POLYPTTCHUS. CTPA. 71 



Hob. N.W. and E. Himalayas ; Assam ; Canara ; Ceylon ; 

 Andamans; Japan; China; Siam ; Java. 



92. Polyptychus spectabilis, Bull. P. Z. S. 1875, p. 256 ; Trans. Zool. 

 Soc. ix, pi. 93, fig. 1 j C. $ S. no. 147. 



c? . Differs from dyras in the fore wing being variegated with 

 different shades of brown and purplish grey ; the lines are similar 

 except that there is a medial line present enclosing between it 

 and the first postmedial line a bright coloured patch very variable 

 in extent. Underside with the area before the apex of the fore 

 wing suffused with pink and grey ; the apex and outer angle 

 fulvous yellow instead of chocolate ; hind wing suffused with pink 

 and grey, the anal angle yellow. 



.' Sikhim. Exp. 94-120 millim. 



Genus CYPA. 

 Cypa, Wlk. Cat. xxxi, p. 41 (1864). 



Type, C. ferruginea, Wlk. 

 Range. Sikhim ; Tavoy ; Ceylon. 



The 'palpi flattened and thin; hind wing with the subcostals 

 on a long stalk. 



93. Cypa decorata, Moore, P. Z. S. 1872, p. 568 ; C. $ S. no. 146. 



$ . Dark olive-brown. Fore wing with the outer margin highly 

 excised between veins 4 and 7, and much angulated towards outer 

 angle ; suffused with pale pink ; a large irregular medial brown 

 patch bordered with pink on the costa and partly including a pale 

 reniform spot, beneath which is a dark brown " in verted- comma " 

 shaped mark ; two curved postmedial pink lines, the inner one 

 waved near the inner margin ; some diffused brown streaks near 

 outer angle ; a triangular brown-edged patch on the costa before 

 the apex, with a short white streak below it. Hind wing with a 

 broad black and narrow pink streak near anal angle. 

 Hab. Sikhim. Exp. 72 millim. 



94. Cypa decolor, Wlk. Cat. viii, p. 255 ; C. fy S. no. 131. 



Cypa incongrueiis, Butl. III. Het. v, p. 12, pi. 80, 



^ figs. 8, 9; C. 8f S. no. 77. 



Fore wing highly angled and crenulate. 

 Dark red-brown ; the fore wing suffused 

 with darker patches, especially at the middle; 

 a dark speck at end of cell, and two indis- 

 tinct submarginal waved lines. Hind wing 

 with the cilia white towards anal angle, 

 which is less produced in the female than 

 p. . in the male. 



Cypa decolor, j. j. Hab - Sikhim; Tavoy. Exp. 62 millim. 



