Monograph of the genus Catochrysops Boisduval. 349 



^. Upperside, both wings very dull violaceous with somewhat 

 narrow brown borders. Secondaries with a black subanal spot and 

 a trace of a terminal row of spots. Underside warm brown with very 

 slightly darker spots somewhat palely encircled. Primaries with 

 a spot closing the cell ; the postmedian series composed of six spots 

 not fractured, the upper four in a slight curve, the third being placed 

 obliquely, the fifth and sixth below each other and shifted somewhat 

 inwards; a faint trace of a subterminal series of internervular dashes 

 and of a terminal row of spots. Secondaries with four brown (not 

 black) inconspicuous spots near the base, three below each other 

 and one nearer the base on the inner margin, a darker one beyond the 

 centre of the costa below vein 8 ; a curved spot closes the cell ; the 

 postmedian series is composed of six spots, the first almost isolated, 

 the second shifted well outwards and forming, with the third, fourth 

 and fifth, each of which is shifted inwards, a row of spots inclined 

 strongly basewards, sixth spot shifted outwards, an inconspicuous 

 row of terminal spots with the faintest trace of sagittate slightly 

 paler internal edging, a subanal black spot with metallic-blue scales. 

 No tails, 



$. Upperside, both wings brown with a central patch of violaceous 

 blue scales; otherwise precisely like tlie male. 



These descrijations are taken from the specimens from 

 Natal that are marked " type " in Trimen's writing. They 

 are the dullest and most obscure of the whole group. The 

 colour of the male, however, in other localities is much 

 brighter violet blue, but the underside is unmistakable. 

 In Trimen's plate referred to above the artist has empha- 

 sised the whole of the markings, and especially the white 

 edges, much too strongly; I have seen no Natal specimen 

 with such definite markings. Trimen, in our Transactions, 

 I.e., refers to his figure of the female as a variety that he 

 received from Mr. Feltham from Delagoa Bay; this figure 

 is not, however, dolorosa, but is, I have no doubt, my sub- 

 pallida major. 



Expanse, ^ and 9, 30-32 mm. 



Hab. Natal; Transvaal (Crawshay), in the Brit. 

 Mus. ; UsANGU Region, Tanganyika District (Neave). 

 Types in the Joicey collection. 



Genitalia. Harpagincs rather broad (more so at the base), 

 tapering slowly to beyond the middle, where there is a sudden deep 

 curve downwards, from whence they taper very rapidly into a bold 

 sickle-shaped apex; a fair supply of long bristles for most of the 



