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h. (Chalciope) Hind tarsi of male not fringed with hair, 

 a'. Forewing without triangular black patches. 



a^. Forewing with the postmedial line retracted from below vein 2 up 

 to median nervure. 



a3. Forewing with the reniform black bidentate . . . . judicans. 

 1)3. Forewing with the reniform not black. 



a*. Forewing with the postmedial line strongly- 

 angled inwards in discal fold viuhiaria. 



hK Forewing with the postmedial line not angled 



inwards in discal fold undata. 



h'^. Forewing with the postmedial line not retracted to 



median nervure calida. 



h\ Forewing with two large triangular black patches hyppasia. 



(4) Chalciope judicans, Wlk. xv. 1831 (1858). 



Grammodes instdsa, Wllgrn. Wien. Ent. Mon. iv. p. 173 (1860). 



Hah. British East Africa, Kikuyu; British Central Africa, 

 Zomba ; Mashonaland, Salisbury (Marshall) ; Natal, Karkloof 

 (Marshall), Victoria District (Gooch). Exy. 40-46 mill. 



(5) Chalciope mutuaria, Wlk. xiv. 1506 (1857). 

 Bemigia toi-jJida, Wlk. xxxiii. 1013 (1865). 



Hab. British East Africa, Machakos, Kikuyu; British Central 

 Africa, Zomba; Mashonaland, Salisbury (Marshall); Natal, 

 Estcourt (Hutchinson), Karkloof (Marshall), Victoria District 

 (Gooch) ; Cape Colony (Dr. A. Smith). ExiJ. 40-42 mill. 



(6) Chalciope undata, Fabr. Syst. Ent. p. 600 (1775). 

 Noctua arcJiesia, Cram. Pap. Exot. iii. pi. 273, E.G. (1779). 

 Bemigia pellita, Guen. Noct. iii. p. 319 (1852). 



jugalis, Wlk. xiv. 1505 (1857). 

 Hab. West Africa, Sierra Leone, Ashanti, Cameroons, Congo ; 

 British East Africa, Wadelai, Munisu ; British Central Africa, 

 Chinde, Zomba ; Mashonaland, Salisbury (Marshall) ; Natal, 

 Durban (Leigh); Mauritius; Siberia; Japan; China; India, 

 Ceylon, and Burma; Andamans; Nicobars; Java; North 

 Guinea ; Pacific Groups. Exp. 42-54 mill. 



(7) Chalciope calida, n. sp. 



<? . Head, thorax, and abdomen fuscous brown mixed with grey ; 

 anal tuft ochreous. Forewing reddish brown with a purplish tinge 

 and irrorated with black ; an indistinct subbasal line from costa to 

 submedian fold; the antemedial dark line angled outwards on sub- 

 costal and median nervures and vein 1 ; reniform dark brown, small, 



