658 NOCTUID^E. 



oclireous towards apex to -which the subterminal shade is bent 

 outwards. 



Ab. 1. Fore wing with the stigmata almost obsolete. 



Hah. Fiji, type t $ in Coll. llothschild, Vita Levn, Suva 

 ( Woodford) in Coll. Druce. Eccp. 60 millim. 



7689. Parallelia serratilinea. (Plate CCXIX. fig. 9.) 



OpMusa serratili)iea, Beth.-Baker, Nov. Zool. xiii. p. 257 (1906). 



Head and thorax red-brown ; pectus, legs, and abdomen grey- 

 brown, the last dorsally tinged with blue-grey. Fore wing red- 

 brown sparsely irrorated with white scales; a minute tuft of 

 white-tipped scales below base of cell ; subbasal lino rufous with a 

 faint dark line in middle, sinuous, from costa to submodian fold ; 

 antemedial line rufous with a red-brown line in middle, oblique, 

 sinuous ; a white point in middle of cell ; reniform whitish defined 

 by brown and with brown striga in centre ; medial line indistinct, 

 brown, waved, excurved to vein 4, then oblique; postmedial line 

 red-brown, oblique and defined on outer side by white to vein 6, 

 then dentate and produced to minute white points on the veins, 

 incurved below vein 4, a semi-elliptical chocolate-brown patch 

 beyond it on costal area, extending to apex, defined by white 

 below and with whitish points on costa; traces of a waved whitish 

 subterminal line except on costal area, incurved at subraedian fold ; 

 the termen grey except towards apex and tornus, with a fine white 

 terminal line with points at the interspaces, defined on inner side 

 by a fine waved brown line. Hind wing fuscous brown tinged with 

 blue-grey ; a diffused blue-grey postmedial line from vein 6 to above 

 tornus; the termen bluish white from vein 6 to submedian fold ; a 

 fine white terminal line with points at the interspaces, defined on 

 inner side by a fine dark line ; cilia blue-grey, rufous at apex and 

 with fine darR linos at base and near tips. Underside fuscous 

 brown irrorated with grey ; fore wing with reddish ochreous 

 postmedial band expanding into a triangular patch at costa and 

 with curved waved dark line on it towards costa, a reddish ochreous 

 subterminal line, oblique between veins 7 and 5, then maculate; 

 hind wing with reddish ochreous postmedial band with waved dark 

 line on it and subterminal series of small ochreous spots. 



Ilab. Be. N. Guinea, Ekeikei (Pratt), 3 $, Mt, Kebea {Pratt), 

 1 c? , 1 ? • Exp. 66-72 millim. 



7690. Parallelia prisca. (Plate CCXIX. fig. 10.) 



Ophisma prisoa, Wlk. xiv. 1385 (1858). . 



S . Head and thorax dull reddish brown ; antennae pale at base ; 

 pectus, legs, and abdomen greyish brown, the fore tarsi ringed with 

 white. Fore wing dull reddish brown ; subbasal line red-brown de- 

 fined on each side by reddish ochreous, from costa to submedian fold ; 

 antemedial line red-brown defined on each side by reddish ochreous, 



