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especially about cellule 3, where it is broadened to an acute 

 angle almost touching the terminal lunule. Hind wing 

 unusually rounded off at apex, much more uniformly darkened 

 than in suhsignata, with only very faint traces of the pale 

 postmedial line and subterrainal half line, though the dark 

 borders of the lines at and towards hind margin are weakly 

 represented; anterior end of fringe whitish, interrupted by 

 dark shading at vein C and almost entirely darkened from just 

 before SC^ Underside a good deal as in suhsignata, but more 

 diffused, the postmedial line and border of hind wing less 

 oblique at costa. 



Mt. Murud, November — 1 cf . 



Probably nearest to suhsignata and to S. coelisparsa Wlkr., 

 Spec. Lep. Ins., xiv, p. 1262, 1858, Assam. 



53. Sypna anisomeris sp. n. 



cf . 9 47-56 mm. 



Antenna nearly as in the preceding species but with the 

 ciliation slightly longer. Palpus with segment 3 unusually 

 lon<::f. nearly one-third as long again as segment 2. 



Coloration and markings somewhat as in the preceding 

 species but the lines more ochraceous, bordered here and there 

 with metallic-blue, the proximal border of subterminal paler, 

 much broader than in sv.hrotunda, the distal black border 

 narrower, less produced in cellules 7, 6 and 3; the medial 

 dark band is rather broader but even less conspicuous than 

 in subrotitnda ; reniform much more distinct, with ochraceous 

 outline somewhat as in rho-Iatinum but less distinctly 

 R-shaped. Hind icing much paler than in sitbrotunda but 

 more distinctly darkened towards termen, with the sub- 

 terminal half-line better defined ; the fringe pale at base and 

 tips but more or less darkened at middle throughout. 

 Underside largely suffused with fuscous, with the postmedial 

 line diffused, nearly straight (not distally broadened) on fore 

 wing, leaving an unusually broad dark border on both wings; 

 the pale areas more darkened than in any of the neighbouring 

 species. 



Mt. Murud, 6000-6500 feet, October-November— 3 cT, 

 29 ; November, without elevation — 19- The type is from 

 6000-6500 feet, November. 



Near to suhrotimda, but the third segment of palpus is 

 longer, fore wing rather broader and hind wing less rounded 

 off at apex. See also differences mentioned above. 



