Monogra2)h of tJie genus Catochrysops Boisduval. 333 



inwards and the sixth, subroniform, is sliifted outwards; the sub- 

 marginal stripe is lunular and is more definite than usual; the 

 marginal row of spots is very broadly edged with white ; the sub- 

 anal black spot has metallic blue scales and is edged internally 

 with orange, there being a minute repetition of this in the angle. 

 Expanse, $ 48-54 mm. 



Hab. Nyasaland, Mlanje and near Lake Chilwa (Neave) ; 

 both taken in January. 



Type in the British Museum. Two specimens. 



I was at first unable to satisfy myself whether or not 

 this was a dimorphic form of the female of the preceding 

 species aelhiopia, but the unusually marked and strongly 

 contrasted underside, coupled with more knowledge of 

 the variation of the genus, makes me sure that it is the 

 female to a new species whose male has yet to be discovered ; 

 but under any circumstances the form is so w^ell marked 

 and so unusual on its underside that it v/ell deserves to l)e 

 named. 



Neochrysops patricia Trimen. Plates XIV, fig. 7 ; XXI, 

 fig. 42 ; XXIX, fig. 42. 



Li/caena patricia Trimen, S. Afr. Butt., ii, p. 20 (1887). 

 L. asteris {in parte) Wallgr., Rhop. Cafi'r., p. 40 (1857). 

 L. eelaeus {in parte) Trimen, Rhop. Afr. Austr., p. 247 (1866). 

 L. parsimon Wallgr., Ofvers. Vet. Akad. Forhandl., 3, 1. 



p. 88 (1875). 

 CatocJmjsops patricia Butler, P.Z.S. Lond., p. 192 (1898); 



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

 Cu2yidG j^aft'icia Aurivillius, Rhop. Aethiop. p., 374 (1898). 



cJ. Upperside, both A\'ings pale violet colour v/ith narrow brown 

 margins. Primaries with a narrowish dash closing the cell. Second- 

 aries with a subanal black spot edged internally with orange, and 

 a fine tail from vein 2. Underside, both v/ings pale brownish grey 

 with somev/hat darker spots edged with white. Primaries with 

 the spot closing the cell; the postmedian series of six spots has 

 the upper four in a slight curve, whilst the fifth and sixth spots are 

 shifted inwards; the submarginal row of internervular marks is 

 broad and more or less confluent ; the terminal stripe is a series of 

 more or less confluent spots. Secondaries with four black spots 

 near the base, three belov/ each other and one nearer the base on 

 the inner margin, a fifth black spot is beyond the middle below 

 vein 8 ; an oval spot closes the cell ; the postmedian series is com- 



