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vein 6 to above inner margin, met at vein 6 by an oblique diffused 

 black fascia from apex, its outer edge tlien defined by small dentate 

 black marks, the mark above inner margin diffused to tornus ; a 

 tine blackish terminal line. Hind wing grey-brown with a broad 

 diffused fuscous subterminal shade, a fine black terminal line ; the 

 underside grey-brown tinged with fuscous. 



Hah. ISI.E. K,HODESiA, E. Luangwa Distr., Petauke {Neave), 

 1 $ type, Selukwe {Short), 1 (S . JExp. 44 millim. 



Genus CHALCIOPE. 



Type. 



Ckalciope, Hiibn. Verz. p. 268 (1827) cephise. 



2>y'o??o^cs, Griien. Noct. iii. p. 281 (J852) cephise. 



Proboscis fully developed; palpi upturned, the 2nd joint reaching to vertex 

 of head and moderately scaled, the '6\-A moderate and fringed with scales in 

 front; frons smooth, with tuft of hair above; eyes large, round; antennae of 

 male typically ciliated ; thorax clothed witti hair and scales mixed and without 

 crests ; fore tibije of male fringed with long hair on outer side, tlie mid and 

 hind tibise with long hair on inner side, the fore tibist not spined, the mid and 

 hind tibice spined ; abdomen smoothly scaled and without crests. Fore wing 

 with the apex somewhat produced and acute, the termen oblique and slightly 

 crenulate ; veins 3 and 6 from near angle of cell ; 6 from upper angle ; 9 from 

 10 anastomosing with 8 to form the areole ; 11 from cell; male with the 

 cell and area just below it on underside clothed with rough hair. Hind wing 

 with the cell about one-tliird length of wing ; veins Sand 4 from angle of cell ; 

 5 fully developed from just above angle; 6, 7 from upper angle; 8 anasto- 

 mosing with the cell near base only ; male with the basal area on underside 

 clothed with rough hair. 



Sect. I. Anlennte of male dilated into a knot fringed with hair above just 

 before middle, then bipectinate to near apex. 



7791. Chalciope disjuncta. 



Chalciope disjuncta, Moore, Lep. Atk. p. 171 (1882) ; Hmpsn. Moths Ind. 

 ii. p. 528. 



Head and thorax red-brown, the vertex of head with some 

 blackish ; tegulae brownish white at base with black medial line ; 

 pectus, legs, and abdomen grey-brown with a reddish tinge. Fore 

 wing grey-brown slightly irrorated with blackish, the veins tinged 

 with reddish ; an elongate triangular black patch defined by whitish 

 lines in submedian interspace from near base to beyond middle ; a 

 black point in middle of cell ; a triangular black postmedial patch 

 defined by whitish lines, its angles at middle of discocellulars, at 

 vein 7 towards apex, and below vein 2 towards tornus, a rufous 

 band beyond it from apex to submedian fold followed by a faint 

 double slightly waved dark line with some black points on the 

 outer line on inner area ; a terminal series of blackish points ; cilia 

 reddish brown Avith a darker line near base. Hind wing gvey- 



