596 NOCTUID.^. 



7746. Parallelia properans. (Plate CCXXI. fig. 8.) 



Ophiusa properaus, Wlk. xiv. 1426 (1858). 



Head, thorax, and abdomen grey-brown. Fore Aving with the 

 basal area grey-brown ; a faint dark subbasal line from cosfa to 

 submedian fold ; anteraedial line black-brown, excurved ; a white 

 medial band irrorated with brown, expanding at costa and inner 

 margin, a black discoidal point on it ; medial line dark, incurved, 

 the area bej-ond it dark brown to thepostmedial line, which is black 

 defined on outer side by white, obliquely downcurved to below vein 

 6 where it is angled outwards, then incurved, excurved between 

 veins 4, 3 and at vein 1 and ending on inner margin at the medial 

 line, some whitish points beyond it on costa; terminal area grey 

 suffused and irrorated with brown ; an oblique black-brown bar 

 from apex to vein 6, diffused on inner side and excurved above vein 

 6 ; a faint pale dentate subterminal line from vein 6 to inner 

 margin ; a series of black points before termen. Hind wing grey- 

 brown ; a slight blackish discoidal spot; an oblique whitish medial 

 shade from costa to inner margin and a slight whitish line from 

 vein 3 to tornus ; the termen grey except towards apex and tornus 

 with a series of black points just before termen ; cilia white, tinged 

 . with brown except below apex ; the underside grey suffused with 

 brown, a small black discoidal spot, curved dark postmedial line, 

 and indistinct subterminal shade. 



Hah. Transvaal, Piet Retief (J/?'S. Mercer), 1 cJ ; Natal, Durban 

 {Leigh, Boss), 2 S : Capr Colony {Sir A. Smith), 1 c? , 1 $ type, 

 Grahamstown {Tuch), 1 J . Exp. 44-52 millim. 



Larva. Ochreous thickly mottled with pale brown and with more 

 prominent pairs of small dark dorsal spots on abdominal somites ; 

 dorsal, subdorsal, lateral, and sublateral lines pale orange- 

 yellow ; a stigmatal stripe defined b)' fine white lines ; 11th somite 

 with slight hump ; head white mottled with small brown spots. 



7747. Parallelia algira. 



2\ociua nlqira, Linn. Svsf. Nat. ed. xii. p. 83fi (1767) ; Godt. Lep. Fr. v. 

 p. HI, 'pi. 53. f. 3; "Mill. Icones, ii. pi. 92. ff. 9, 10; Hinpsn. Moths 

 Ind. ii. p. 500 ; John, Hor. Soc. Ent. Ross, xsxix. p. 627, pi. xviii. f. 7 h, 

 xxi.f. 20, & xxiii. f. 42 ; Stand. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 245. 

 Is^octua achatina, Sulz. Abg. Ges. Ins. p. 160, pi. 22. f. 4 (1776). 

 Nociua iriavgnlaris, Hiibii. Eur. Schmett, Noct. f. 323 (1802). 

 Ophiusa torrida, Gnen. Koct. iii. p. 269 (1852). 

 Ophiusa alhivitta, Guen. Noct. iii. p. 271 (1852). 

 Ophiusa festina, Wlk. xiv. 1425 (1868). 

 Ophiusa olyonpia, Swinh. P. Z. S. 1885, p. 466. 

 Gramonodes algiroides, Schultz, Soc. Ent. xxii. p. 185 (1908). 



Head and thorax pale bronze-brown; pectus, legs, and abdomen 

 pale grey-brown. Fore wing with the basal area pale bronze-brown, 

 rather darker towards the antemedial line, which is dai-k brown 

 defined on outer side by white, excurved below the cell ; a medial 



