Monograph of (lie gemts Catochrysops Boisduval. 343 



Neoehrysops hypopolia Trimen. Plates XIV, fig. 11 ; 

 XXIII, fig. 49 ; XXX, fig. 49. 



Lycaena hypopolia Trimen, S. Afr. Butt., ii, p. 30 (1887), 

 Cupido hypopolia Aurivilleus, Rhop. Aetliiop., p. 373 (1898). 



cJ. Upperside, both wings of a peculiar dull plumbeous violet 

 with a broadish brown tcrmen, cell closed by a faint dark dash in 

 the primaries only. Secondaries with a subanal yellow spot pupilled 

 with black. Underside, both wings whitish grey with pale brown 

 marks edged with whitish. Primaries with a spot closing the cell ; 

 postmedian series consisting of five spots very evenly placed in a 

 slight curve; a trace of a subterminal internervular row of marks, 

 followed by a much fainter trace of a terminal row. Secondaries 

 with four minute black si3ots near the base, the fourth shifted in- 

 wards on the margin ; the cell is closed by a fair-sized dash ; the post- 

 median series consisting of six spots, the first isolated below, but 

 shifted outwards from, a small black spot below the costa, the 

 second and third large, shifted outwards, forming with the smaller 

 fourth and fifth a series inclined sharply inwards, sixth shifted 

 outwards; a subterminal row of lunular (almost crenulate) interner- 

 vular marks, followed by a faint trace of terminal small spots; a 

 minute black subanal spot with metallic scales and edged inwardly 

 with yellow. 



Expanse, 45-48 mm. 



Hab. Natal; Transvaal; Mashonaland, Umtali, 

 (Dobbie) [B. M.]. 



Types in the Joicey collection. 



There are specimens from the Transvaal in the Joicey 

 collection that Trimen himself refers to that are brown 

 below with the spots of the same colour, but encircled with 

 white ; I have no doubt they are the same species, but they 

 are not as fresh as the type, and it may well be that the 

 whitish scales have rubbed off, as they have every appear- 

 ance in the type specimen of being rather loosely super- 

 imposed scales. 



Gentalia. Harpagines of the long arm-like type, with the base 

 but little wider, tapering gradually towards the apex, which is 

 excised into a broad strong-hooked extremity; the whole length 

 is plentifully supplied with strong bristles; anellus broadly cone- 

 shaped, aedoeagus short and broad ; cingulum long and very narrow ; 

 tegunien a narrowish ridge with lobe-shaped cheeks projecting well 

 forwards, having fine bristles, with the falces long and broadish 

 at the base, 



