450 NOCTUID^E. 



speck in cell ; the reniform bluish white, with some specks round 

 it ; ill-defined reddish ochreous patches on apical part of outer 

 margin and near outer angle ; a marginal series of black and white 

 specks. Hind wing with pale outer edge to the medial line ; some 

 pale suffusion at apex, and a streak towards anal angle. Under- 

 side as in tenebrosa. 



Hob. Sikhim. Rrp. 50 millim. 



2385. Sypna catocaloides, Moore, P. Z. S. 1867, p. 71, pi. 7, fig. 3 j 



C. $ S. no. 2504. 



c? . Red-brown suffused with fuscous. Fore wing with very 

 indistinct pale waved subbasal, ante-, and postmedial lines, the 

 latter excurved round cell ; some green suffusion between the sub- 

 basal and antemedial Hues on inner area, and beyond the post- 

 medial line ; a greenish spot in cell and band on discocellulars ; 

 the reniform greenish ; a sinuous submarginal line, with greenish 

 streaks on apical area from it to the almost marginal series of 

 greenish specks. Hind wing black, with broad fulvous postmedial 

 band ; the apical part of outer area fulvous ; the area towards anal 

 angle streaked with rufous. Underside orange : fore wing with 

 medial and postmedial oblique black bands not reaching costa or 

 inner margin ; a curved submarginal diffused baud : hind wing 

 with black streak in cell, spot at end of it and band from lower 

 angle to inner margin ; a curved medial band and diffused sub- 

 marginal band ; both wings with almost marginal series of black 

 specks. 



Hab. Sikhim. Exp. 78 millim. 



B. Antennce of male bijiectinated with short stiff 1 branches. 



2386. Sypna replicata, Feld. Eds. Nov. pi. 117, fig. 25; C. $ S. 



no. 2525. 

 Sypna apicalis, Butt. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1881, p. 206, and III. Het. vi, 



pi. Ill, fiar. 6; C. $ S. no. 2500. 

 Sypna lucilla, Butl. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1881, p. 206, and III. Het. vi, 



pi. Ill, fig. 8; C. Sf S. no. 2513. 

 Sypna plana, Moore, Lep. Atk. p. 167, pi. 5, fig. 24: C. fy S. 



no. 2519. 

 Sypna obscurata, Butt. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1881, p. 207, and III 



Het. vi, pi. Ill, fig. 9 ; C. $ S. no. 2516. 

 Sypna floccosa, Moore, Lep. Atk. p. 167, pi. 5, fig. 23 ; C. fy S. 



no. 2510. 

 Sypna renisigna, Moore, P. Z. 8. 1883, p. 25 ; Waterh. Aid, ii, 



pi. 160, fig. 4; C.$S. no. 2524. 



Dark red-brown, suffused with fuscous. Fore wing with ante- 

 medial black band with waved edges ; indistinct sinuous medial, 

 postmedial, and submarginal lines ; the area between the medial 

 and postmedial lines suffused with yellowish-white in lucilla, with 

 grey or pale rufous in obscurata, with a similarly coloured patch 

 beyond the line below costa. Hind wing with indistinct medial 

 line on pale band in lucilla ; both wings with marginal series of 



