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24(i CHALCIOPE; CUNEISKJNA; PARACHALCTOPE. By M. Gaede. 
G. buchanani Boihsch. is much smaller than microgonia. Forewing clove-coloured grey at the base. 
Interior band dark chocolate brown, edged with white outside, thrice as broad above the inner margin as at 
the costal margin. Median band broad, equally coloured, edged with white outside. Ground-colour of forewing 
dove-coloured grey above the median vein, olive yellow below it. A brown exterior dentate line begins at a 
large black apical s])ot. Between this line and the median vein, the wing is grey above vein 6 , olive yellow below 
it as far as the inner margin. Margin dove-coloured, darker outward, a Avhite spot below the apex. Hindwing 
Avood-coloured grey aecI dull reddish. A median line, a submarginal band and a marginal band blackish grey. 
9 24 mm. Niger District. 
44. Genus: Clialeiope Him. 
The few S]Aecies belonging to this genus have a very homogeneous marking. A basal triangle and a triangle 
in the distal area are divided by a light l)and from the middle of the costal margin to the anal angle. The 
forewing beneath has a hirsute basal area. Ty})e: eephisa Or. from India. The genus is also represented in 
Jamaica by 1 species. 
Ch. hyppasia Cr. deliana Stoll, anfractuosa Mah., acutata Gn.) (29 f). Costal and inner margins 
broadly violettish brocvn. A narrow light brown stri])e extends from % inner margin towards the middle of 
the costal margin, l)ut not quite reaching the light part. Before and behind this stripe one blackish brown triangle 
each, all Ijeing edged with white except the anterior edge. Submarginal Line light from the apex to the anal 
angle, forming a flat hollow a little below the centre of the wing. Darker before it at the costal and inner 
margins. Margin violettish grey, darker in the middle. Hindwing greyish brown, darker at the margin, a dark 
median line. The $ is darker on the hindwing. — In hyppasiana Strd. the light median strijje is narrower and 
someAvhat shorter. As also the submarginal line is much less — though uniformly — bent, it may be another 
species. — In inacuta Gn. the exterior dark triangle is more intensely edged with white, and shorter below. 
35—40 mm. (Common throiighout Africa, distributed as far as Australia. As the species reaches the palae- 
arctic frontier in Central C4iina and Japan, it has been dealt with already in Vol. Ill (p. 332), where it is also 
figured according to a South Asiatic specimen (])1. 61 f). 
Ch. pusitla Holl. (29 f). Body and forewing light greyish yellow, more or less tinged with pink. The 
interior lower black triangular s])ot is flat and oblong, the exterior one almost equilateral, both finely edged 
light. Behind it fine light and dark straight lines at the margin. Hindwing greyish brown or dark broAvn. 
25—30 mm. West and East Africa. SomeAvhat less common than hyppasia. 
45. Genus: Ciiiieisigiia 
IMarked somcAvliat like the preceding species. Distinguished by the tibiae being less spined and more 
hairy. The middle tibiae of the S contain a holloAv with a hair-pencil. Type: ohstans Wkr. Besides this species 
tAvo others are knoAA’ii, all from Africa. 
C. ohstans Wkr. (29 f). ForcAving reddish grey Avith a violet reflection. A black triangular spot from 
the inner margin near the base to the lower cell-angle, a short black streak above it above vein 4. Submarginal 
band dark olive broAvn, edged with Avhite; the exterior edge excurved to the apex and slightly ex curved at the 
inner margin. The interior edge bent basad behind the cell and in the submedian fold, excurved between them; 
traces of a fcAv someAvhat darker lines before it. Two somewhat darker lines behind the exterior edge. HindAAdng 
dark broAvn, lighter at the base. 32 — 40 mm. South and East Africa. 
C. cumamita B.-Bak. (29 f) is quite similar to ohstans in colour and marking. Instead of the triangular 
spot there is here a longer more horizontal band. A somewhat rhombic figure above it at the cell-end, and a 
black dot in the centre of the cell. Submarginal band olive brown, edged Avith black, from the apex to ^'3 of 
the inner margin, excurved at veins 3 and 4. Fine dark lines before it, dark violet towards the margin. Hind- 
Aving similar to that of ohstans. 35 mm. South and East Africa. 
C. rivulata Hmps. (29 g). The basal triangle of obstans has become almost linear here, slightly bent. 
The rhombic figure at the lower cell-angle and the central dot of the cell as in cumamita. The olive broAvn sub¬ 
marginal band strongly curved, far excurved between veins 3 and 4, so that the ground-colour projects out- 
Avard like a finger, bent far basad from vein 3 to the submedian fold, then outAvard again. A feAv black spots 
in front in the marginal area. HindAA'ing similar to that of obstans (29 f). 39 — 34 mm. South and East Africa. 
The commonest of the three species. 
46. Genus : Paraclialciope Hmps. 
Palpi long, highly erected. Only the middle tibiae s]uned. Excepting these theoretical differences, the 
species of this also purely African genus are partly extremely similar to those of the geuAis Chalciope. Type: 
eurlidirola. Wkr. 
