360 Mr. G. T. Bethune-Baker's 



Lycaena anubis Snellen, Ent. Tids., p. 21, PI. i, figs. 6-9 



(1872). 

 Lycaena phoa Snellen, I.e., p. 22 (1872). 

 Lycaena pyrrhojys Mabille, Bull. Soc. Zool. Fr., ii, p. 217 



(1877). 

 Lycaena osiris Trimen, S. Afr. Butt., ii, p. 15 (1887). 

 Catochrysops osiris Butler, P.Z.S. Lond., p. 68 (1888). 

 Lycaena osiris Trimen, Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond., p. 127 



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

 Catochrysops osiris Butler, P.Z.S. Lond., p. 692 (1897). 

 Cupido osiris Aurivillius, Rhop. Aethiop., p. 374 (1898). 

 Catochrysops osiris Neave, P.Z.S. Lond., p. 58 (1910). 

 Catochrysops cuprescens E. M. Sharpe, in Neumann, 



Elephant Hunting, p. 442, PI. figs. 3, 3a (1898). 



(J. Upperside, both wings pinkish violaceous lilac colonr — some- 

 times pale violet with very narrow brown borders. Primaries with 

 an obscure grey dash closing the cell. Secondaries with anal and 

 subanal black spots, each having an internal orange edging. With 

 fine tails. Underside, both wings very pale whitish grey with 

 rather darker spots encircled with white. Primaries with a narrow 

 dash closing the cell ; the postmedian series of six narrow spots 

 fairly regular, the spots increasing in length towards the tornus, a 

 narrow termmal continuous row of dashes so as to appear a line, 

 preceded by a broader row of subterminal internervular dashes. 

 Secondaries with three small black spots and a fourth beyond the 

 middle of the costa below vein 8 j a narrow curved dash closes the 

 cell ; the postmedian series of seven spots is fairly even, the second 

 spot is shifted somewhat outwards and forms with spots three, four 

 and five a slightly irregular inward curve, sixth spot shifted well 

 outwards, the seventh (usually the lowermost black spot, but not 

 black in this species) is shifted inwards ; the terminal row of narrow 

 oval spots is preceded by a row of internervular lunules that are 

 broadly edged with white, anal and subanal black spots with metallic 

 scaling and internal edgings of orange. 



$. Variable. Upperside, both wings dark brown with a smaller 

 or larger patch of violet colom', sometimes, however, it is rather 

 lustrous blue, and occasionally very pale. Underside like the male, 

 but with the pattern more strongly accentuated. 



Expanse, ^ 34-38 ; ? 34-39 mm. 



Hab. Africa, very widely spread ; Madagascar. 

 Type in the British Museum. 



I fortunately had the loan of Mabille's type of C. pyrrhops 

 some time ago, and it is only a female of this species. 



