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XOCTUID.r,. 



779-i. Chalciope cephise. 



Koctua cephise, Cram. Pap. Exot. iii. p. 59, pi. 227. f. C (1779) ; Hnipsn. 



Moths Ind. ii. p. 528. 

 Tri(joiiodes maxima, Guen. Noct. iii. p. 282 (1852). 



S ■ Head, tliorax, and abdomen ofi-eyish ochreous tinged with 

 brown ; palpi and irons dark reddish brown ; antenna; with the 

 shaft vvliitisli above ; pectus and fore and mid femoi-a dark brown, 

 the foi'e tibia; and tarsi wliite. Fore wins: srrevish ochreous ting-ed 

 with brown and shschtlv iiTorated witli black ; a triano'ular black- 

 brown patch defined by white lines in submedian interspace from 

 near base to well beyond middle, its apex at origin of vein 2, 

 separated by an oblique white band from a triangular black-brown 



Fig. G.— C/ialciojic cephise, (^ . 



postmedial patch defined by white lines, its angles at middle of 

 discocellulai-s, on vein 7 towards apex, and on vein 1 near tornus ; 

 a dark shade from apical part of costa and a series of black points 

 on outer edge of the white line defining the outer edge of the post- 

 medial patch ; the termen and cilia dark brown except towards 

 tornus. Hind wing ochreous suft'u.'^ed witli brown ; a dark medial 

 shade from costa to submedian fold, diffused in the cell to near 

 base, separated by a jiale ochreous band from a fuscous black sub- 

 terminal shade, extending to termen on apical area, then narrower 

 and ending at submedian fold where it is produced to a point near 

 termen. Undei'side of fore wing suffused with red-brown except 

 on inner area, the cell and area below and beyond it suffused with 

 black ])artly inten-npted by an obli(pii'ly curved reddish band from 



