Monograph of (he genus Catochrysops Bomluval. 351 



advisable to treat them as two species, more especially as 

 the genitalia difEer also. 



Genitalia. Harpagines short, with the base broad from where it 

 gradually tapers to the middle, where it is suddenly depressed at 

 almost right angles and rapidly tapers to a fine apex, which is 

 turned into a short somewhat pickle-shaped termination ; fine bristles 

 occupy most of the length; anellus smallish with a curved front 

 edge ; aedoeagus longish, somewhat narrow ; cingulum bent forward 

 in the middle; teguraen a high collar-like ridge rather wider than 

 in mauensis, with small lobe-shaped cheeks that have long strong 

 falces. 



Androconia of a longish oblong shape, well arched distally and 

 tapering off but little proximally, with nine to twelve rows of 

 reticulations moderately separated horizontally and rather closely 

 approximated verticalh'. In different specimens the androconia 

 are often of different lengths and may be so even from the same 

 wing ; the difference, hovicver, excejit for length, is more apjiarent 

 than real. 



Euchrysops subpallida major, var. nov, 



(?. Upperside, both wings of a richer tone of violet than in 

 subpallida, much larger in size. Underside with the ground-colour 

 warmer in tone than in subpallida, with the encircling cream-colour 

 not white ; whilst in the secondaries the area between the sub- 

 terminal and the postmedian series is not white but merely a row of 

 subsagittate white marks, so that the whole underside looks much 

 less white. 



$. Upperside, both wings broA\ii with the basal and median 

 areas violet blue. 



Expanse, (J and $ 34-36 mm. 



Hab. Nairobi district, Laitokitok, Kbwezi, N.W. 

 Rhodesia; Bedega. 



Type in my collection. 



In the Transactions of the Ent. Soc. London for 1906 at 

 p. 7G Trimen refers to what he considers to be a female 

 variety of dolorosa, which he figm'es on PI. v, fig. 13a. 

 This is without doubt a female of this form. I have put 

 this down as a large form of suhpallida from its close 

 resemblance superficially ; the androconia, however, are 

 very different to typical suhpallida, these being a very long 

 oblong shape, but in the race major they are much shorter 



