PAKAIJ-ELIA. 607 



spot before it at submedian fold ; a pale line at base of cilia. 

 TTind wing grey-brown with an oblique whitish line from vein 2 

 to tornus ; cilia whitish tinged with brown, browner at middle ; 

 the underside grey suffused with brown,, two faint minutely 

 waved postmedial lines and traces of a pale waved subterminal 

 line. 



Hah. SiRKRA Leone (Morgan), 1 S type; Br. E. Africa, Tanga 

 (HolUs), 1 2 ■ E^W- 38 miilim. 



7763. Parallelia prorasigna, n. sp, (Plate CCXXI. fig. 19.) 



5 . Head and thorax grey tinged with red-brown ; pectus, legs, 

 and abdomen grey-brown. Fore wing grey-brown irrorated with 

 blackish, the basal area and outer half of medial area darker; sub- 

 basal line blackish, sinuous, from costa to submedian fold ; ante- 

 medial line black, oblique, slightly excurved below costa and angled 

 inwards at median nervure ; a sinuous dark medial line defining 

 the inner side of the dark area, and a faint dark diseoidal bar ; 

 postmedial line black defined on outer side by grey, obliq\ie towards 

 costa, produced to a point at vein 6, then excurved, incurved and 

 slightly sinuous below vein 4, the costa beyond it blackish with 

 white points on it; subterminal line whitish defined on inner side 

 by fuscous brown, oblique towards costa, angled outwards below 

 vein 7, where there is a dentate black spot on its inner side, then 

 slightly waved, incurved below vein 3, and with a minute black spot 

 on its inner side at submedian fold ; an oblique black bar from 

 apex; a fine waved dark terminal line with a small black spot at 

 submedian. fold, and a fine pale line at base of cilia. Hind wing 

 grey suffused with brown ; indistinct sinuous pale postmedial and 

 subterminal lines from discal fold to inner margin, the former 

 defined on inner side, the latter on each side by darker brown ; a 

 fine dark te2'mi?ial line and whitish line at base of cilia; the under- 

 side grey irrorated with brown, a dark diseoidal striga and slightly 

 waved sinuous medial, postmedial, and subterminal lines. 



Hah. IlGAisrnA, Unyora, Kafa R. {Nmve), 1 5 fjP^- ^-'y- 

 36 millira. 



7704. Parallelia simillima. 



Ophiusa sioniUima, Guen. Noct. iii. p. 26B(1852); Moore, Lep. Ceyl. iii. 

 p. 178, pi. 170. f. 8 ; Hmpsn. Moths Ind. ii. p. 500. 



Head and thorax pale i-ed-brown, the patagia with slight oblique 

 whitish line at middle ; pectus, legs, and abdomen greyish brown, 

 the last with the crests blackish and grey at tips. Fore wing grey- 

 brown with a faint reddish tinge and some dark irroration, the 

 basal area rather darker brown with blackish suft'usion before the 

 antemedial line from cell to just above inner margin ; subbasal line 



