Monograph of the genus Catochrysops Boisduval. 357 



.sujiply of bristles both fore and aft ; anellus a simple ring ; aedoeagus 

 short, moderately broad; cinguhun curved forwards, rather short 

 and of moderate width; tegumen a high narrow-ridged collar with 

 ample cheeks well supplied v/ith bristles, and with long falccs. 



Androconia small, variable, mostly roundish with long attachment 

 stalks, but many varying almost to oltlong; eight or nine rows of 

 reticulations v/hose sculjituring is deep and strongly accentuated ; 

 the rows are placed well apart, but the reticulations are fairly close 

 vertically. 



Euchrysops kabrosae B.-B. Plates XII, fig. 11 ; XXIV, 

 fig. 59. 



Calochn/sops labrosae Bethune-Baker, Ann. and Mag. N.H., 

 p. 107 (1906). 



(^. Upperside, both wings cigar brown with greyish fringes. 

 Primaries with a trace of a dash closing the cell. Secondaries with 

 a large orange patch occupying a considerable area in the anal 

 area, in which there is a small black subanal spot. Underside, 

 both wings brownish grey with black and brown spots and marks 

 edged with white. Primaries with a black s]X)t closing the cell; 

 the postmedian series of five black spots is arrangetl in an even 

 curve inclined more basewards at the lower spots; an obscure 

 subterminal vow of interiiervular dashes followed by a similar 

 terminal row of spots. Secondaries with the usual four basal black 

 spots, which are very small, and a fifth black spot beyond the 

 midelle below vein 8; the postmedian series of six spots the sanie 

 colour as the ground, has the second spot shifted outwards, the 

 third larger, shifted inwards, the fourth very small, inwards again, 

 ami the fifth yet further inwards, sixth slightly outwards; a sub- 

 terminal ]'ow of lunules edged internally by sagitta.te Avhite marks 

 and followeel liy the terminal row of spots; a subanal black spot 

 almost surrounded with orange. 



9. Like the male in all respects above and below. 



The type female described from a unique specimen taken 

 at Kabros has the underside decidedly paler than the 

 N'joro specimens and is larger in size, otherwise it is 

 precisely like the male now described for the first time. 



Expanse, ^ 26-28 ; ? 26-30 mm. 



Hub. Kabros, N'joro, B.E.A. {Jackson). 

 Types in my collection, three ^ and 2 $• 



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