•232 NOCTUID MOTHS 



Fore wing very boldly marked, with two black patches, 

 two or three small spots and a horizontal lunule on hind 

 margin near base ; somewhat erect but strongly dentate broad, 

 black antemedial and postmedial lines, with a spot between 

 them on costa, joined by a bar on M, angled away from 

 each other in cell and fold and approaching one another at 

 hind margin ; orbicular a black spot joined to the bar on 

 M ; reniform a perpendicular bar across angle of postmedial 

 line ; a large spot on costa and erect streaks with spots 

 behind them in cell and fold beyond the postmedial line ; 

 subterminal line waved, bFoad, thickened and angled 

 inward to the preceding line at cell and fold, joined to termen 

 by a broad patch about E\ Hind wing smoky-grey on 

 distaf anterior half, with veins fuscous. Underside with 

 yellow hair very pale, covering most of the cell of 

 hind wing; both wings broadly black at and behind apex, 

 in addition to the normal black markings. 



Summit of Mt. Murud, 7200 feet, November— 1 cf . 



A handsome species, one of the most interesting of all the 

 Noctuidae in this collection. 



Ophiderinae. 



49. Sypna lucilla Btlr. 



Sypna lucilla Btlr., Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond., 1881, p. 206, Sikkim. 



Mt. Murud, November — 1 9 • 



An Indian insect, not previously know^n to me from the 

 Malayan subregion, but the $ from Mt. Mm'ud seems to 

 match well with some Indian 9 • Like many Sypna species 

 is distinctly variable. 



a 



50. Sypna rho-latinum sp. n. 



cT, 9 62 mm. 



Male antenna subpectinate with evenly set ciliation from 

 the sides of each tooth and a long fascicle of cilia from the 

 end, the shaft deeply lamellate beneath. Both sexes with 

 fore wing rich dark brown with the lines and an oval patch 

 just before middle of termen tinged with pale rufous, one (f 

 with the subterminal proximally enlarged to a broad rufous 



