582 Noci'uiDj;. 



a fine dark terminal line with black points before it at the inter- 

 spaces. Hind wing dark brown, the terraen and cilia white 

 between veins 6 and 2, with minute dark points before termeu and 

 a fine terminal line towards vein 2 below which there is a black- 

 brown lunule on termen defined on inner side by white. Underside 

 of fore wing brown, the costal area irrorated with violaceous white, 

 an obliquely curved dark subterminal shade arising from apex, the 

 termen violaceous white irrorated with brown except at tornus ; 

 hind wing brown irrorated with purple-grey, a faint dark post- 

 medial line and dark subterminal shade, termen as above. 



Hah. Brazil, Amazons, Para (Bates), 1 $ type, llio Janeiro in 

 Coll. Druce. Kty. 72 millim. 



7728. Parallelia purpurata. 



Dt/sffonia purpurata, Kaje, Trans. Ent. Soc. 1001, 23. 126, pi. v. f. 15. 



J. Head and teguloe pale red-brown, the thorax darker red- 

 brown ; pectus, legs, and abdomen dark brown slightly irrorated 

 with grey. Eore wing with the basal area dark red-brown defined 

 by the faint oblique dark antemedial line slightly defined on outer 

 side by purjole-grey ; the inner part of medial area pale red-brown 

 tinged with purple-grey, bj'oad at costa, very narrow at vein 1 and 

 broadening somewhat to inner margin, its outer edge incurved; a 

 black point in middle of cell ; outer part of medial area dark red- 

 brown; postmedialline whitish and oblique from costa to vein 6 where 

 it is very acutely angled outwards and met by an obliquely curved 

 dark streak diffused on inner side from apex, the line then fine, 

 red-brown slightly defined on inner side by purple-grey and strongly 

 incurved, some rufous suffusion beyond it defined bj' a faint 

 dentate line of oohreous scales ; some pale points on postmedial part 

 of costa ; the terminal area pale purple-grey except at apex, with a 

 subterminal series of ochreous and dark points on the veins and a 

 series of dark points defined by ochreous just before termen ; a 

 fine dark terminal line and fine ochreous line at base of cilia. 

 Hind wing dark brown, the termen narrowly purple-grey except 

 towards apex and tornus ; a fine dark terminal line and a whitish 

 line at base of cilia, which are purple-grey except at apex and 

 tornus. Underside red-brown irrorated with purple-grey except 

 the cell and inner area of fore wing. 



Hab. Trinidad (Kaye), 1 S type ; S.E. Peru, St. Domingo 

 {Ockenden), in Coll. Druce. Exp. 70 millim. 



7729, Parallelia axiniphora, n. sp. (Plate CCXX. fig. 18.) 



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

 grey-brown. Fore wing purplish grey thickly irrorated with red- 

 brown : subbasal line brown defined on outer side by whitish, 



