Monograjm of the genus Catochryso])s Boisduval, 341 



Genitalia. Harpagines very long, especially so considering the 

 size of the species, with base broadly ovate, tapering rapidly into 

 the long arui-like scleritc, suddenly excised near the apex into a flat - 

 tened sickle-shaped extremity, which is sharply serrate ; the bristles 

 are long and fairly numerous ; anellus with a broadly cone-shaped front 

 margin ; aedoeagus moderately long and broadish ; cingulum broad ; 

 tegumen narrowly ridge-shaped, with rather small cheeks having 

 fine curved bristles and very long fine falces. 



Androconia oval, moderately large, generaUy tapering wider 

 distally so as to be almost fan-shaped, eleven rows of reticulations 

 whose vertical sculpturing is fairly close together. 



Neochiysops naidina Butler. 



Catochryso2)S naidina Butler, P.Z.S. Lond. p. 762, PI. 47, 

 fig. 2 (1885). 



^, Upperside, both wings pale silvery French grey blue with 

 narrow brown margins ; an indistinct anal spot to the posteriors. 

 Underside, pale clear stone grey with dark spots encircled with white. 

 Primaries with a blackish spot closing the cell; the postmedian 

 series of blackish spots consisting of the upper four in a slight even 

 curve, the third being oblique, the fifth spot shifted inwards, the 

 sixth rather outwards; two indefinite marginal rows of dashes, the 

 inner one being sublunular. Secondaries with five black subbasal 

 spots, four somewhat below each other and the fifth, on the costa, 

 seeming to form the first spot of the postmedian series, including 

 which this series consists of seven spots, the six lower ones being 

 liver brown in colour, the second to the fifth spots form an irregular 

 curve, the second and fourth of these are obliquely placed, the 

 sixth spot is shifted inwards, and the seventh very slightly outwards ; 

 the spot closing the cell is liver brown; a submarginal row of pale 

 brown spots in a white area edged inwardly with a lunular brown 

 stripe, which is edged internally with a more or less sagittate white 

 area; two black anal spots, the lower one small, and indefinitely 

 edged above with orange and with iridescent scales. 



Hab. SOMALILAND. 



Type in the British Museum (unique). 

 This is a very distinct little species. 



Neochrysops procera Trimeu. Plates XXII, fig. 48 ; 

 XXX, fig. 48. 



Lycaena inocera Trimen, Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond., p. 125, 

 Plate. 8, figs 3 and 4 (1893). 



