GOO NOCTTTID^. 



from costa to vein 6 where it is angled outwards, tlien incurved ; an 

 obli(]ue black-brown shade diffused on iuner side from apex to vein 

 6 above which it is excurved, then bent inwards to the angle of 

 postmedial line ; traces of a dentate subterminal line from vein 6 

 to inner margin ; a fine dark terminal line. Hind wing red-brown 

 with a cupreous gloss ; the cilia grej^ish ; the underside with 

 indistinct curved dark postmedial line. 



Hah. U.8.A., Southern States ; Hab. xgn., 2 $ type redditara. 

 Ex£. 42 millim. 



7751. Parallelia similis. (Plate CCXXI. fig. 12.) 



Ophiusa similis, Guen. Noct. iii. p. 267 (1852) ; Smith, Ccit. Noct. N. Am. 



p. 319. 

 Ophiusa apicalis, Guen. Noct. iii. p. 267 (1852). 

 Graiiimodes concolor, Grote, Can. Eiit. xxv. p. 155 (1893). 



Head and thorax deep red-brown ; antennae with the shaft 

 whitish in front towards base ; abdomen paler red-brown. Fore 

 wing deep red-brown slightly irrorated with dark brown ; traces of 

 a red-brown antemedial line from costa to submedian fold, excurved 

 below costa ; traces of an incurved medial line ; an indistinct 

 postmedial brown striga from costa and traces of a postmedial line 

 slightly angled outwards at vein 6, then oblique ; traces of a pale 

 dentate subterminal line ; an oblique black-brown streak from apex 

 ending in a triangular spot on vein 6 ; the terminal area tinged 

 with greyish ; a series of slight blackish points before termcn. 

 Hind wing uniform deep red-brown. 



Ab. 1. apicalis. Fore wing with the area between the indistinct 

 medial and postmedial lines deep chocolate-brown. 



Bab. U.S.A., S. States, Georgia, 5 c? , 1 $ . Eaj). 46-48 millim. 



7752. Parallelia macrorhyncha, n. sp. (Plate CCXXI. fig. 13.) 



cS . Head and thorax grey suffused with reddish brown ; palpi 

 and frons darker brown ; pectus, legs, and abdomen grey-brown. 

 Fore wing grey tinged with brown and irrorated with blackish, 

 the outer part of medial area red-brown ; subbasal line blackish, 

 excurved below costa and ending at vein 1 ; antemedial line dark 

 brown, slightly excurved below costa, then oblique, a black-brown 

 bar before it in cell and triangular patch in submedian interspace ; 

 a dark diseoidal bar ; medial line dark, touching the upper end of 

 discoidal bar, then excurved beyond the cell and bent inwards 

 below it, excurved at vein 1 ; postmedial line blackish, obliquely 

 downcurved to just below vein 6 where it is strongly angled 

 outwards and defined on outer side by white, joining the sub- 

 terminal line at vein 6, below vein 6 slightly defined on outer side 

 by grey, oblique and slightlj' waved to vein 3, then incurved and 

 slightly sinuous, the costa beyond it blackish with some white 

 points on it; subterminal line whitish, oblique and defined on 



