Noctuidae Catocalinae — VlETTE 
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color of reddish brown, more or less tinged 
with purplish gray, chiefly in the costal half. 
There are three transverse lines; the ante- 
medial is the most distinct, and is dark, edged 
laterally by lighter color; there is an indica- 
tion of a dark medial line; the postmedial 
line is formed, as is the antemedial, but at first 
it is perpendicular to the costa, then is deeply 
curved inward; the costal part, which is 
d 
Fig. 7. Parallelia redunca Swinhoe: a, tegu- 
men, uncus, and anal tube; b, right valva; c, penis; 
d, clapper and ostium bursae. 
darker in color, does not pass this line; the 
space exterior to the postmedial line is lighter 
in color, with, in the male, a black spot on 
a level with Mi; there is also a marginal se- 
ries of little black points; the cilia are dark. 
The posterior wings are blackish gray with 
an indication of gray bands, in the middle 
and at the anal angle, both perpendicular to 
the abdominal edge. 
The underside is gray-white with the post- 
medial line only slightly indicated. 
Genitalia <3 : It is narrow and high; the 
lateral parts of the ninth urite are narrow dor- 
sally; the uncus (Fig. la) is strongly modi- 
fied, consisting of plates raised vertically, 
abundantly clothed with bristles on the ros- 
tral side and carrying a strong dorsal tooth 
on the caudal side; the scaphium is well con- 
stituted; the vinculum is reduced; the valvae 
(Fig. lb) are rather complex, having a well- 
defined sacculus; there is a simple valvula, 
which is slightly pointed and turned at its 
apex; the costal part is strongly denticulated 
with a sharp, sclerotized and well-colored 
apex; laterally, at the basis of the valvae, is 
a membranous bag clothed with bristles; the 
penis (Fig. 1 c) is strongly curved dorsally in 
its rostral part, its caudal part is very much 
sclerotized; there are no cornuti. 
Genitalia 9 : The lobes of the oviporus 
are but slightly developed as are the posterior 
apophyses, which are hardly sclerotized; the 
eighth urite shows short and clearly visible 
anterior apophyses, but the development of 
the seventh tergite is characteristic; its edges, 
on the ventral side, are folded, thus delimit- 
ing a kind of chamber closed by a clapper 
that has the shape of a lengthened trapezoid 
and whose caudal edge is slightly curved in 
the middle; the ostium bursae opens at the 
end of a well-colored and highly sclerotized 
conduit (Fig. Id); the ductus bursae and the 
bursa copulatrix are membranous. 
New Hebrides (coll, de Joannis). 
Hampson (1913) cites this species from 
Dutch New Guinea and Queensland. 
