664 NOCTUID.35. 



tinged with red-brown beyond it ou costal area, defined below by 

 dark brown with two white points on costa, its outer edge formed 

 by the subterminal line, which is white, oblique to vein 7 where it 

 is angled outwards, then indistinct, brown, waved ; terminal area 

 purple-grey irrorated with red-bi'own and with a series of brown 

 striae before termen. Hind wing purple -grey suffused with brown 

 especially ou terminal half; a subterminal purple-grey line from 

 vein 4 to tornus ; the termen irrorated with purple-grey except 

 towards apex and tornus ; cilia purple-grey ; the underside purple- 

 grey suffused with red-brown on subterminal area, indistinct 

 waved brown medial and postmedial lines and a lanulate purple- 

 grey subterminal line. 



hah. Punjab, Manpuri, 1 $ ; Assam, Silhet, 1 S ; Madras, 

 Wynad, 1 5 , Nilgiris (Hampson), 1 J , 2 $ : Ceylon {TempUton), 

 1 J, 2 $ ; Burma, Rangoon (Noble), 1 § ; Penang {Lloyd), 1 J ; 

 Singapore ( Wood-Jones), 2 J ; Philipi'ines, Samboangan (J. J. 

 Walker), 1 $ . Exp. 42-54 millim. 



Larva. Greyish white above, olive-grey below ; each somite 

 with small black spots in a somewhat linear series ; 4th somite with 

 a reddish lateral spot ; the 1st two pairs of i)roleg8 rudimentary. 

 .Food-plant, Phyllantlius. 



Pupa efflorescent. 



7700. Parallelia lageos. (Plate CCXIX. fig. 16.) 



Kaxia lageos, Guen. NocL iii. p, 256 (1852). 



2 . Head brown suffused with fulvous ; thorax red-brown 

 mixed with grey, the tarsi ringed with whitish ; abdomen grey- 

 brown. Fore wing cupreous brown ; the basal area with some 

 purple-grey suffusion and an indistinct double brown subbasal 

 line from costa to submedian fold filled in with purple-grey ; 

 antemedial line erect, sinuous, with a band of purple-grey suffusion 

 beyond it ; two slight discoidal points ; medial line indistinct, 

 brown, waved, excurved beyond the cell ; postmedial line brown, 

 obliquely downcurved from costa to vein 6 near the subterminal line, 

 then waved, incurved below vein 3, a conical jjatch defined by 

 purple-grey beyond it on costal area with two white points on costa ; 

 subterminal line waved, white and incurved towards costa, then 

 very indistinct ; the termen suffused with purple-grey from just 

 below apex to vein 2 and with slight spot at tornus ; a fine waved 

 dark terminal line. Hind wing brown, the inner area with a 

 slight greyish tinge to the faint bluish white postmedial line from 

 vein 5 to inner margin ; a whitish subterminal line from vein 2 to 

 tornus ; some grey irroratiou on middle of termen ; cilia with a 

 fine whitish line at base ; the underside with a faint discoidal 

 spot, two minutely waved postmedial lines and a subterminal 

 line. 



J , Head and tegulge bright fulvous orange ; fore wing with 



