PAEALLELIA, 573 



the underside o;rey suffused with red-brown, two slight waved dark 

 postmedial lines and a faint subterminal shade. 



Hah. SoLOiUON Is., Alu {Woodford), 2 $ type. E.vjk 54-58 

 millim. 



7713. Parallelia maturescens. (Plate CCXX. fig. 9.) 



Ophisma maiurescens, Wik. xiv. 1382 (1858) ; Hmpsn. Moths Incl. ii. p. 499. 



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

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

 Pore wing red-brown with a purple grey gloss beyond the ante- 

 raedial line and on terminal area ; traces of a greyish subbasal 

 line from costa to submedian fold ; antemedial line brown, straight, 

 erect ; postmedial line brown defined on outer side by purple-grey, 

 obliquely downcurved from costa to vein 6 where it is angled 

 outwards, then obliquely incurved, some pale points beyond it on 

 costa ; an oblique black-brown shade diflfused on inner side from 

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

 medial line; a faint dentate dark subterminal line produced to 

 slight whitish streaks on the veins, from vein 6 to inner margin ; 

 a slight dark terminal line with points before it in the interspaces. 

 Hind wing dark brown with a cupreous gloss, the termen tinged 

 with purple-grey at middle ; a faint greyish subterminal shade 

 from vein 4 to tornus ; a fine waved brown terminal line; the 

 ^^nderside with dark discoidal point and indistinct curved post- 

 medial line except on inner area. 



Hab. PcNJAB, Deyra Dhun, 1 5 ; Sikhim ; Assam, Khasis, 1 (^ , 

 Silhet (Stainsforth), 1^,2 $ type. Ex^). 52-54 millim. 



7714. Parallelia amygdalis. 



Bysgonia amygdalis, Moore, Lep. Ceyl. iii. p. 55], pi. 214. f . S (1887); 

 limpsn. Moths Ind. ii. p. 502. 



Head and thorax red-brown mixed with purple-grey ; pectus, 

 legs, and abdomen purple-grey tinged with brown. Fore wing 

 purple-grey suffused with cupreous brown, the terminal area pale 

 purple-grey except at apex ; antemedial line dark slightly defined 

 on outer side by purple-grey, inwardly oblique to submedian fold, 

 then outwardly oblique ; a diffused rather oblique purple-grey 

 medial band ; postmedial line dark, oblique and slightly defined on 

 outer side by purple-grey to vein 6, then obliquely incurved, some 

 whitish points beyond it on costa ; an oblique blackish streak from 

 apex to vein 6, diffused on inner side and excurved above vein 6 ; 

 a faint dentate whitish subterminal line produced to white points 

 on the veins from vein 6 to inner margin, the area beyond the 

 series of points pale purple grey ; a fine crenulate black terminal 

 line, angled inwards in the interspaces Avhere there are white 

 points beyond it. Hind wing grey-brown ; a purple-grey sub- 

 terminal line from vein 3 to inner margin ; the termen purple-grey 



