MonograjjJi of the genus Catochrysops Boisduvdl. 331 



instead of having rows of reticulaiions it has fifteen rows of fine 

 ribbing, something between tlic ribbing of tlie ordinary scale and 

 the reticulations of the androconia. 



Neochrysops aethiopia sp. n. Plates XIV, fig. 9; XXI, 

 fig. 40 ; XXIX, fig. 40. 



(J. Upperside, botli wings pale bluish violet with a tinge of lilac. 

 Primaries with a deep black dash closing the cell, and broadish 

 dark termen. Secondaries with a linear black termen preceded 

 by a row of terminal spots, the subanal spot being deep black with 

 orange internal edging Avhich extends into the angle; there is a 

 fine tail from vein 2. Underside, both wings very pale whitish grey 

 with pale brown markings broadly edged with white. Primaries 

 with the usual spot closing the cell ; the postmedian series consisting 

 of six spots nearly vertical, the third spot slightly oblique, the 

 fifth and sixth shifted slightly inwards; there is also a trace 

 of a minute spot below the costa; the submarginal series consisting 

 of five almost confluent subhastate internervular marks, together 

 with a sixth that is shifted somewhat inwards, a terminal somewhat 

 similar stripe with its outer margin straight (not hastate). Second- 

 aries with four black spots near the base, three below each other 

 well separated, and one near the base on the inner margin; a fifth 

 black spot below vein 8, at a third from the apex ; a fair-sized dash 

 closes the cell, followed by the postmedian series consisting of six 

 spots, the first isolated and oblique, the second to the fourth touching 

 each other and inclined inwards in a slight curve, the bottom one 

 of the curve shifted inwards, the sixth spot shifted outwards ; the 

 internervular marks composing the submarginal row are conical in 

 shape; a terminal row of four spots followed by the subanal black 

 spot with blue metallic scales and an internal orange edging, of 

 which there is a small trace in the anal angle itself. 



$. Upperside, both wings brown with the basal three-fifths 

 suffused with violet-blue scales up to the middle of the cell ; other- 

 wise as in the male. 



Expanse, J" and $ 50 mm. 



Hah. cJ(^ Portuguese East Africa (Kola Valley and 

 Mt. Chiperone), 1700 to 2500 feet {Neave) ; Boma District, 

 East Africa ; $ near AVeenen, Natal, 2500 feet {Marshall). 



Type (^ in the National Collection (five specimens), 

 $ in the Hope Collection, Oxford. 



The dates of capture of the four specimens are respectively, 



