250 XOCTUID.E. 



a discoidal lumile filled in with whitish, dark luediiil line waved to 

 vein 5 and obliqne below vein 2, broad dark shade before the in- 

 distinct double postmedial line tilled in with whitish, and series of 

 blackish ])oints l)efore termon. 



][(il). (jroi.D Coast, Ashanti, Obuassi {Bergman), 16; S. 

 Nigeria, Ilesha {Hiimfrey), 1 S; Gaboon, Ogove R., type f i" 

 Coll. Holland. Exp. 52-54; ruillim. 



8055. Sypnoides mandarina. (Plate CCXXXI. fig. 8.) 

 Sypna mandarina, Leecb, Trans. Eut. Soc. 1900, p. 545. 



<S . Head and base of tegulse red-brown ; thorax black-brown 



with some blue-grey scales ; antennae and palpi dark brown ; pectus 



and legs greyish brown, the tibiae with blackish bands, the fore and 



mid tarsi black ringed with whitish ; abdomen reddish brown with 



slight dark iiToration, the crests tipped with blackish, the anal tuft 



dark brown. Fore wing pale red-brown, the medial area pencilled 



with black scales except towards costa, the basal area black with a 



leaden grey tinge ; a slight black subbasal line defined on outer side 



by red-brown from costa to vein 1 ; the black area defined by the 



double inwardly oldique medial line, the inner line black, the outer 



faint and red-brown, with a slight blackish spot at costa ; reniform 



faint, pale, an oblique brown bar above it from eosbi ; postmedial 



line yerj indistinct, double, brown, excurved to vein 4, then oblique 



and sinuous ; a conical blackish patch tinged with leaden grey from 



costa before apex, its edges sinuous and defined by blackish, some 



whitish points on it at costa ; a large terminal blackish patch 



tinged with leaden grey from above vein 3 to tornus, its inner edge 



sinuous and defined by black, the cilia beyond it blackish ; a series 



of black points before' termen. Hind wing grey-brown with slight 



dark irroration ; two diif used sinuous brown subterminal lines, the 



outer line black and waved from vein 4; to inner margin with a 



blackish patch tinged with leaden grey beyond it with a small 



white spot on it at submedian fold, the cilia beyond it mixed with 



blackish; a series of black points before termen. rnderside whitish 



tinged and iiTorated with brown ; fore wing with two diffu.sed 



rather oblique browm postmedial lines and a dark subterminal shade 



l)road towards costa ; hind wing with two small black discoidal 



lunules, postmedial line slight, angled outwards at discal fold, then 



oblique, a slight dark subterminal shade. 



Hah. W. China, Chou-pin-sa, 5 6 type, Kia-ting-fu, 1 6, 

 Ta-chien-lu, 1 6 ■ Exp. 48-58 millim. 



Shot. II. Antenna; of male with fasciculate cilia. 



8056. Sypnoides pannosa. 



Joore, Lep. Atk. p. 168, pi. v. 

 .451. 



Head and thorax black-brown tinged with leaden grey ; palpi 



Sypna pannosa, Moore, Lep. Atk. p. 168, pi. v. f. 12 (18S2) ; Ilnipsn. 

 Moths Ind. ii. p. 451. 



