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margin, with slight dark marks at the veins with white streaks 

 be5-ond them ; a slight brown terminal line with minute blackish 

 points before it in the interspaces ; cilia dark brown with a fine 

 whitish line at base. Hind wing dark greyish brown ; an oblique 

 whitish subterminal line from vein 3 to tornus ; the termen tinged 

 with grey except towards apex and tornus ; a fine brown terminal 

 line and whitish line at base of cilia ; the underside greyish 

 suifused with reddish brown, two indistinct dark postmedial 

 lines waved towards costa, and a faint waved whitish subterminal 

 line. 



Ab. 1. Fore wing with the outer medial area not darker than 

 the ground-colour, the postmedial line defined on inner side by 

 dark brown. 



Ilah. Loo-CHOO Is. {Pryer), 5 c? , Assam {BachjJey), 1 cT ; Bengal, 

 Ganjam, 1$; Bombay, 1$, Kutch, 1<S, Kanara {Ward), 1$; 

 Madras, 2 $, Malabar, 1 $, JSfilgiris (Hampson), 1 J , 1 $; 

 Ceyloist (Templeton), 2$ ; Btjkma, Moulmein (OlerJc), 1 2 , Rangoon 

 (Noble),! 2; Andamais^s ; Java {Horsfield), 2 $ ; Ke Is., 2 c? ; 

 Br. N. Guinea, Ekeikei {Pratt), 1 S , Mt. Kebea {Pratt), 2 $ , 

 Milne Bay {Meek), 1 J ; D'Enteecasteaux Is., Eergusson I. 

 {Meek), 1 ^ ; Queensland, Brisbane {Turne?-), 1 $ , Gympie, 1 2 • 

 Loyalty Is., Lifu, 1 $ . Ea^jj. 50-56 millim. 



Larva. Bluish grey above, yellowish ventrally, sparsely spotted 

 with black; the 4th somite with larger sublateral spot; 11th 

 somite with pair of red dorsal prominences ; head grey spotted with 

 black ; the 1st two pair of prolegs rudimentary. Food-plant, 

 PhyUanihus. 



Pupa with white efflorescence. 



7712. Parallelia solomonensis, n. sp. (Plate CCXXII. fig. 2.) 



2 . Head and thorax pale red-brown ; pectus, legs, and abdo- 

 men grey-brown. Fore wing grey suffused with red-brown ; a 

 faint dark sinuous subbasal line from costa to submedian fold ; 

 antemedial line red-brown, oblique, straight ; medial line oblique, 

 straight, the area beyond it deep red-brown to the postmedial line, 

 which is dark brown, obliquely downcurved and defined on outer 

 side by white to below vein 6 where it is angled outwards, then 

 indistinctly double filled in with whitish, incurved, slightly excurved 

 at vein 2, then incurved to inner margin near the medial line, 

 some whitish points beyond it on costa ; an oblique brown shade 

 diffused on inner side and defined on outer side by whitish from 

 apex to vein 6 where it is bent inwards to near the angle of post- 

 medial line ; an indistinct dentate whitish subterminal line from 

 vein 6 to inner margin, diffused at middle ; a series of slight 

 black points before termen and a fine pale line at base of cilia. 

 Hind wing grey-brown ; an oblique whitish line from vein 2 to 

 termen near tornus ; the termen greyish at middle with a slight 

 waved brown terminal line and fine whitish line at base of cilia ; 



