PAEALLELIA. 



571 



■wing dark greyish brown, witli a faint oblique greyish bar from 

 vein 3 to tornus ; the termen faintly greyish except towards apex 

 and tornus wdth a fine dark terminal line, and pale line at base 

 of cilia. 



Hah. Gambia {Moloney), type t S in Col]. Druce. Exp. 46 

 millim. 



7711. Parallelia joviana. 



Noctua joviana, Sloll, Pap. Exot. iv. p. 237, pi. 399. f. B (1782) ; Moore, 

 Lep. Ceyl. iii. p. 175, pi. 170. ff. 9, 9fl; Hmpsn. Moths Ind. ii. p. 499. 

 Noct'ua sinuata, Fabr. Maut. Ins. ii. p. 145 (1787). 

 Ophiusa mynps, Guen. Noct. iii. p. 265 (1852). 



Head and thorax pale red-brown, the patagia with slight 

 oblique grey line near tips ; pectus, legs, and abdomen grey-brown, 

 the tarsi ringed with whitish, the abdomen with small sublateral 

 tufts of white scales on medial segments. Tore wing purplish 

 vrey suffused and irrorated with red-brown especially on basal 

 area, the outer part of medial area deep chocolate-brown ; subbasal 

 line brown defined on outer side by whitish, slightly excurved 



Fig. 132. — Tarallelia joviana, (^ . \. 



below costa and ending at submedian fold; antemedial line dark 

 brown defined on outer side by whitish, oblique and slightly 

 incurved ; medial line dark, incurved, defining the dark area which 

 extends to the postmedial dark line which is defined on outer side 

 by whitish, oblique to vein 6 where it is angled outwards, then 

 obliquely incurved, and excurved between veins 3, 2, to inner 

 margin at the medial line, some white points beyond it on costa; 

 an oblique black-brown shade diffused on inner side from apex to 

 vein 6 near the postmedial line where it is defined below by a 

 white streak; a faint oblique subterminal line from vein 6 to inner 



