Piihh 7. TV. 1936. 
PARACHALCIOPE. By M. Gaede. 
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P. euclidicola Wkr. (= fiircifera Hmps.) (29 g). Forewing blackish brown, dark red-brown at the costal 
margin. The lines yellowish white. A very oblique line at the base to I /3 inner margin. An oblique line from 
below the middle of the costal margin to % inner margin, connected in the submedian fold with another line 
proceeding from below % costal margin. Hindwing somewhat less dark. 35—40 mm. West Africa, also in 
South Africa. 
P. benitensis Holl. (29 g). Forewing lighter red-brown at the costal margin than euclidicola, the margin 
sharply cut off, but not white. The I'est of the wing blackish brown as far as the exterior white line. The 
latter extends from below the costal margin vertically towards the anal angle shortly before which it is 
narrowed and inwardly bent, connected there with the somewhat thicker oblique white median line. Somewhat 
darker behind the exterior line, only the outermost marginal part as light as the costal margin. Hindwing 
from grevish brown to dark brown. 32—38 mm. West Africa. 
The following 5 species are more or less similar to Chalc. hyppasia (29 f). 
P. trigonometrica Hmps. (29 g). Costal margin of forewing pale brown witli a violet reflection like 
the inner margin below vein 1 , too. A large triangular black spot in the liasal area, distally bordered by a 
broad white oblique band. Behind it the black apical triangle, finely edged with white outside, slightly bent 
parallel witii the distal margin, ending pointed below. A submarginal dark shadow behind it, ]jroceeding 
from the apex, contrasting with the white border-line. Hindwdng pale brown, darker at the margin, o dd mm. 
East Africa. 
P. rotundata sp. n. ( 20 g) is the West African representative of trigonometrica . Scheme of markings 
and colouring not different. The white oblique band is narrower and somewhat steeper. In this way the 
lower point of the exterior black triangle is somewhat rounded, its narrow white outer margin is somewhat 
straighter than in trigonometrica. 35 mm. Cameroon; Togo. 
P. deltifera Fldr. (= albifissa Hmps.) (29 g). Costal and distal margins of forewing light red-brown. 
The white median band extends very obliquely, so that the apex of the black basal triangle is situate above 
the middle of the base of the triangle. Both the triangles are finely edged with Avhite at the costal margin. 
The outer margin of the exterior triangle is straight outside and thickly edged with white. The dark sub- 
marginal line is quite straight. Hindwing dark brown. 30—35 mm. West Africa, Rhodesia. Rather common. 
P. mixta Rothsch. is very similar to deltifera (29 g), but the white oblique band of the forewing gra¬ 
dually widens towards the anal angle and is not equally broad everywhere as in deltifera. Hindwing not uni¬ 
coloured, but with a median band similar to Chalc. hyppasia (29 fk $ 40 mm. North Nigeria. Described 
according to this one specimen. 
P. mahura Fldr. (= ditrigona Hmps.) (30 a) resembles deltifera by the sharp-edged exterior triangle. 
Ground-colour somewhat lighter than in deltifera. The oblique band broader, somewhat steeper, not white, 
but of the ground-colour. At the inner margin, the edge of the ground-colour is broader than in deltifera. A 
double straight dark submarginal line at the somewhat darker distal margin. Hindwing greyish brown, faded- 
ly darker at the margin. 35—38 mm. East Africa, common; also in South Africa. 
The following species exhibit quite a different scheme of markings. 
P. longiplaga Hmps. (30 a). Thorax and forewing in the costal-marginal area light greyish ochreous, 
coarsely dusted blackish. A black triangle extends from the base to the middle of the wing to the oblique 
submarginal line. Its upper edge is straight, the lower border bent upward in the middle. A dark oblique 
line from the apex, the sj)ace behind it more brownish. Hindwing pale brown, darker at the margin, d' 40 mm. 
Uganda. Only 1 specimen known. 
P. birsaria Holl. (30 a). Body and forewing greyish brown. The black spot begins near the base below 
the middle of the wing and then extends down to vein 1 . The upper edge is straight and almost parallel with 
the costal margin of the wing, the white exterior edge parallel with the distal margin of the wing. From its 
lower angle a broad incision extends into the triangle almost as far as its anterior edge, with a black cellular 
dot above it. A dark oblique patch from the apex, dark clouds below it at the margin. Hindwing greyish 
brown, broadly darker at the margin. 40—45 mm. West Africa, Uganda. 
P. monoplaneta Hmps. (30 a). Brownish ochreous, light or dark. An oblong triangular black spot 
below the cell, extending outside above almost to the base of vein 3, the lower apex at vein 1, inserted out¬ 
side between, narrower towards the base of the wing. A semicircular sj)ot hanging below vein 5, thickly edged 
with yellowish in dark specimens. A spot at the middle of the cross-vein. Submarginal Kne dark, from near 
the apex into the submedian fold, touching the spot. Somewhat darker behind it. Hindwing greyish brown, 
darker at the margin, cj and $ 45 mm. East Africa, Uganda. — A $ from Nigeria in the Berlin Museum 
shows this scanty marking still more reduced. It forms a transition to agonia. 
P. agonia Hmps. (30 b) is an extreme monoplaneta with hardly any marking. Body and wings pale 
ochreous, much lighter than the ^ mentioned just now. The feeble spot at the cross-vein is yet present. A 
blackish brown shadow from the apex is fused with the very hazy exterior spot and less distinctly contuiued 
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euclidicola. 
henilenHis. 
trignnoine- 
irica 
rotundata. 
deltifera. 
uii.vta. 
mahura. 
longiplaga. 
binaria. 
monoplaneta 
agonia. 
