762 MR. A. G. BUTLER ON [NoV. 3, 



15. Catochrysops naidina, sp. a. (Plate XLVII. fig. 2.) 



Wings above pale silvery azure, the primaries slighted tinted at 

 the base with green and tlie secondaries with cobalt ; extremities of 

 veins, outer margins, and base of fringes grey-brown ; tips of fringes 

 white ; primaries with a well-defined brown crescent at extremity of 

 discoidal cell ; secondaries with a small blue-speckled black spot 

 ahove the tail and faint indications of other submarginal spots ; body 

 much as usual ; under surface of wings silver-grey ; markings ar- 

 ranged nearly as in C. conguensis of Mabille (Grand. Hist. Mad., 

 Lep. pi. 28. fig. 8^), but with the discocellular lunule and series of 

 discal spots of the primaries black, the three spots of the subbasal 

 series of secondaries and the first and last of the discal series also 

 black, the other spots of the discal series more elongated and with 

 two orange-zoned black spots, with metallic silvery-blue streak, 

 instead of one only towards anal angle ; this species also has a well- 

 defined tail. Expanse of wings 31 millim. 



One male. — Thrupp. 



Although I have compared this with M. Mabille's figure, on 

 account of the similarity in the pattern of the under surface, I am much 

 mistaken if L. conguensis is anything but the ordinary male of L, 

 asopus, of which M. INIabiUe only figures the female. 



16. Catochrysops fumosa, sp. n. 



Above smoky-brown, slightly sprinkled with blue scales at base ; 

 fringe black at base but white externally ; secondaries with three in- 

 distinct golden-ochreous spots, the central one brightest and enclo- 

 sing a black spot edged with lilac scales, near the anal angle ; body 

 brown with cupreous reflections ; wings below stone-grey, marked 

 much as in C. asopus, but the discal series of primaries consisting of 

 only five spots and arranged in an arc ; secondaries with the five 

 spots nearest to the base black, as in the preceding species ; no tail 

 appears to have existed at any time. Expanse of wings 38 millim. 



Two males. — Thrupj). 



We have a Natal species allied to this, but I have not hitherto been 

 successful in identifying it. 



17. Catochrysops lois, sp. n. 



S . Bronze-brown, rather dark, the wings with the interno-basal 

 area broadly lilac ; secondaries with a small black spot just in front 

 of the tail, edged externally with pure wiiite, a second short white 



^ I cauiiot mention this book ■without expressing regret that the beautiful 

 plates should have been entrusted to a Lepidopterist so unskilled as to be unable 

 to tell the sexes of specimens before him ; so that on the same plate (pi. 23) I 

 see the males of two distinct species figured as sexes of " NipnjjJialis" antam- 

 houlou ; on plate tlS a female (Jatopailia (C. rufosparsa) is figured as a male, and 

 (on the same plate) the males of two species, so much aUke that nobody could 

 question their being nearly allied, are jjlaced one in Eronia, the other in Calli- 

 (Iryas. I will say no more here, beyond the fact that a number of Aden species 

 are wrongly introduced, some of them renamed, and the male of one of them 

 figured along ^Yith a Madagascar female belonging to another subgroup of the 

 genus. 



