342 Mr. CI. T. Bethime-Bakei's 



Ciipido procerus Aimvi\lhis,Jil\o]). Aetliiop., p. 374 (1898). 

 Catochrysops procera Butler, P.Z.S. Lond., p. 842 (1897). 

 Catochrysops jjrocerus Neave, P.Z.S. Lond., p. 57 (1910). 



(^. Upperside, both wings dull violet blue with broadish brown 

 borders. Primaries with a dark luiiule at the end of the cell. 

 Secondaries with a trace of a terminal row of spots. No tails. 

 Underside, both wings clear ash grey ^dth slightly darker spots 

 sharply edged with whitish. Primaries with the cell closed by a 

 lunule; the postmedian series composed of five smallish spots with 

 a dot below the fifth, the five spots are irregular in a slight curve 

 with the third placed obliquely; an ill-defined sul)terminal series 

 of internervular lunules followed by a similar terminal series of 

 oval spots. Secondaries v/ith four black spots near the base, three 

 below each other and one on the inner margin near the base, a fifth 

 black spot below the costa above the lunule closing the cell; post- 

 median series composed of six spots, the first isolated, the second to 

 the fifth in a slight curve inclined basewards, sixth shifted outwards ; 

 a subterminal i-ow of defined interner\ailar lunules preceded by short 

 sagittate white marks and followed by a row of terminal spots; a 

 subbasal small black spot with metallic scales and a faint yellov/ 

 internal edging. 



Expanse, 20 mm. 



Hab. Natal. 



Type in the Joicey collection. 



The female of this species appears to be unknown. 



Genitalia. Harpagines of the long arm-shaped formation, the 

 base being very little wider than the rest of the harpago, which is 

 decidedly wider than usual and is somewhat uneven in outline, at 

 a third from the tip it rapidlj' tapers down narrowly into a bluntly 

 pointed curved apex ; bristles very long and fairly strong along the 

 whole length; anellus produced forward in an irregular front edge; 

 aedoeagus of a fair length, not very broad; cingulum long and of 

 moderate dimensions; tegumen narrowly ridge-sha23ed with cheeks 

 bluntly wedge-shaped produced well forwards with plenty of bristles ; 

 falces long, broad at the base, highly curved. 



Androconia very large, of a long oblong shape with a slight 

 depression in the centre of the distal edge, taj^ering off proximally 

 into the attachment stalk, which is long, with thirteen rows of 

 reticulations whose sculpturing is small and rather far apart 

 vertically. 



