358 Mr. G. T. Bethime-Baker's 



This is a quite unmistakable little species, and from the 

 genitalia should be placed in this section. 



Genitalia. Harpagines with broad spatulate base, suddenly 

 reduced about the middle on the upper and lower margin into a 

 long tongue-like extremity; the bristles are rather stout and are 

 confined to the broad basal portion; anellus well develoj^ed with a 

 waived-front margin ; aedoeagus short and fairly broad ; cingulum 

 short, curved forward, fairly broad; tegumen a very narrow well- 

 raised ridge at the rear, with ample lobe-shaped cheeks having 

 fairly stout and longish falces; the bristles on the cheeks are fine 

 and not abundant. There are no androconia. 



Euchrysops malathana Boisduval. Plates XXV, fig. 60 ; 

 XXXI, fig. 59. 



Lycacna ntalafhaita Boisduval, Faun. Madag., p. 25 (1833). 

 Lycaena asopus Hopffer, Monats. Akad. Wiss. Berlin, p. G42 



(1855); id. Peters, Reise. Mosamb. Ins., p. 410; 



PI. 26, figs. 13-15 (1862). 

 Lycaena kama Trimen, Trans. Ent. Soc. Lend., p. 403 



(1862). 

 Lycaena asopus Trimen, Rhop. Afr. Austr., p. 249 (1866). 

 Lycaena covguensis Mabille, Bull. Soc. Zool. Fr., ii, p. 218 



(1877). 

 Lycaena asopus Trimen, 8. Afr. Butt., ii, p. 16 (1887). 

 Calochrysops asopus Butler, P.Z.S. .Lond., p. 483 (1884); 



id. idem, p. 756 (1885). 

 CoAochrysops conguensis Butler, P.Z.S. Loud., p. 756 (1885). 

 Lycaena malathana Mabille, Hist. Mad. Lep., i, p. 219, 



PI. 28, figs. 5-10 (1885-86). 

 Calochrysops asopus Butler, P.Z.S. Lond., p. 68 (1888); 



id. Karsch, Berlin Ent. Zeit., 38, p. 225 (1893); id. 



Butler, P.Z.S. Lond., p. 842 (1897); id. idem P.Z.S. 



Lond., p. 192 (1898). 

 Cupido tnalathana AuriyillmR, Pthop. Aethiop., p. 373 (1898). 

 Calochrysops malathana Neaye, p. 58 (1910); id. Longstaft', 



Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond., p. 277 (1916). 



S- Upperside, both wings a peculiar sublustrous shade of brownish 

 grey with the finest black linear termen. Primaries with a dark 

 dash closing the cell and an obscure terminal row of internervular 

 dashes. iSecondarics with a terminal row of spots palely encircled 

 and preceded by a subterminal row of lunules, which are edged 

 internally with small Avhite sagittate marks ; a deep black subanal 



