PAEALLELIA. 569 



discal fold to inner margin and traces of a subterminal shade ; 

 cilia with a fine pale line at base and whitish tips ; the underside 

 irrorated with whitish, a faint waved dark postmedial line, the 

 terminal area whiter with waved inner edge and series of black 

 points before termen. 



Ah. 1. Grey-brown without any reddish tinge. 



Hah. Gold Coast (Johnston), 1 § , Bibianaha (Spurrell), 1 S > 

 Prahsu, 1 $> , Kumasi ( Whiteside), 1 S ; FR- Gthnea, type t S 

 orthcea in Coll. Mabille ; S. Nigekia, Old Calabar {Crompton), 1 J , 

 1 9 . Exp. 52-58 millim. 



7708. Parallelia dentilinea. (Plate CCXX. fig. 6.) 



Ophiusa dentilinea, Beth. -Baker, Not. Zool. xiii. p. 257 (1906). 



$ . Head and thorax dark red-brown mixed with grey ; tarsi 

 ringed with whitish ; abdomen grey-brown, the ventral surface 

 dark brown irrorated with whitish. Fore wing deep red-brown 

 irrorated with ochreous ; subbasal line ochreous white, escurved 

 below costa and ending at submedian fold ; antemedial lino 

 ochreous white, defined by blackish on outer side from costa to 

 median nervure, oblique, sinuous ; orbicular a minute pure white 

 spot defined by black ; an oblique sinuous ochreous white medial 

 line ; the outer half of medial area deep chocolate-brown ; post- 

 medial line white, oblique from costa to discal fold where it is 

 sharply angled outwards and slightly angled inwards at vein 6, 

 then inwardly oblique and slightly angled inwards at veins 4 and 3, 

 then excurved and again angled inwards at vein 1, some pale 

 points beyond it on costa ; an oblique black shade from apex with 

 traces of the waved whitish subterminal line before it, with two 

 small black spots surrounded by white scales at veins 4 and 3 and 

 defined on each side by blackish towards inner margin ; a dark 

 shade on middle of terminal area ; a fine crenulate dark terminal 

 line with black points in the interspaces ; a fine pale line at base 

 of cilia. Hind wing black-brown with a greyish tinge; a slight 

 oblique grey bar at tornus ; a minutely waved black terminal 

 line slightly defined by grey on inner side from vein 4 to sub- 

 median fold ; cilia ochreous white with fuscous patches at apex, 

 middle and towards tornus ; the underside greyish thickly irrorated 

 with fuscous, a slight discoidal point and indistinct minutely 

 waved postmedial and subterminal lines, the latter defined by 

 small grey lunules on outer side. 



Hub. Br. X. Guinea, Mt. Kebea {Pratt), 1 $ . E.vp. 52 millim. 

 Type t $ in Coll. Bethune-Baker. 



7709. Parallelia subacuta. (Plate CCXX. fig. 7.) 



Ophiusa suhacuta, Betli.-Baker, Nov. Zool. xiii. p. 258 (1906). 



Head and thorax red-brown, the tegulte slightly grey at tips 

 and the patagia with slight oblique grey line at middle ; pectus, 



