PAKALLELIA. O/O 



7717. Parellelia absentimacula. (Plate CCXX. fig. 12.) 



Naxia absentimartula, Guen. Noct. iii. p. 255 (1852); Hmpsu. Moths Ind. 

 ii. p. 498. 



Head and thorax pale rufous ; pectus, legs, and abdomen vvhitisb. 

 tinged with rufous. Fore wing pale rufous suffused with violaceous 

 grej^ especially on medial area and terminal area except at apex ; 

 a slight whitish subbasal line from costa to vein 1 ; antemedial 

 line red-brown defined on inner side by grey, straight, oblique ; 

 medial line red-brown, sinuous, incurved at lower angle of cell ; 

 postmedial line red-brown defined on outer side by grey, oblique 

 below vein 6 and slightly bent outwards to inner margin ; a faint 

 pale dentate subterminal line; a series of slight blackish points before 

 termen. Hind wing pale grey tinged with brown, the postmedial 

 area suffused with brown, expanding on apical area to termen ; a 

 grey subterminal line from vein 3 to termen at vein 1 defined by 

 some dark irroration beyond itj a fine dark terminal line with 

 minute points at the interspaces; cilia grey-white; the underside 

 whitish, the costal area tinged with red-brown, a dark discoidal 

 point, traces of waved medial and postmedial lines ori costal half, 

 a series of black points before termen. 



Hah. N. Assam, Dibrugrah {Ward), 1 cT ; Ceylon, 1 5 , Kandy 

 ( Yerbury), 1 (5 ; Anuamans ; Java {Horsfield), 4 cJ , 3 $ type ; 

 Br. N. Guinea, Ekeikei (Piatt), 2 (5,2 2; D'Entrecasteaitx Is., 

 Fergusson I. (Meeh), 1 c? , 1 $ ; Thobriand Is., Kiriwini (Meek), 

 2 2- Exjy. 46-54 millim. 



Larva. Ochreous with numerous striated lines, brownish on 

 dorsum, reddish at sides; 11th somite with a pair of dorsal 

 prominences ; head reticulated with scarlet. 



Pupa covered with violaceous white bloom, in a leaf spun up. 



7718. Parallelia lilacea. (Plate CCXX. fig. ]3.) 



Ophittsa lilacea, Beth.-Baker, Nov. Zool. xiii. p. 266 (1906). 



S . Head and thorax pale rufous slightly mixed with white ; 

 pectus and legs whiter, abdomen pale grey tinged with rufous, the 

 anal tuft whitish. Fore wing whitish suffused with pale rufous 

 and with slight dark irroration, the outer half deeper rufous except 

 the termen which is white ; faint traces of an oblique waved ante- 

 medial line ; a white point in end of cell ; a straight rather 

 inwardly oblique black-brown line just beyond the cell from costa 

 to inner margin, followed by a slight dark line from costa to vein 5 ; 

 postmedial line black-brown slightly defined by white ou outer side, 

 indistinct towards costa, sinuous to vein 6, then incurved and 

 closely approximated to the straight line, some white points beyond 

 it on costa; faint traces of a waved white subterminal line, incurved 

 below costa and with small black spot before it below vein 7 ; a 

 series of black points just before termen. Hind wing with the 



