TARATXELIA. 603 



then obliquely incurved and excurved just below vein 2, two 

 minute pale points beyond it on costa ; the postmedial area suffused 

 with pale red-brown ; an oblique conical black-brown patch from 

 apex defined on inner side by wliite, and with a blackish spot 

 below it above vein 6 ; an indistinct dentate whitish subterminal 

 line from vein 6 to inner margin ; a fine crenulate brown terminal 

 line angled inwards to points in the interspaces ; cilia tinged with 

 fuscous at middle. Hind Aving grey-brown with a slight cupreous 

 gloss ; a slight luuulate dark terminal line with some grey before 

 it at vein 2 and at tornua ; the underside grey suffused witli 

 brown, a slight discoidal spot, very indistinct minutely waved 

 postmedial line, and waved subterminal shade. 



Hab. Gold Coast, Kumasi {Whiteside), 1 $; Uoanda (Doggett), 

 1 5; Germ. E. Afeioa, Itumba ([Vood), 1 c? ; Be. C. Africa, 

 Zomba {Johnston), 2 S , M'laugi Boma (Neave), 2 c? , 2 § ; Natal, 

 J)urban (GoocJl), 2 5; Cape Colony {Drege), 1 c? j 1 2 tj'pe ; 

 Madagascar. Kvj). 36-38 millim. Type t $ cliiliensis in Mus. 

 Paris labelled " Port JNatal " and agreeing exactly with Gueuee's 

 description. 



7757. Parallelia mesonephele. 



Oph'msa mesonephele, Ilmpsn. P. Z. S. 1910, p. 422, pi. xxxvii. f. 23. 



$ . Head, thorax, and abdomen brown tinged with purplish 

 grey; palpi white at extreme tips; tarsi ringed with whitish. 

 Fore wing brown suffused with pur])le-grey ; antemedial line 

 black, rather diffused on inner side, straight, erect ; postmedial 

 line with band of black sufi'usion before it, excurved at discal and 

 submedian folds, some pale points beyond it on costa ; two 

 obliquely placed dentate subapical black spots with traces of a 

 waved line from them to inner margin ; a fine waved dark 

 terminal line. Hind wing grey-brown with fine waved dark ter- 

 minal line ; the underside grey-brown with slight dark irroration 

 and traces of a curved postmedial line. 



Hah. N.E. Uhodesia, Chambezi Valley {Neave), 1 J type, 

 Mansya 11. {Neave), Mpika {Neave), 1 $ . Exp. 36 millim. 



7758. Parallelia goniopliora. 



Ophiusa goniophora, Hmpsn. P. Z. S. 1910, p. 422, pi. xxxvii. f. 15. 



S - Head and thorax ochreous grey mixed with black ; pectus 

 ochreous white ; tarsi fuscous with pale rings ; abdomen dorsally 

 fuscous, ventrally ochreous white. Pore wing gre3'-brown with a 

 purplish tinge, the basal half irrorated with black, the area 

 between the medial and postmedial lines suffused with black- 

 brown becoming velvety black at the postmedial line ; traces of a 

 fuscous sinuous subbasal line from costa to veiji 1 ; antemedial 

 line indistinctly double, blackish, sinuous ; medial lino diffused, 



