunular spot closing the cell, followed by the post- 

 median series of six spots, the second and thii-d slightly irregularly 

 placed, the fifth somewhat oblique and shifted inwards, sixth 



