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Show 842 DR. A. G. BUTLER ON [Nov. 16, 34. ALJENA AMAZOULA, Boisd. Tugela Biver, 2500 feet, near Weenen, 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 5th, 6th, and 10th November, 1896. The examples obtained on the 10th were coupled. 35. POLYOMMATUS B.ETICUS, Linn. Frere, 3800 feet, 8th December, 1896. 36. CATOCHRYSOPS ASOPUS, Hopffer. Tugela Biver, 2500 feet, 3rd, 14th, and 15th November, 1896. 37. CATOCHRYSOPS PROCERA, Trimen. 2 , Estcourt, 4000 feet, 17th October, 1896. " So far as I am aware only twelve specimens have ever been taken as yet, and all in this neighbourhood-five by J. M. Hutchinson 13 years ago, on which Trimen founded the species, two by C. W . Morrison, and five by myself this season." 38. CATOCHRYSOPS PARSIMON", Trimen (not Fabricius). 3, Chuga's Hill, near Weenen, 4000 feet, 13th November, 1896. The lilac tint of the upperside is wanting in this species. 39. CATOCHRYSOPS PATRICIA, Trimen. Estcourt, 27th September and 18th October ; Tugela Biver, near Weenen, 28th October, 1st, 3rd, 11th, and 15th November, 1896. I expressed the belief, to Mr. Marshall, that this would prove to be only a form of C. jrarsimon ; but he writes :- " I cannot concur in your opinion that this is conspecific with C. parsimon. Both their habits and distribution differ, and as they are both wet-season species, they cannot be seasonal forms." The males appear to be readily separable, but the females of the two species are so similar that Mr. Marshall himself hesitated respecting one of the specimens forwarded, labelling it C. patricla ? However, his note would settle the matter of the distinctness of the two (which, by the way, I never associated together in the Collection), provided that the C. parsimon of Natal were the same as that of the West coast, which I do not admit: the example sent by Mr. Marshall wants the lilac colouring of the Western insect. The C. parsimon of Trimen certainly is not the Fabrician species, which we only have from Sierra Leone and Lagos. The type referred to by Fabricius himself as in the Banksian collection from Sierra Leone is undoubtedly the female of our Sierra Leone species: it is a faded example, showing but little blue-shot colouring, and therefore Fabricius described it as brown. The diagnosis indeed fairly well fits his type, although the fuller description was probably taken from a male nearer to Trimen's C. parsimon, but immaculate above ; we have such a male from the Scott Elliot collection (Salt Lake to Wawamba). The female type is again indicated at the end of the Fabrician description, " subtus-po>ticae ad basin punctis qulnque atris, annuloalbocinctis "; also-"Variat |
