Noctuidae Catocaiinae— V IETTE 
151 
Loyalty Islands (coll. Mus. Hist. Nat. 
Paris ) . 
Also from Samoa, Tonga, and Fiji. 
ParaUelia joviana Stoll 
Fig. 9 a-d 
No etna joviana Stoll, Pap. Exot. 4: 237, pi 
399, B, 1782. 
Opbima joviana Stoll; Hampson, Fauna Brit. 
India, Moths 2: 499, 1894. 
ParaUelia joviana Stoll; Hampson, Cat. Lepid. 
PhaL B.M. 12: 571, fig. 132, 1913. 
ParaUelia joviana Stoll; Gaede, in Seitz 1 1 : 
485, jpl. 53 f, 1938. 
ParaUelia joviana Stoll; Viette, Pacific Science 
3(4): 331, 1949. 
Wing-spread 43-46 mm.; length of the 
anterior wings 20-22 mm. 
The head and thorax are purple-gray, 
more or less dark, while the abdomen is gray; 
the labial palpi and the underside of the body 
and the legs are fawn-gray. 
The anterior wings have a brownish gray 
background color; in the proximal third of 
the wing can be seen the red-brown sub- 
basal line, laterally edged by ochre-brown; 
this subbasal line does not extend beyond the 
costal half of the wing and there is an ante- 
medial line, formed in the same manner, 
slightly curved toward the inside; the post- 
medial line is whitish gray, at first almost 
perpendicular to the costa, then becoming 
undulate. Inward of this postmedial line is 
a large dark brown area, bordered by a semi- 
circular line, edged with a whitish gray space; 
the space between the postmedial line and 
the external margin is grayish brown with a 
dark brown spot at the apex, preceded, near 
the costa, by purplish gray. There is a mar- 
ginal series of black dots. 
The posterior wings are blackish gray, 
lighter basally and with the margin purplish 
gray in the abdomen angle area. 
The underside is ochre-brown irrorated 
with darker spots. 
Genitalia <$ : The tegumen is very nar- 
row and almost indistinct, with a long, 
strongly downcurved, and well-developed 
saccus (Fig. 9a); the uncus has a lateral tuft 
of bristles at its base; there is a well-devel- 
oped scaphium; the vinculum is reduced; the 
valvae (Fig. 9b) are modified; the costal part 
of the valva is changed into a long widened 
arm indented at its apex; the sacculus is long, 
filiform, bristled at its apex; the valvula is 
fully developed, clothed with bristles on its 
edges; lateral to the valva can be seen a long 
membranous bag, abundantly clothed with 
Fig. 9. ParaUelia joviana Stoll: a, tegumen, 
uncus, and anal tube; b, right valva; c, penis; d, 
clapper and ostium bursae. 
