570 



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legs, and abdomen dark greyish brown, the tarsi with pale rings 

 and the abdomen with small sublateral white tufts on medial 

 segments. Fore wing with the basal ai'ea red-brown ; subbasal 

 line represented by a faint pale curved striga from costa ; ante- 

 medial line dark brown, oblique, straight, followed by' a grey band 

 suffused with red-brown and very slightly expanding at costa and 

 inner margin ; the outer part of medial area deep chocolate-brown 

 to the postmedial line, which is dark brown defined on outer side 

 by whitish, obliquely downcurved from costa to below vein 6 

 where it is angled outwards, then oblique to vein 2 and incurved 

 to inner margin at the medial band, some white points beyond it 

 on costa; au oblique black-brown thade diffused on inner side 

 from apex to vein 6 near the postmedial line, excurved above 

 vein 6 ; a faint oblique brown subtermiual line from vein 6 to 

 inner margin, with small blackish spots at veins 4, 3; a fine 

 waved brown terminal line with black points at the interspaces; 

 cilia grey-brown with a fine pale line at base. Hind wing dark 

 greyish brown ; an oblique whitish subtermiual line from vein 3 

 to tornus ; the termen slightly tinged with grey at middle ; a fine 

 brown terminal line and whitish line at base of cilia, which are 

 whitish at tips towards apex ; the underside grey-brown irro- 

 rated with whitish, a faint dark discoidal spot, slightly Avaved 

 medial and postmedial lines, and a faint waved whitish subterminal 

 line. 



Ab. 1. Fore wing with more or less violaceous white suffusion 

 on medial area before and beyond the medial line. 



Bab. Be. N, Guinea, Aroa 11. {Med), 1 J , Dinawa (Pratt), 

 1 c? , 2 $ , Ekeikei (Pratt), 2 J , 1 ? , Mt. Kebea (Pratt), 2 c? , 1 ? . 

 E^y. 46-52 millim. 



*7710. Parallelia arcifera. (Plate CCXX. fig. 8.) 



Parallelia arcifera, Druce, A. M. N. H. (S) ix. p. 554 (1912). 



c? . Head, thorax, and abdomen grey-brown ; legs with the 

 spurs and tarsi ringed with whitish. Fore wing purplish grey- 

 brown ; subbasal line whitish defined on inner side by dark brown, 

 from costa to submedian fold ; antemedial line whitish defined 

 on inner side by dark brown, slightly excurved below the cell ; 

 outer half of medial area dark brown defined on inner side by the 

 medial line which is incurved, and on outer side by the whitish 

 postmedial line, which is oblique and slightly sinuous to vein 6 

 where it is acutely angled outwards, then incurved, excurved at 

 vein 2 and reaching inner margin close to the medial line, some 

 whitish points beyond it on costa ; an oblique dark shade from 

 apex diffused on inner side, excurved above vein 6 on which it is 

 bent inwards to near the angle of the postmedial line ; traces of 

 a pale waved subterminal line from vein 6 to inner margin with 

 a slight dark shade before it below^ vein 3 ; a fine dark terminal 

 line angled inwards to slight points in the interspaces. Hind 



