26 EEEBID^. — OMMATOPHOEIDJE. 



EREBID^. 



SYPNA, Guen. 

 Sypna achatina. (Plate XLVII. fig. 7.) 

 Sypna achatiua, Butler, Cist. Ent. ii. p. 245. n. 2 (1877). 



cf ? . Allied to S. picta, but -(vith the pale areas of the primaries and the whole of the 

 secondaries paler, the dark lines well marked : primaries crossed in the centre by an irregular 

 H-like character, formed of two white-edged, blue-speckled bands, united by a slender blue 

 line just below the middle ; the anterior baud interrupted by the reniform spot, which is 

 yellowish ; a white dot in the cell : secondaries with two subcentral lines, the outer one 

 angulated and distinct ; outer border separated into alternately dusky and pale streaks ; other- 

 wise much like S. picta. Expanse of wings, (J 2 inches, $ 2 inches 5-7 lines. 



Hahoiate {Whitely) ; Yokohama {Jonas). 



Sypna fuliginosa. (Plate XLVII. fig. 8.) 

 Sypna fuliginosa, Butler, Cist. Ent. ii. p. 245. n. 4 (1S77). 



Fuliginous brown, traversed by darker and paler lines ; primaries (especially in the male) 

 shot with violet ; a broad, partly black-edged, tolerably regular brown belt, slightly paler than 

 the ground-colour and crossing the wing just beyond the cell ; a white dot in the cell ; reni- 

 form spot streaked with testaceous internally, blackish-edged externally ; external area slightly 

 paler than the ground-colour, black- edged internally; border as in the preceding species: 

 secondaries (excepting the apical fringe) almost as in S. picta ; under sui'face similar. 

 Expanse of wings, ^J 2 inches, ? 2 inches 5 lines. 



cJ, Yokohama {Fryer) ; ? , Hakodate {Whitely). 



OMMATOPHORID^. 



NYCTIPAO, Hiibn. 



Nyctipao laetitia. (Plate XLVII. fig. 9.) 



Nyctipao laetitia, Butler, Ann. Sf Mag. Nat. Hist. ser. 5, vol. i. p. 291 (1878). 



Near to N. crepuscularis, but altogether duller; the white discal stripe not bordered 

 with lilac ; the yellowish outer border of the arched white stripe and the difi'used obhque bars 

 on the external area replaced by dull pale brown ; all the dark areas fuliginous ; the ocellus 

 smaller, its anterior margin more regularly convex ; the white lunules on the disk of all the 

 wings more slender and enclosing large blackish spots. Lender surface darker and duller, the 

 white spots of the discal series rather larger, and the other spots smaller ; the inner arched 



