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veins, a very irregular black line, followed by a sub- 
marginal series of black lunules, spotted externally with 
pale buff; fringe smoky brown; secondaries with the 
basal area to the central dusky line creamy yellowish, 
with brassy and opaline reflections, but the interno- 
median area densely clothed with pale brown hair; a 
rather broad band just beyond the middle, its upper half 
creamy yellowish, its lower half pinky white, traversed, 
from the abdominal margin, by an abbreviated grey line ; 
a broad tapering blackish discal band; external area 
testaceous, mottled with brown ; submarginal markings 
and fringe as in the primaries ; veins shot with lilacine ; 
thorax whity brown ; abdomen smoky brown, with whitish 
hind margins to the segments; under surface creamy 
whitish ; primaries with the costal and external borders, 
and the apical area, speckled with black; three blackish 
abbreviated stripes, the two first parallel and oblique, the 
third transverse and slightly irregular; fringe dusky ; 
a submarginal series of black dots; secondaries speckled 
with black, crossed in the middle by two slender 
undulated and obtusely angulated blackish lines; dise 
crossed by a slightly sinuous diffused blackish band ; 
a submarginal series of black dots; fringe greyish 
towards the anal angle; expanse of wings, 2 inches 
3 lines. 
Darjiling (Iidderdale).—Type, B. M. 
18. Sypna obscurata, n. 8. 
‘ Nearly allied to the preceding species, but altogether 
considerably darker, the ground colour of the primaries 
being of a ferruginous-red tint, clouded with shining 
erey and mottled with black; the subbasal band is of a 
shining indigo-blue rather than slate-colour, and is barely 
distinguishable from the grey cloudings ; the broad belt 
is dull greyish white, streaked with metallic-green, and 
mottled here and there with black in the male; in the 
female it is scarcely paler than the rest of the ground 
colour, but in both sexes its inner edge is considerably 
straighter than in S. lucilla ; the reniform spot is repre- 
sented by three white dots ina slightly curved series ; the 
secondaries are cupreous-brown, with pale costal border 
and the commencement of a pale central band; the latter 
is, however, almost lost as it reaches the radial vein ; the 
other markings are altogether darker, the apex is spotted 
TRANS. ENT. Soc. 1881.—paRT Il. (JULY.) 25 
