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tinge, the inner areas bluish white ; hindwing with curved waved brown 

 postmedial Une and subterminal shade, the area beyond it bluish white except 

 towards apex, a waved dark terminal line forming points at the interspaces. 

 Hab. Portuguese E. Africa, Ruo Valley (Xeave), 2 $ type. Etj). 40 mill. 



7728a. Parallelia semilunaris n. sp. 



?. Head and thorax bright red-brown sUghtly mixed with whitish, the 

 tegulae tipped wth whitish, the patagia with whitish bar at middle defined in 

 front by brown ; antennae dark brown, the 1st joint white in front ; abdomen 

 grey-browTi tinged with red-brown, the anal tuft whitish at base ; pectus, legs, 

 and ventral surface of abdomen reddish brown mixed with whitish, the spurs 

 and tarsi dark brown ringed with white. Forewing bright red-brown largely 

 glossed with purple-grey and mixed with some whitish, the inner half below 

 the cell and the terminal area paler, the outer half of medial area not irrorated 

 with whitish ; subbasal line white defined on inner side by red-brown, from 

 costa to vein 1 ; antemedial Une red-brown slightly defined on each side by 

 whitish, oblique and almost straight ; a white point in middle of cell ; medial 

 line red-brown defined on inner side by rather diffused white, strongly incurved 

 and touching at costa and inner margin the postmedial Hne, which is red-bro\\n 

 defined on outer side by a white line, oblique to vein 6, where it is acutely angled 

 outwards, then incurved, some white points beyond it on costa ; an obliquely 

 incurved wedge-shaped chocolate- broviii mark from apex to near the angle 

 of the postmedial Une, a red-brown subterminal shade from it to inner margin ; 

 a series of dark points before teimen ; ciUa grey-brown with fine whitish Unes 

 at base and near tips. Hindwing grey-brown tinged with red-brown ; a fine 

 brown terminal Une forming points at the interspaces ; ciUa grey-brown with 

 a fine whitish Une at base. Underside grey-brown tinged with re<l- brown, the 

 imier areas whitish ; fore^ving with the ciUa wliite towards apex ; hindwing with 

 slight curved waved brown postmedial Une and faint diffused subterminal line. 



Hab. Dutch N. Guinea, Mt. GoUath (Meek), 1 (J type. Exp. 54 mill. 



7732. ParalleUa perexcurvata n. sp. 



cJ. Head and thorax bright red-brown ; antennae dark brown ; abdomen 

 grey-brown with some wliitish at base and whitish segmental Unes, the anal 

 tuft pale rufous ; pectus, legs, and ventral surface of abdomen grey-brown mixed 

 with some whitish, the fore and hind tibiae with sUght dark spots, the tarsi dark 

 brown ringed with white. Forewing chocolate red-brown sUghtly mixed with 

 whitish, the terminal area rather paler ; two waved whitish subbasal Unes from 

 costa to above inner margin ; antemedial Une double, white, incurved in th* 

 cell and excurved below it, then obUque ; reniform defined by white, obUque 

 and sUghtly angled inwards at mecUan nervure, two converging white bars above 

 it from costa ; some white points on apical part of costa ; postmedial Une white, 

 arising below costa well beyond middle, oblique to discal fold towards termen, 

 then excurved to vein 2, then strongly incurved ; a series of dark points before 

 termen ; ciUa with a fine whitish Une at base. Hindwing dark grey-brown with 

 a cupreous gloss ; a sUght whitish subbasal Une between discal and submedian 

 folds, where it is met by a whitish streak from base, and wth sUght dark mark 



