PARALLELIA. 599 



7749. Parallelia erectata. (Plate CCXXL fig. 10.) 



Ophhisa ereciata, Hmpsn. Ann. S. Afr. Mus. ii. p. 341 (1902). 



Head and thorax grey suffused with red-brown ; tegulae slightly- 

 tipped with grey, the patagia with oblique grey line towards tips ; 

 palpi, pectus, legs, and abdomen grey-brown, the tarsi riuged with 

 whitish. Fore wing grey suffused with pale red-brown and with 

 slight dark irroration, the basal area and outer part of medial area 

 darlier red-brown ; subbasal line blackish defined on outer side by 

 whitish, angled outwards below costa, then sinuous and ending at 

 vein 1 ; antemedial line blackish defined on outer side by white, 

 slightly excurved below costa, then slightly outwardly oblique ; a 

 dark discoidal lunule ; medial line dark, oblique to vein 6, angled 

 inwards at discal fold, incurved and waved below vein 4 ; postmedial 

 line blackish defined on outer side by white, oblique and bisinuate 

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

 then strongly incurved and very slightly sinuous ; subterminal line 

 Avhitish with some red-brown suffusion before it on costal area and 

 three white points on costa, angled outwards at vein 7, then 

 excurved and with black spot before it above vein 6 met by an 

 oblique dark streak from apex, belowvein 6 the line represented by 

 slight white streaks on the veins; a fine crenulate brown terminal 

 line angled inwards to black points in the interspaces. Hind wing 

 grey tinged with cupreous brown ; a faint dark postmedial line ; a 

 whitish subterminal band except towards costa defined on each side 

 by dark suffusion which extends on apical area to termen ; a dark 

 terminal line ; cilia whitish tinged with red-brown ; the underside 

 gi'ey irrorated with red-brown, a slight discoidal spot, dark post- 

 medial line crenulate except on inner area, and faint pale 

 subterminal line. 



Ab. 1. Fore wing with the outer half of medial area paler and 

 with the black marks on costal area towards apex reduced. 



Hah. Bk. E. Africa, Muthambi {Craivshay), 1 c? type, M'gana 

 (Betton), 2 $ ; N.E. Rhodesia, Luangwa Valley (Neave), 3 J, 

 1 2 ; Tkansvaal, Lydenburg Distr., 1 5 • ^'*'7^- 36-40 millim. 



7750. Parallelia consobrina. (Plate CCXXI. fig. 11.) 



Ophiusa consobrina, Guen. Noct. iii. p. 268 (1852) ; Smith, Cat. Noct. N. 



Am. p. 319. 

 Ophiusa redditura, Wlk. xiv. 1435 (1858). 



2 . Head and thorax reddish brown tinged with purple-grey ; 

 pectus, legs, and abdomen greyish brown. Fore wing red-brown 

 tinged with purple-grey, the area beyond the antemedial line and 

 the terminal area purple-grey irrorated with brown ; antemedial 

 line brown slightly defined on outer side by white, curved ; traces of 

 a medial line excurved beyond the cell, then incurved ; postmedial 

 line brown defined on outer side by white, obliquely downcurved 



