jusia. 
geometrica. 
cooma. 
coomana. 
frena. 
stolida. 
quaesita. 
disjuncta. 
hyppasia. 
bougainvil- 
lensis. 
cephise. 
cephisiodes. 
saina. 
490 CHALCIOPE. By M. Gaede. 
G. justa Wkr, (= caeca Pagst.) (54 e). The two white transverse lines narrower. The first from % costa 
to beyond centre of inner margin, the second % costa to outer margin at vein 2, then in a lineolet angulated 
and to inner margin near the first line. On hindwings the white central band is narrower than in preceding 
species. In a specimen from New' Guinea the delicate line from vein 2 to inner margin is absent on forewings 
and it corresponds therefore with Hampson’s illustration in Cat. Lep. Phal. PI. 222, fig. 9. Another specimen 
from Cooktown may be a hybrid between oculicola and justa. All lines are as narrow as in justa , but at inner 
margin olive-brown scales are discernible near the first line and a black spot at margin on submedian fold. 
25 —30 mm. Australia, New Guinea, Bismarck Archipelago. 
2. Forewings with approximately vertical bands. 
G. geometrica F. This species that occurs commonly in southern Europe. Africa through to Australia, 
is already fully dealt with in Vol. 3, p. 331, pi. 61 d and Vol. 15, p. 245. 
G. cooma Swh. (54 f) closely resembles geometrica. The inner white band of forewings is said to be more 
vertical, the black-brown median area extends to costa at outer band. On hindwings the white median band is 
apparently wider and shorter. — coomana Strd. has a yellow inner band. 45—55 mm. Celebes, Queensland. 
G. frena Swh. (54 f) is described as a species, but is perhaps only a form of cooma Swh. The inner of the 
2 bands is vertical, narrow, white, extending from below' costa and somewhat enlarged at inner margin. Also 
the second band is white, rather wider at the top. The dark patches before and behind the white bands as in 
cooma. Hindwings vary rather more. Dark brown with a large white spot before centre, a white marginal spot 
at anal angle. 42 mm. One from Amboina. 
G. stolida F. This species, that is so common in southern Europe, is also distributed over India. It is 
dealt with in Vol. 3, p. 331, pi. 61 f. 
In Australia it is replaced by the similar 
G. quaesita Swh. (54 f). In colouration it is just like stolida. The dark patch before the vertical white 
median band is more triangular, instead of quadrate, as in stolida. The outer line is narrow, with delicate black 
inner and narrow yellowish outer edges and without an inward dentation in centre; slightly incurved at costa. 
The black dentate line distally and its prolongation to apex almost as in stolida. On hindwings the pale discal 
band seems to commence further outwards on costa and to terminate nearer the base at inner margin. 24 to 
26 mm. Three specimens are known from N. Australia and Queensland. 
35. Genus: tlhalelope Hbn. 
This Genus, of which the one species hypjpasia Cram, is universally distributed, has already been suffic¬ 
iently dealt with in Vol. 3. p. 332 and Vol. 15, p. 246. Also in India there are only a few species. 
Ch. disjuncta Mr. The species is characterised by an expansion of the antennae of the q before the 
centre. Forewings somewhat deeper brown than hyppasia. The two triangles are just as black, with pale edges. 
The basal triangle is very obtuse, the upper point therefore somewhat rounded off. The outer triangle on costa 
somewhat indented, whereby the apical end is very acute. Hindwings as in hyppasia , but without the dark 
discal band. 35—40 mm. India. 
Ch. hyppasia Cr. This species has already been mentioned above. It is dealt with and illustrated in 
Vol. 3, p. 332, pi. 61 f. and Vol. 15, p. 246, pi. 29 f. bougainvillensis Strd. denotes a form in which the ground 
colour of fore wings is a more vivid reddish brown, the white markings reduced. 
Ch. cephise Cram. (= maxima Gn.) (54 f). In this species exceptionally the two sexes differ somewhat. 
Ground colour ochreous grey-brown. In $ the two dark triangles are very similarly shaped to those of disjuncta. 
The oblique band between them whitish. Hindwings ochreous yellow with diffuse triangular median shade and 
dark submarginal band. In $ the outer triangle on fore wings is reduced to a wide marginal stripe and a narrow 
anterior stripe, the space that is free is intertilled with yellowish. - cephisiodes Strd. Ground colour of fore¬ 
wings paler. Hindwings brilliant yellow, no median shade, submarginal band narrow. 40—50 mm. India, 
New Guinea, Sunda Islands, Fiji Islands. 
Ch. saina Swh. This author takes the 2 usual triangular spots to be a single but interrupted triangle 
and therefore his description seems to vary. Wings ochreous brown. Forewings with a large longish black tri¬ 
angular mark at inner margin, with white edge, upper and undersides almost straight, bent up outwards, near 
the margin, upper end very acute and nearer to apex than in cephise. This triangle is intersected in the centre 
by an oblique white band. Hindwings dark brown with pale grey outer band. 55 mm. One S from Nias. 
