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in the female, crossed beyond the middle of the primaries 
by an oblique belt, and at the middle of the secondaries 
by an arched belt of four alternately dark brown and 
sordid white bands; the innermost band, however, is 
indistinct, particularly on the secondaries of the male, 
where it is also interrupted by a whitish disco-cellular 
lunule ; a broad curved discal belt, smoky brown in the 
male, blackish in the female, its outer edge very irregular, 
and forming two unequal projections to the outer mar- 
gin on the secondaries ; a submarginal series of lunate 
black dots ; fringe with dusky tips ; body below pale buff ; 
expanse of wings—male 2 inches 38 lines, female 2 inches 
4 lines. 
Darjiling (Lidderdale).—Type, B. M. 
5. Sypna omicronigera. 
Sypna omicronigera, Guenée, Noct. iii. p. 145, n. 1580 
(1852). 
Shillong, Assam, and Darjiling (Lidderdale).—B. M. 
6. Sypna celisparsa. 
Sypna celisparsa, Walker, Cat. Lep. Het. xiv. p. 1262, 
n. 4 (1857). 
Assam (Warwick).—Type, B. M. 
7. Sypna submarginata. 
Tavia submarginata, Walker, Cat. Lep. Het. Suppl. 3, 
p. 941 (1865). 
Darjiling (Lidderdale).—B. M. 
8. Sypna umbrosa, n. 8. 
Coloration of S. omicronigera; primaries dark smoky 
brown, faintly shot, to beyond the cell, with violet, and 
crossed by three nearly equidistant irregularly undulated 
and sinuated black lines, the second passing through the 
reniform spot, which is very indistinct and gr eenish j grey ; 
a submarginal series of small blackish-dotted whity 
brown spots; apical third of costal margin spotted with 
pale buff; fringe spotted, and with a basal line of pale 
buff ; secondaries pale brown, shining whitish towards 
the costa; thorax and dor sal abdominal tufts dark 
