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Show 762 MR. A. G. BUTLER ON [Nov. 3, 15. C A T O C H R Y S O P S NAIDINA, sp. n. (Plate XLVII. fig. 2.) Wings above pale silvery azure, the primaries slighted tinted at the base with green and the 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 arranged nearly as in C. conguensis of Mabille (Grand. Hist. Mad., Lep. pi. 28. fig. 81), 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 . Mabille 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 indistinct golden-ochreous spots, the central one brightest and enclosing 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.-Thrupp. W e have a Natal species allied to this, hut I have not hitherto been successful in identifying it. 17- CATOCHRYSOPS LOIS, sp. n. cS . 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 white, a second short white 1 I cannot 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 " Nymphalis" antam-boulou ; on plate 38 a female Catopsilia {C. rufosparsa) is figured as a male, and (on the same plate) the males of two species, so much alike that nobody could question their being nearly allied, are placed one in Eronia, the other in Callidryas. 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 with a Madagascar female belonging to another subgroup of the genus. |