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208 Mr. A. G. Butler on 
with buff, the body is much darker ; the under surface 
much more densely mottled, and distinctly banded with 
black; expanse of wings—male, 2 inches; female, 
2 inches 3 lines. 
Shillong and Darjiling (Lidderdale).—Type, B. M. 
19. Sypna pulchra, n. 8. 
Primaries alternately banded with ochreous and 
blackish, the whole traversed by numerous undulated 
parallel black lines; all the blackish bands and black 
lines brilliantly shot with green towards the base, and 
with purple beyond; external border pale golden buff 
towards apex, and external angle dark brown just below 
the centre ; a submarginal series of white-pupilled black 
dots ; fringe varied with blackish ; secondaries with basal 
half lilacine grey ; costa cupreous-white; external area 
blackish, shot with purple, edged internally, and streaked 
at anal angle and on apical fringe with golden ochreous ; 
submarginal dots as in primaries; body pale; under 
surface greyish, with whitish post-median band enclosing 
a dusky stripe, and followed by a purplish black tapering 
belt ; external border buff; white-dotted black sub- 
marginal spots; body buff; legs varied with grey ; 
expanse of wings, 1 inch 10 lines. 
Darjiling (Lidderdale).—Type, B. M. 
20. Sypna curvilinea. 
Sypna curvilinea, Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1867, p. 69, 
pl. vi. fig. 4. 
Darjiling (Lidderdale, &c.)—B. M. 
21. Sypna picta. 
Sypna picta, Butler, Cist. Ent. ii. p. 244, n. 1 (1877) ; 
Ill. Typ. Lep. Het. i. p. 40, pl. xxxiii. fig. 2 
(1878). 
Hakodate (Whitely) ; Yokohama (Jonas); Tokei (en- 
ton); Nikko (Maries).—Type, B. M. 
This is the commonest but most beautiful of the 
Japanese species. 
