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CONOPIA. By M. Caede. 
flavipecius. 
maculiven- 
iris. 
eyanescens. 
iris. 
monozona. 
platyuri- 
f or mis. 
albiventris. 
alenicum. 
leucogaster. 
olendci. 
pauper. 
irithyris. 
guineabia. 
donckieri. 
C. flavipecius Hmps. Bluish-black. Margins of patagia, palpi in front and thorax a little posteriorly 
yellow. Frons laterally white. Chest and legs for the most part yellow. Abdomen at base narrower, each 
segment with a yellow band, the long anal tuft with a yellow dorsal and lateral stripe. Abdomen beneath 
striped white. Forewing with narrow black margins, at the base and above the inner margin yellow scales. 
Hindwing with brown fringe. <$ 22 mm. Gold Coast. 
C. maculiventris Le Cerf (77 c). Bluish-black. Palpi below, thorax behind and below yellow. On the 
abdomen the 2nd, 4th, and 5th segments are margined with yellow, beneath at the base and in the middle 
with a broad yellow band. Legs with yellow and black spots. Forewing very narrowly margined with black. 
At the distal margin the bifurcation of veins 7 + 8 is still visible. Hindwing still more narrowly margined. 
C 20 mm. Cameroon. 
C. eyanescens Hmps. (77 d). Thorax coppery brown, patagia with a yellow margin. Abdomen bluish- 
black with fine white segmental margins. Legs with white rings. Forewing hyaline, margins blackish-blue. 
22 mm. Congo District, Rhodesia. 
C. iris Le Cerf (77 d). Bluish-black. Palpi below white. Thorax with 3 yellowish-red longitudinal 
lines and a similar terminal line. On the abdomen the 1st, 4th, and 6th segments are margined with white. 
Anal tuft with a white tip. Beneath the 4th ring is margined with white. Anterior coxae white, legs otherwise 
with white rings. Forewing with a broader black distal margin than in maculiventris. $ 25 mm. Cameroon. 
C. monozona Hmps. differs much in the fiery red marking. Body dark brown, mixed with yellow and 
fiery red. Palpi at base white, margins of patagia fiery red. Abdomen with a yellowish-red band on the 5th 
segment. Anal tuft at the end red, also the lateral tufts near the end. Anterior coxae white. Fore wing coppery 
brown. Wedge-area and longitudinal area only semi-diaphanous, somewhat brownish. Costal margin fiery 
red, cross-vein brown. Distal hyaline area composed of 4 small short divisions. Hinclwing with brown margins, 
cross-vein blackish. Beneath at the costal margin yellow and fiery red. 2 24 mm. Cape Colony. 
C. platyuriforniis Wkr. Coppery black. Palpi below at the base white. Thorax with 3 yellow lines, 
the 4th segment on the abdomen white-edged. The long anal tuft on the sides with a few white hairs. Forewing 
hyaline, the margins with a slight violet gloss. Hindwing corresponding to forewing, cj 16 mm. Cape Colony. 
C. albiventr is Beutenm. (77 d). Black. Frons and palpi excepting tips white. Patagia behind and 
thorax beneath laterally white. Abdomen with a metal-green gloss, above the 4th and last segment with a 
white ring, beneath the 3rd, 4th and 5th segments white; legs with white rings, anterior coxae white. Forewing 
violettish black with a hyaline basal streak and a small white postmedian spot of scales. Hindwing hyaline, 
margin broad violettish-black. ^ 11 mm. Ogowe. A specimen from the Coll. Dr. A. Schultze, identified by 
Prof. Aurivillius, has dark palpi, on the abdomen beneath only the 4th and 5th segments are white. — 
alenicum Strd. (77 d) has more distinctly white anterior coxae. The white areas on the fore wing better visible. 
20 mm. Spanish Guinea. 
C. leucogaster Hmps. {— albiventris Le Cerf.) (77 d). Brownish-black. Frons somewhat white. 
Abdomen impressed in the middle, 2nd and 4th segments finely margined with white, also the anal tuft with 
some white hairs. Abdomen beneath in tire centre broad white. Forewing with a separated narrow wedge-area 
and longitudinal area, the distal hyaline area small, divided into 3 parts. Hindwing with a feeble streak at the 
cross-vein and a narrow margin. 15 mm. Ogowe. 
C„ olenda Beutenm. (77 d). Violettish-black. Palpi white, excepting tips, legs with white rings, anterior 
coxae white. Forewing with a very small hyaline spot in the cell and a larger one behind it. $ 15 mm. Ogowe. 
C. pauper Le Cerf (77 d). Bronze black. Frons white, palpi black. 4th segment of abdomen margined 
with white, beneath white excepting base and end. Wings as in olenda. $ 16 mm. Cameroon. 
C. trithyris Meyr. Violettish-black. Antennae before the tips white, palpi yellowish-brown. Abdomen 
without light margins. Forewing at the inner margin with a coppery gloss, in the marginal area ochreous on 
% of the length of the wing. A small quadrangular hyaline spot in the middle of the cell, of the distal hyaline 
area only the two last spots in front and behind are preserved. Hindwing hyaline. ^ 14 mm. Sierra Leone. 
(?) C. guineabia Strd. (77 d). Body brownish-black. Palpi, legs, and 3rd abdominal segment above 
yellow. Forewing violettish black without hyaline spots, hindwing hyaline, almost without a margin, only 
the fringe black. In the forewing veins 7 + 8 on a very long stalk, vein 9 rising with them from the same 
place. The specimen being very much damaged, the genus cannot be ascertained for certain. 28 mm. Spanish 
Guinea. 
The following species described as “Sesia ”, may also belong to Conopia. 
(?) C. donckieri Le Cerf (77 e). Thorax greyish-brown. Abdomen above black, the 2nd segment is 
broadly margined with yellowish-white, the 6th light grey, abdomen beneath greyish-brown. Forewing hyaline, 
margined with greyish-brown. Cross-vein dull black. At the base of the cell, below the costal margin, and 
below the cross-vein yellow scales. Hindwing hyaline, margined with greyish-brown, only at the apex yellow, 
inside of it somewhat black. £ 32 mm. Madagascar. 
