588 XOCTUIDiE. 



oblique wliito medial band from costa to inner margin ; a blackish 

 subterminal shade with some white beyond it towards tornus ; 

 terminal area whitish suffused with brown exce])t towards apex ; a 

 tine waved brown terminal line ; cilia white tinged with brown ; 

 the underside grey suffused with brown, a dark discoidal point, two 

 postmedial lines aud an indistinct w^aved subterminal shade. 



Ab. 1. Eore wing with the outer part of medial area darker. 



Hah. Br. N. Guinea, Port Moresby, 1 (5 ; Queensland, Towns- 

 ville (Dodd), 1 § ; N. Australia {Elsey), 2 d type, Port Darwin 

 (Buckland), 3 r? , 2 5 • H^a^J). 46-50 millim. Type t acutissima 

 in Coll. Bethune-Baker. 



7737. Parallelia staposa. 



Nocttm achatina. Cram. Pap. Exot. iii. p. 14j, pi. 21^. f. E (1782), 



nee Sulzer. 

 Nootiia stuposa, Fabr. Ent. Syst. iii. 2. p. 42 (1794) ; Mooi-e, Lep. Oejl. iii. 



p. 17t>, pi. 171. f. 7; Hmpsn. Moths Ind. ii. p. 5i)J. 

 O^hiuba festinata, Wlk. xiv. 1432 (1858). 



Head aud thorax pale reddish brown ; pectus, legs, and abdomen 

 paler and greyer. Eore wing wnth the basal area reddish brown, 

 darker towards the antemedial line, which is blackish, excurved 

 below the cell ; a broad whitish medial band tinged with red-brown 

 and with traces of a slight brown discoidal lunule on it ; the outer 

 part of medial area dark brown, very narrow below vein 3 ; post- 

 medial line black-brown defined on outer side by whitish, obliquely 

 incurved from costa to below vein 6 where it is angled outwards, 

 then incurved, excurved between veins 4, 3, to inner margin at the 

 medial band, two white points beyond it on costa ; the postmedial 

 area whitish suffused with pale brown, the terminal area whitish 

 irrorated with brown ; the veins slightly streaked with Avhite ; an 

 oblique conical chocolate-brown mark defined by white from apex 

 with a dentate spot below it above vein 6 ; traces of a dentate 

 whitish subterminal line from vein 6 to inner margin ; a series of 

 black points before the tine brown terminal line and a fine white line 

 at base of cilia. Hind wing dull reddish brown ; a narrow oblique 

 white band from middle of costa to inner margin towards tornus 

 and a faint whitish line from vein 3 to termeu near tornus; the 

 terminal area greyish except towards apex ; a series of black points 

 before the fine brown terminal line and a tine whitish line at base 

 of cilia ; the underside grey suffused and irrorated with reddish 

 brown, two curved slightly waved postmedial lines and an indistinct 

 waved whitish subterminal line defined on each side by brown. 



Hah. Japan, Tsuruga {Leech), 1 5 , Yokohama {Jonas, Maries), 

 2 (S , 1 $ ; Loo-CHoo Is. {Fryer), 1 J ; Formosa, 1 S ; Cente. 

 China, Shanghai {Fortune), 1 j, Kiukiang {Pratt), 1 c? ; W. 

 China, Chang-yang {Pratt), 1 $ , Washan yPratt), 1 § , Chia-kou- 

 ho {Pratt), 1 J, Ta-chien-lu {Pratt), 1 cJ ; Punjab, Allahabad, 

 1 S ; Bengal, Calcutta, 1 5 , Ganjam, 1 5 ; Madras, 1 $ , 

 Malabar, 1 $, Nilgiris (//rtHJjjsaji), 1 S ; Ceylon (7'eH?^7Ze;oM), 3 c? , 



