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7794. Chalciope cepMse. 



Nnctua cepMse, Cram. Pap. Exot. iii. p. 69, pi. 227. f. C (1779) ; Hmpsn. 



Motbs Ind. ii. p. 528. 

 Trigonodes maxima, Gueu. Noct. iii. p. 282 (1852), 



S . Head, thorax, and abdomen greyish ochreous tinged with 

 brown ; palpi and frons dark reddish brown ; antennae with the 

 shaft whitish above ; pectus and fore and mid femora dark brown, 

 the fore tibiae and tarsi white. Fore wing greyish ochreous tinged 

 with brown and slightly irrorated with black ; _ a triangular 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-broA\'n 



Fig. 6. — Chalcio-pe ccpliise, (^ . 



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

 discocellulars, 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 suffused with brown ; a dark medial 

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

 base, separated by a pale 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. Underside of fore wing suffused with red-brown except 

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

 black partly interrupted by an obliquely curved reddish band from 



