Split a chunk. Move one of new (empty) chunks to another shard. Try to (re)merge those two chunks.
Error message: "errmsg" : "could not merge chunks, collection foo.bar does not contain a chunk ending at
{ _id: 40.0 }"
Error message should say that collection does not contain chunk ending at <key> on this shard or "the chunks you want to merge are on different shards".