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Zomba ; Mashonaland, Salisbury (Marshall) ; N'Gamiland 

 (Lugard) ; Natal, Estcourt (Hutchinson) ; Victoria District 

 (Gooch); Cape Colony, Plettenberg Bay (Trimen) ; China; 

 Formosa; India; Ceylon; Java; Australia. Exp. 26- 

 45 mill. 



(14) Chalciope obstans, Wlk. xiv. 1450 (1857). 



Hah. Natal, Estcourt (Hutchinson), Victoria District (Gooch); 

 Cape Colony (Dr. Smith), Capetown. Exp. 36-42 mill. 



(15) Chalciope bivulata, n. sp. 



Head and thorax grey, the head, tegulae, and crest on prothorax 

 with brown lines ; abdomen whitish. Forewing whitish irrorated 

 with pale purplish brown ; the costa irrorated with black, the area 

 below it and the cell finely streaked with brown, the streak on 

 median nervure expanding beyond angle of cell and edged with 

 black ; a black point in middle of cell ; an oblique brown mark from 

 below end of cell to inner margin before middle, its lower side edged 

 with black and angled, the area below it brown, then ochreous 

 towards inner margin ; the outer edge of the grey area has four 

 brown lines before it between vein 6 and 1 and runs from apex very 

 obliquely and sinuously to vein 5, at vein 4 is produced to a long 

 tooth towards termen, then is strongly incurved and excurved 

 above inner margin ; the area beyond it grey-brown, ochreous 

 towards termen with two fine brown lines following the outline of 

 grey area but dentate at veins 4 and 3 and with a series of dentate 

 black marks beyond them ; a subapical black point, three fine lines 

 on termen and one through the cilia. Hindwing with the basal half 

 whitish, the terminal half fuscous brown ; cilia white ; the under 

 side with double discoidal black point ; two indistinct waved post- 

 medial lines and a series of black points just before termen. 



Hah. British East Africa, Kikuyu (Crawshay) ; Natal, Weenen ; 

 Cape Colony, Transkei (Miss F. Barrett). Exp. 36 mill. 



(16) Chalciope metaxantha, n. sp, 



<y . Head and thorax ochreous white irrorated with dark brown ; 

 tarsi black ringed with white ; abdomen ochreous. Forewing 

 ochreous white irrorated with black ; the basal area suffused with 

 brown ; a waved black subbasal line from costa to submedian fold ; 

 a waved black antemedial line obtusely angled below the cell ; the 

 medial area tinged with brown towards costa and inner margin and 



