Monograph of the genus Catochrysops Boisduval. 359 



spot edged internally with orange. Underside, both wings pale 

 grey with markings very slightly darker encircled with white. 

 Primaries with a spot closing the cell ; the postmedian series of six 

 oval spots very regular and somewhat waived situated close to the 

 subterminal row of internervular lunules, which is followed by the 

 terminal row of dashes. Secondaries with four subbasal spots below 

 each other, of these the uppermost is generally black, the two in the 

 middle close together, and the lowest, on the inner margin, appearing 

 to belong to the postmedian series are scarcely darker than the 

 ground-colour; a small spot on the inner margin near the base, 

 and a black spot beyond the centre of the costa below vein 8 ; cell 

 closed by a spot; jiostmedian series with the upper spot isolated, 

 the second shifted outwards, the third, fourth and fifth each shifted 

 slightly inwards, but in a slightly oblique alignment, fifth reniform, 

 shifted outwards ; a terminal row of spots preceded by a subterminal 

 row of internervular lunules, these being edged by a series of white 

 sagittate marks, a subanal black spot with bright metallic scaling 

 and edged internally with orange. No tails. 



$ Upperside, both wings lustrous pale blue, quite dull at certain 

 angles of light, but bright lustrous at others, with very broad 

 borders all round; otherwise quite like the male. 



Expanse, tS and $ 34-36 mm. 



Hab. Africa, generally distributed ; Madagascar, Aden. 

 Type in the Oberthiir collection. 



Genitalia. Harpagines broad and short sub -wedge-shaped, ter- 

 minating in a shortish sharp upturned hook ; lower margin with a 

 dense covering of bristles, becoming more dense at the apex ; upper 

 margin with a few long strong bristles; anellus well developed, 

 with a conical front margin ; aedoeagus short and of moderate 

 width; cingulum of but moderate length and of narrow width; 

 tegumen a narrow ridge at the rear with moderately ample cheeks 

 somewhat lobe-shaped, which are very poorly furnished with bristles ; 

 falces of moderate size ; broadly curved. 



Androconia battledore-shaped, with nine rows of reticulations, 

 widely separated, especially so horizontally. 



Euchrysops osiris HopfEer. Plates XXV, fig. 61 ; XXXII, 



fig. 60. 

 Lycaena osiris Hopfier, Monats. Akad. Wiss. Berlin, p. 642 



(1855) ; id. Peters, Reise. Mosamb. Ins., p. 409, PI. 26, 



figs. 11, 12 (1862). 



