378 NOCTUiD.^i:. 



the termen suffused with purple-white except towards apex and 

 tornus; a fine brown terminal line with points at the interspaces 

 and pale line at base of cilia ; the underside irrorated with purple- 

 white, a slight dark discoidal spot, indistinct waved postmedial line 

 and maculate ochreous subterminal line excurved at vein 6. 

 Hah. Assam, Khdsis, I J , 1 $ . Exp. J 58, $ 62 millim. 



7722. Parallelia conjunctura. (Plate CCXX. fig. 14.) 



Opkiusa conjunctura, Wlk. xv. 1830 (1858). 



Bysgonia ncptunia, Holl. Psyche, vii. p. 84, pi. iii. f. 9 (1894). 



Head, thorax, and abdomen red-brown ; pectus, legs, and ventral 

 surface of abdomen grey-brown, the spurs ringed with whitish and 

 the tarsi whitish below, the base of abdomen whitish and minute 

 lateral tufts of white scales on terminal segments. Fore wing 

 purple-grey suflTused with reddish brown, the basal area rather 

 darker ; a slight whitish subbasal line, angled outwards below costa 

 and ending at submedian fold ; antemedial line dark brown slightly 

 defined on outer side by whitish, slightly excurved below the cell ; 

 medial line whitish, strongly incurved, the area between it and the 

 postmedial line deep chocolate-brown ; postmedial line whitish and 

 obliquely downcurved from costa to vein 6 where it is strongly 

 angled outwards, then slight, dark, double and obliquely incurved 

 to inner margin at the medial line, some Avhite points beyond it on, 

 costa ; an oblique whitish streak defined on inner side by diffused 

 dark brown from apex to vein 6, then bent inwards to the angle 

 of the postmedial line ; a subterminal series of slight dark and 

 whitish streaks on the veins below the costal patch ; a fine dark 

 line just before terracn angled inwards in the interspaces. Hind 

 Aving dark brown ; traces of an oblique greyish striga at tornus ; a 

 fine dark terminal line and pale line at base of cilia ; the under- 

 side brown slightly irrorated with grey ; a faint waved dark 

 postmedial line, traces of a waved grey line towards tornus, and a 

 series of black points before termen. 



Hah. SiEERA Lkoxe {Morgan), 2 $ type ; Gold Coast, TCumasi 

 (Whiteside), 1 $ ; Gaboon, Ogove R. : Uganda, Entebbe (3Iinchin), 

 1 c? ; Natal, Durban {Afarlet/, Clark), 1 d , 1 ? . Exp- 44-50 

 millim. 



7723. Parallelia curvata. 



Ophiusa curvata, Leech, P. Z. S. 1889, p. 516, pi. 53. f. 8. 



Head and thorax red-brown, the patagia with a slight oblique 

 grey line towards tips ; pectus, legs, and abdomen purplish brown, 

 the last with small sublateral tufts of white scales on medial seg- 

 ments. Fore wing with the basal area red-brown, darker towards 

 the antemedial line ; subbasal line dark brown defined on outer 

 side by grey, excurved below costa, then oblique and ending at 



