rAEALLELIA. 577 



irrorated with red-brown on basal area and on costal area to 

 beyond the antemedial line, the postmedial area deep chocolate- 

 brown, the terminal area pale violaceous brown except at apex ; 

 an oblique whitish subbasal line from costa to submedian fold ; 

 antemedial line double, red-brown filled in with purple-grey, 

 oblique, straight; medial line red-brown, erect, straight defining the 

 dark area ; postmedial line double, red-brown filled in with purple- 

 grey, obliquely downcurved from costa to vein 6 where it is angled 

 outwards and met by a very oblique black-brown streak from 

 apex, difi'iised to costa towards apex, the line then obliquely 

 incurved ; traces of a dentate whitish subterminal line from vein 6 

 to inner margin produced to whitish points on the veins ; a fine 

 crenulate red-brown terminal line. Hind wing reddish brown, the 

 inner area with a faint blue-grey gloss ; the termen tinged with 

 blue-grey except towards apex and tornus ; a fine waved brown 

 terminal line ; the underside red-brown slightly irrorated with grej', 

 the inner and terminal areas tinged with grey, two indistinct red- 

 brown postmedial lines waved on costal half, a series of minute 

 black points before termen. 



Hah. CoEEA, Gensan ylto), 1 5 ; Centk. China, Shanghai (Pn/ej^), 

 1 $ , Kiukiang (Pratt), 2 d , 2 $ , Ship-y-shdn, 2d'; W. China, 

 Ta-chien-lu (Pratt), 1 J; AssAir, Khasis (Bad(fley), 1 o' , 1 $ ; 

 Bengal, Calcutta ; Bombay ; Madras, Nilgiris ; Penang (Sir W. 

 Morris), 1 c? type. Exp. 51-64 millim. 



7721. Parallelia acuta. 



OpMusa acuta, Moore, P. Z. S. 1883, p. 27, pi. G. f . 5 ; Hiiipsn. Moths 

 Ind. ii. p. 498. 



Head and thorax red-brown tinged with grey ; patagia with a 

 slight dark and white line near tips ; pectus, legs, and abdomen 

 grey -brown. Fore wing red-brown slightly irrorated with purple- 

 white ; a small tuft of white-tipped scales at base of vein 1 ; sub- 

 basal line brown defined on outer side by whitish, oblique, from 

 costa to submedian fold ; antemedial line red-brown defined on each 

 side by purplish white, oblique to vein 1, then very oblique ; medial 

 line with a broad band of purple-white suffusion before it, inwardly 

 oblique, the area between it and the postmedial line deep chocolate- 

 brown ; postmedial line brown defined on outer side by violaceous 

 white, oblique to vein 6 where it is angled outwards, then inwardly 

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

 streak diffused on inner side from apex to vein 6 where it is con- 

 nected by a white streak with the angle of the postmedial line ; an 

 indistinct pale dentate subterminal line from vein 6 to inner margin, 

 produced to white points on the veins and with some ochreous at 

 inner margin ; the terminal area sufl^used with purplish white ; a 

 series of slight dark points before termen and a fine dark terminal 

 line ; a fine pale line at base of cilia. Hind wing reddish brown, 



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