Monograph of the genus Catoehrysops Boisduval. 353 



the insect, and of but moderate Avidth ; cingulum angled in the 

 middle, of moderate dimensions; tegumcn merely a very highly- 

 raised very narrow-ridged half collar, with small wedge-shaped 

 cheeks which have long strong falces; cheeks with plenty of long 

 bristles. 



Androconia of a short squarish broadly oblong shape, almost 

 straight distally, often with a slight central depression, with twelve 

 or thu'teen rows of heavily accentuated reticulations somewhat 

 closely approximated horizontally and very closely vertically. 



Euchrysops albislriatus Capronnier. Plates XII, fig, 12 ; 

 XXIV, fig. 55; XXXI, fig. 55. 



Lycaena albistriatus Capronnier, Bull. Ent. Soc. Belg., 33, 



p. 121 (1889). 

 Ciipido albistnatus Aurivilliiis, Rhop. .^thiop., p. 373, PI. 6, 



fig. 4 (1898). 

 Calochrysops albistriatus Neave, P.Z.S. Lond., p. 57 (1910). 



(j*. Upperside, both wings pale lavender blue with very broad 

 brown borders. Primaries with a dash closing the cell. Secondaries 

 with a black subanal spot edged internally by orange, and with a 

 trace of a terminal row of dark spots. Underside, both wings pale 

 stone grey with somewhat darker markings edged sharply with 

 white. Primaries with a spot closing the cell; postmedian series 

 composed of an unbroken row of six spots, the four upper spots in 

 a slight curve, the two lower slightly oblique ; a subtcrminal row of 

 broadish internervular dashes, and a terminal row of oval spots. 

 Secondaries with the usual four basal black spots which are small, 

 and a fifth small black spot almost at the apex of the wing; the 

 cell is closed by a curved spot ; the postmedian series of six spots 

 is miusually even, the second spot is shifted somewhat outwards, 

 the third to the fifth each slightly inwards, and the sixth slightly 

 outwards ; a subterminal row of internervular lunules edged broadly 

 with subsagittate white marks ; a terminal row of small spots ; a 

 black subanal spot with broad orange internal edging. No tails. 



Expanse, 32-34 mm. 



Hab. Congo ; Sierra Leone {Skinner) ; Uganda (Neave). 

 Type in the Brussels Museum. 



Genitalia. Harpagines short, broadish at the base, somewhat 

 ham-shaped, tapering rapidly to a fine point at the apex, which is 

 Well turned upwards; the lower edge is concave and the upper 

 ehghtly convex longish bristles occupy the basal two-thirds ; anellus 



