Noctuidse in the Joicey 



yellow at apex) ; margin and fringey 

 basal hair golden-yellow. 



Underside of both wings whitish 

 the inner margin yellow (narrowly on\ 

 hind wing). Fore wing with dift'usec 

 above it at costa, a curved postmedial IhTT^ gfjfh'r "r)i*titr^d 

 dark subterminal shading, and a row of terminal dots. 

 Hind wing with discal dot, indistinct medial and postmedial 

 lines (the former double) and double subterminal shading ; 

 a row of terminal dots. 



Ivory Coast, 1 ? . 



This seems to be an Achcea species, though the under 

 surface more resembles Heliophisma, which differs from Achcea 

 chiefly in the more produced apex of fore wing. 



Achcea hidistincta^ Wlk. 



Mr. L. B. Prout, in his paper published in Ann. & Mag. 

 Nat. Hist. (9) iii. p. 184 (1919), notes the fact that this 

 species (the type of which is in Coll. Joicey) is distinct 

 from Achcea ablunaris, Gn,, to which Hampson sinks it 

 (Cat. Lep. Phal. xii. p. 538). It was then overlooked that 

 indistincta, Wlk., is really a synonym of Mimophisma delunaris, 

 Gn., which Hampson places in the Noctuinse. For the close 

 relationship between these two species, see the preceding 

 note on classification. 



14. Parallelia diffusa, sp. n. (PI. III. fig. 3.) 



S .—38 mm. 



Head, thorax, palpus, antenna, abdomen, and legs nearly 

 unicolorous brown, the tarsi paler and a little more ochreous 

 in tone. 



Fore wing glossy purple-brown, the basal area a little 

 more lead-coloured, the outer medial area metallic greenish- 

 brown, the ante- and postmedial lines dark red-brown, 

 distally edged with flesh-colour, the oblique apical streak dark 

 brown, proximally diflused and shading into violet. Ante- 

 medial line nearly erect, from costa at 5 mm. to hind margin at 

 6 mm. ; a slightly incurved, diffused inner edge to the medial 

 dark shade representing the medial line; postmedial line 

 oblique outward from costa at 1 1 mm. to R^ ; here acutely 

 angled, thence nearly straight to hind margin at 10 mm.; 

 five white spots on costa towards apex, the 1st marking 

 the origin of the postmedial line, the 5th the origin of the 



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