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202 Mr. A. G. Butler on 
In the ‘ Proceedings of the Zoological Society’ for 1867, 
Mr. Moore added three species to the genus—S. curvi- 
linea, S. rectilinea, and S. cyanivitta; and two other 
species, S. biocularis and S. catocaloides, he followed 
Walker in referring to T'avia, they being more like species 
placed by Walker in the latter genus than some of the 
forms of Sypna. 
In 1876 Felder and Rogenhofer brought out the 5th 
volume of the ‘Lepidoptera of the Novara,’ in which 
they followed Mr. Moore, and figured a Sypna allied to 
S. dubitaria as Tarvia (sic) martina. 
Lastly, in 1877, I described four species of Sypna from 
Japan in the 2nd volume of the ‘ Cistula Entomologica,’ 
and subsequently figured them in Parts II. and ILI. of 
the ‘ Illustrations of Typical Specimens of Lepidoptera- 
Heterocera,’ and, in 1880, I added a remarkable new 
form from Madagascar in the ‘ Annals and Magazine of 
Natural History.’ Nine new species from Darjiling and 
Assam remain to be described. 
List oF THE SpEcIES oF Sypna. 
1. Sypna mormoides, n. s. 
Allied to S. dubitaria, but as large as S. catocaloides ; 
primaries above dark brown, with very faint lilacine 
tinge, traversed by numerous pale sinuated lines, the 
basal half crossed by two irregular black-bordered dark 
brown bands; a third abbreviated band black, traversed 
by two irregular pale lines from the costa to the first 
median branch ; a fourth slightly zigzag and undulated 
black band traversed by an irregularly undulated pale 
line across the disc; a submarginal series of white-pupilled 
black spots followed by an undulated black marginal 
line; fringe dark brown, traversed by a basal, a central, 
and a marginal pale line; secondaries sericeous fuli- 
ginous-brown, the dise crossed by four or five macular 
parallel discal stripes, which are obsolete towards the 
costa, but gradually increase in intensity towards the 
abdominal border, becoming quite black below the second 
median vein, when they are also rendered more promi- 
nent by a background of lilacine scales; a submarginal 
undulated black line, interrupted below the radial vein 
by a series of five white dots; marginal black line and 
fringe as in the primaries; thorax above black-brown, 
irrorated and transversely striped with whitish ; abdomen 
