Kastern and Australian I Irtarocern. A()\) 



apex, the first one running nearly halfway down the wing; 

 the anteiuedial line is not sinuous and is angled outwards to 

 a point a little above the middle; the postniedial line runs 

 straight up from tho middle of the hinder margin to the 

 lower end of the cell, then bends oul wards, thiows out two 

 sharp teeth, and runs up nearly straight to the costu alongside 

 the first white smear; the abdomen and hind wings are pale 

 ochreous brown, darkest towards the outer margin ; cilia of 

 both wings brown. On the underside both wings are crossed 

 by a fine outwardly curved discal line. 



Expanse of wings Ij^ inch. 



Fadang, W. Sumatra; one example. 



There is an example from Singapore in the B. M. 

 unnamed, Quadiitid Drawer no. 17G. 



Family Quadrifidae. 

 Subfamily Catocalin^. 



Sypna gluta, nov. 



(J ? . Antennae brown above, ochreous beneath ; palpi 

 brown, inner sides ochreous ; head, body, and wings dark 

 olive-brown: fore wings with duplicate, slightly sinuous, 

 but nearly erect antemedial, ochreous-grey, transverse lines, 

 similar medial lines rather close together, a little more 

 separated on the costa than on the hinder margin, with a 

 rather prominent ochreous-white spot between them in the 

 cell, and a black patch filling up the costal space; a discal, 

 recurved, crenulated, blackish line, almost submarginal, 

 submarginal black and white dots in the interspaces : hind 

 wings without markings ; marginal line of both wings 

 ochreous and crenulated ; cilia of fore wings and the lower 

 half of hind wings brown, of upper half of hind wino-s 

 ochreous. On the underside the wings are entirely brown ; 

 the fore wings with a black transverse band a little beyond 

 the middle, edged a little on the inner and broadly on the 

 outer side with ochreous white, immediately followed by a 

 broad blackish band ; hind wings somewhat similarly marked, 

 but the first black band is medial and narrow and bent out- 

 wards in the middle, and is edged outwardly only with dull 

 ochreous grey, and the outer margins of both wings are 

 broadly pale and suffused with ochreous. 



Expanse of wings 2-^ inches. 



Padang, Sumatra ; one example. 



