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7523. Dermaleipa parallelipipeda. 



Ophiodes parcdleli'pipeda, Guen. Noct. iii. p. 230 (1852). 

 Ophisma sacUmilUeri, Mab. Ann. Sue. Ent. Fr. 1879, p. 328 ; Saalm. Lep. 

 Madag. p. 460, ff. 141, 142. 



Head and thorax red-brown ; tarsi fuscous ; abdomen greyish 

 ochreous, the ventral surface tiuged with scarlet. Fore wing red- 

 brown, irrorated with blackish and tinged with purplish grey except 

 on postmedial costal area ; a pale oblique subbasal line from costa 

 to vein 1 ; antemedial line pale defined on each side by brown, 



Fig. 95. — Dermaleipa parallelipipeda, (J. 



very oblique ; a small black spot in middle of cell ; reniform 

 brownish defined by dark brown, narrow ; postmedial line pale 

 defined on outer side by brown, very oblique and ending at 

 tornus, a slight fuscous mark beyond it in discal fold ; subterminal 

 line pale defined on inner side by brown and on outer by 

 black points on the veins of inner half, sinuous. Hind wing 

 yellow, the inner margin brownish. Underside yellow : fore wing 

 with blackish discoidal lunule. 



Ab. 1. Fore wing with the reniform filled in with black. 



Ab. 2. Fore wing with yellow spot in lower part of reniform; 

 hind wing with the termen tinged with scarlet. 



Ab. 3. 5 . Hind wing with the basal half suffused with brown 

 angled outwards in submedian fold, and with diffused subterminal 

 band. 



Ab. 4. Head, thorax, and fore wing ochreous tiuged with red- 

 brown. — N.E. Rhodesia. 



