56G NOCTUID.E. 



pale red-brown and irrorated with dark brown : subbasal line 

 represented by a curved brown striga from oosta ; antemedial line 

 brown, incurved below costa, incurved and slightly sinuous below 

 discal fold; a dark point in middle of cell and point at lower 

 angle ; a slight oblique whitish shade from lower angle of cell to 

 inner margin at antemedial line ; medial line brown, obliquely 

 excurved from costa to vein 5, then inwardly oblique and waved ; 

 postmedial line brown, oblique and defined on outer side by white to 

 vein G, then inwardly oblique and waved, an oblique conical patch 

 with some whitish suffusion on it and some white points on costa 

 beyond it on costal area, defined below by brown and on outer 

 side by the subterminal line, which is white and incurved from 

 costa to vein 7, then bent inwards and indistinct brownish and 

 waved to inner margin; the terraen suffnsed with violaceous white 

 except at apex ; a fine waved broAvn terminal line and series of 

 black points in the interspaces. Hind wing pale reddish brown, 

 the terminal area irrorated and suffused with darker brown 

 especially on apical area ; a curved whitish postmedial line with 

 blackish spot beyond it on inner margin ; a faint waved subterminal 

 line ; the termen violaceous white except towards apex and tornus 

 with a fine waved dark terminal line and series of points in the 

 interspaces; cilia white, tinged with red-brown at base; the 

 underside with small black discoidal spot and crenulate postmedial 

 line. 



Hob. Assam, Silhet (Hearsei/), 3 c? . Ex^^. 50 millim. 



7703. Parallelia palpalis. (Plate CCXX. fig. 1.) 



Ophiusa palpalis, Wlk. xxxiii. 9G8 (1865). 



Bysgonico plutohia, HoU. Psyche, vii. p. 84, pi. iii. f. 10 (1894). 



Head and thorax brown mixed with pu r] de-grey ; palpi tinged 

 with fulvous ; abdomen purple-grey suffused with brown. Fore 

 wing purple-grey irrorated and in parts suffused with dark brown ; 

 antemedial line double, dark, and slightly sinuous; medial line 

 dark, excurved beyond the cell, then oblique and sinuous ; post- 

 medial line dark brown, obliquely downcurved from costa to vein G 

 where it is acutely angled outwards, then oblique and waved 

 to submedian fold and erect to inner margin, a semi-elliptical 

 purple-grey patch irrorated with brown beyond it on costal area 

 defined by dark brown suffusion which extends from the medialline 

 to apex, some white points on it at costa, its outer edge defined 

 by white and angled inwards at vein 7 ; traces of a waved brown 

 subterminal line from the patch to inner margin ; a fine waved 

 brown terminal line defining a series of white points in the 

 interspaces. Hind wing purplish grey suffused with brown ; traces 

 of an oblique grey subterminal line from vein 4 to tornus ; a fine 

 waved dark terminal line ; the underside brown irrorated with 

 purple-grey, an indistinct dark postmedial line excurved from below 

 costa to vein 4 and a waved grey subterminal line. 



