PARALLELIA. 559 



oblique, sinuous ; a whitish point in middle of cell ; reniform 

 defined by dark brown, with some white scales representing its 

 annulus and brown striga in centre ; medial line double, dentate, 

 excurved beyond the cell, then incurved ; postmedial line white and 

 oblique from costa to vein 6 with some yellowish before it, then 

 brown slightly defined by yellowish, dentate and oblique, a conical 

 chocolate-brown patch beyond it on costal area; subterminal 

 line indistinct, reddish, waved, with yellow spots on it towards 

 costa and at middle, incurved at discal and subraedian folds ; a 

 series of slight dark ])oints just before termen. Hind wing dark 

 greyish brown with indistinct pale curved postmedial line from 

 vein 6 to inner margin ; the termen slightly greyer. Underside 

 brown, with two indistinct postmedial lines and a postmedial 

 yellowish patch on costa of fore wing. 



Ab. 1 . Fore wing with the postmedial area suffused with reddish 

 yellow, the subterminal line reddish, yellow and rather diffused, the 

 termen sometimes white except at tornus of fore wing and apex 

 and tornus of hind wing. — Yavau. 



Hah. Samoa (Z>«^'(3 of Northumberland), 1 S type ; Fiuendly Is., 

 Vavau {Eclipse Exp.), 2 S • l^xp. 68-78 millim. 



7691. Parallelia illibata. 



Nociua illihata, Fabr. Syst. Ent. p. 592 (1775) ; Hmpsn. Moths Ind. ii. 



p. 495. 

 Hemerohlevima peropaca, Hiihn. Ziitr. iii. p. 33, (f. 541-2 (1825). 

 O-phisma Icetahilis, Giien. Noct. iii. p. 241 (1852). 



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

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

 brown slightly irrorated with blue-grey scales ; subbasal line rufous 

 with a faint dark line in middle, from costa to submedian fold ; 

 anteraedial line rufous with a red-brown line in middle, oblique and 

 very slightly incurved ; reniform greyish defined \)y red-brown and 

 with slight curved dark striga in centre ; medial line very 

 indistinct, dark, waved, incurved below vein 4 ; postmedial line 

 indistinct, red-brown, obliquely downcurved and defined on outer 

 side by white from costa to vein 6, then dentate and faintly 

 defined by rufous, incurved below vein 4, a semi-elliptical chocolate- 

 brown patch beyond it on costal area extending to apex ; 

 subterminal line hardly traceable, rufous, waved, incurved below 

 vein 3 ; the termen and cilia greyish except at apex and towards 

 tornus ; a series of slight blackish points just before termen. 

 Hind wing grey-brown ; an indistinct oblique blue-grey post- 

 medial line from vein 6 to above tornus ; the termen tinged with 

 blue-grey from vein 6 to submedian fold with a fine dark terminal 

 line with minute white points at the interspaces ; the under- 

 side brown irrorated with grey, two indistinct minutely waved 

 postmedial lines, and a subterminal series of small whitish 

 spots. 



