560 NocxniD^, 



7692. Parallelia rigidistria. 



Ophuma rigidistria, Guen. IN^oet. iii. p. 240 (1852); Hmpsii. Moths 



Ind. ii. p. 496. 

 Na.ria calefasciens, Wlk. xiv. 1405 (1852) ; Moore, Lep. Ceyl. iii. p. 168, 



pi. 168. f. 3. 

 Ophisma correctata, Wlk. xxxiii. 957 (1865). 



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

 grey-brown, the tarsi ringed with white ; abdomen dorsally tinged 

 with blue-grey and with lateral dark lines with series of white 

 points on them. Fore wing bright cupreous red-brown ; a slight 

 brown subbasal line faintly defined on outer side by white, 

 excurved below costa and ending at submedian fold ; antemedial 

 line red-brown faintly defined on outer side by whitish, oblique, 

 straight; medial line double, brown, the outer line indistinct, 

 inwardly oblique, straight, defined on inner side by a narrow white 

 band ; postmedial line dark brown faintly defined on outer side by 

 whitish, dentate, oblique to vein 6, tlien inwardly oblique, some 

 white points bej'ond it on costa; a very indistinct pale Avaved 

 subterminal line defined dii outer side by a brown shade; a series 

 of black points just before termen with white points beyond them 

 on termen ; cilia white mixed with rufous especially towards 

 tornus. Hind wing grey-brown, the terminal area rather darker; 

 a diffused whitish postmedial line from discal fold to inner margin 

 towards tornus ; a fine waved dark terminal line slightly defined on 

 inner side by white at middle ; cilia white, brown towards apex 

 and tornus. Underside grey-brown ; fore wing with slight waved 

 medial and postmedial lines and faint sinuous pale subterminal line 

 with darker suffusion before it, the termen Avhitish : hind wing 

 wdth dark discoidal point, two minutely waved postmedial lines 

 excurved below costa, and a whitish subterminal line excurved 

 below vein 7. 



Hah. Bombay, Kanara {Ward), 1 $ ; Travakcoee, Trivandrum 

 (Fergiisson), 1 5 ; Ceyi.on (Liiviesay), '2 c? , 1 $ ty\^e calefasciens ; 

 Singapore (Rlclley), 2 $ ; Mysol ; Br. N. Guinea, Ekeikei 

 (Pratt), 1 d,3 $, Mt. Kebea (Pratt), 2 J ; Choisetjl I. (Meeh), 

 1 J. Krp. 56-68 millim. 



7693. Parallelia latizona. (Plate CCXIX. fig. 11.) 



OpMitsa laiisona, Butl. Cist. Ent. i. p. 293 (1874). 

 Head and thorax orange ; antennse pale brownish ; tibiae and 



