606 NOCTTJID^. 



reddisli brown, its inner edge curving outwards to inner margin at 

 the postmedial line, which is brown, obliquely downcurved and 

 defined on outer side slightly by w^hitish to vein 6 where it is 

 angled outwards, then defined by grey, incurved and sinuous, some 

 whitish points beyond it on costa ; an .oblique whitish streak 

 defined on inner side by black-brown from apex to vein 6 above 

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

 line ; the veins of terminal area slightly streaked with white ; an 

 indistinct dentate grey subterminal line from vein 6 to inner 

 margin incurved below vein 3; a crenulate brown terminal line 

 with black points before it in the interspaces. Hind wing brown ; 

 an indistinct oblique greyish subterminal line from vein 3 to 

 tornus ; the termen tinged with grey at middle ; a crenulate brown 

 terminal line ; cilia grey-white at tips towards apex ; the underside 

 brownish grey irrorated with brown, a dark discoidal point, 

 crenulate postmedial line, subterminal shade, and series of points 

 before termen. 



Hah. E. Siberia, Ussuri ; Corea, Gensan {Leech), 1 J . Exp. 

 44 millim. 



7762. Parallelia abnegans. (Plate CCXXI. fig. 20.) 



Ophiusa ahnegans, Wlk. xv. 1831 (1858). 



Head, thorax, and abdomen grey -brown with a reddish tinge ; 

 tegulee with the terminal half darker brown, the tips whitish ; 

 patagia with an obli{]ue dark line at middle edged with whitish 

 behind, the tips and a line across metathorax whitish, the meta- 

 thorax dark brown ; frons w^hitish at sides, the basal joint of 

 antennae whitish in front; pectus and ventral surface of abdomen 

 greyer, the latter with the crests blackish tipped with grey. Eore 

 wing greyish suffased with pale red-brown and wath slight dark 

 irroration ; a curved black subbasal striga from costa defined on 

 outer side by whitish ; antcmedial line black defined on outer side 

 by whitish and with blackish suffusion before it from costa to 

 just above inner margin becoming deep black and widening below 

 the cell, the line slightly excurved from costa to subinedian fold 

 and incurved at vein 1, a faint dark shade beyond it; a faint 

 dark discoidal bar; medial line dark, oblique to vein 4 and 

 slightly incurved at discal fold, incurved and waved below vein 4 ; 

 postmedial line double, blackish with I'ed-browm suffusion between 

 it and the medial line, and blackish suffusion at middle, oblique 

 and filled in with white from costa to vein 6, incurved and sinuous 

 from vein 4 to submedian fold, then excurved, two whitish points 

 beyond it on costa ; subterminal line pale denned on inner side by 

 black from costa to vein 6, above which the line is angled out- 

 Avards with a wedge-shaped black mark before it and an oblique 

 black mark beyond it from apex, below vein 6 the line is dentate 

 and produced to slight white streaks on the veins, bent outwards to 

 inner margin ; a crenulate brown terminal lino with a small black 



