PAKALLELIA.. 567 



Hah. Sierra Leone {Morgan), 1 d type ; Gold Coast, Obuassi 

 (Berr/man), 1 $ ; S. Nigeria, Lagos {Dudgeon), 1 $ ; GAUooisr, 

 Ogove R. Exp. ^0-48 millim. 



7704. Parallelia trogosema, n, sp. (Plate CCXX. fig. 2.) 



Head and thorax red-brown ; antennae with the shaft whitish 

 in front towards base ; pectus, legs, and abdomen grey-brown. 

 Fore wing purplish grey irrorated and in parts suffused with dark 

 reddish brown especially on basal area ; an oblique whitish 

 subbasal line from costa to submedian fold ; antemedial line whitish 

 defined on inner side by dark brown, erect, straight, a slight dark 

 discoidal lunule and indistinct waved line from lower angle of cell 

 to inner margin; postmedial line dark brown, obliquely down- 

 curved from costa to vein 6 where it is acutely angled outwards, 

 then obliquely incurved, a semi-elliptical purplish grey patch tinged 

 with brown and defined by white beyond it on costal area with 

 chocolate-brown suffusion before and below it and an oblique 

 chocolate-brown patch beyond it from apex, some white points 

 on it at costa, its outer edge indented below costa; an oblique 

 subterminal series of obscure dentate dark marks frcm the patch 

 to inner margin ; a fine crenulate dark terminal line with black 

 points at the interspaces. Hind wing dark greyish brown with 

 a fine dark terminal line ; the underside brown irrorated with 

 greyish, a curved minutely waved dark postmedial line. 



Hah. Sierra Leone {Morgan), 1^,15; S. Nigeria, Ilesha 

 {Humfreg), 1 $ type. E.xy. 44-46 millim. 



7705. Parallelia renalis. (Plate CCXX. fig. 3.) 



Ophiusa renalis, Hmpsn. Moths Ind. ii. p. 499 (1894), 



Head and thorax pale rufous ; mid and hind tarsi whitish ; 

 abdomen pale grey-brown, dorsally suff'used with fuscous brown 

 on basal half. Fore wing bright rufous, the terminal area whitish 

 tinged with rufous except at apex ; a curved red-brown subbasal 

 line from costa to submedian fold ; antemedial line red-brown, 

 slightly angled outwards below costa, then slightly incurved, a 

 slightly deeper rufous shade beyond it ; a slight dark discoidal bar ; 

 medial line indistinct, excurved to vein 4, then oblique and sinuous ; 

 postmedial line red-brown, oblique to vein 6, then inwardly 

 oblique, a conical greyish patch defined by red -brown beyond it on 

 costal area and an oblique brownish shade from the angle of 

 postmedial line to tornus ; a waved dark terminal line. Hind 

 wing greyish suffused with brown, the terminal area somewhat 

 paler and with traces of an oblique pale subterminal line from 

 vein 4 to tornus ; the underside whitish tinged with rufous, a 

 dark discoidal point and indistinct dark waved medial, postmedial, 

 and subterminal lines. 



