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primaries : body pale. Under surface greyish, with whitish postrnedian band enclosing a 

 dusky stripe, and followed by a purplish-black tapering belt; external border buff; a series 

 of white-dotted black subiuarginal spots : body buff ; legs varied with grey. Expanse of 

 wings 47 millim. 



Darjiling {Lidderdale) . 



Sypna apicalis. (Plate CXI. fig. G.) 

 Sypna apicalis, Butler, Trans. Ent. Soc. p. 206. n. 15 (1881). 



Allied to S. fumosa aud S. catocaloides. From the former it principally differs on the 

 upper surface in its more pointed primaries and subangulated secondaries, the latter with a 

 large marginal lunate creamy ochreous apical patch ; on the underside, however, it is entirely 

 different, and more nearly resembles S. catocaloides, being of a creamy-yellowish colour, the 

 wings crossed by three black bands, slightly curved and converging towards the inner margin 

 (which they do not, however, reach), angulated on the primaries and undulated on the 

 secondaries, where the second and third are almost united from the middle upwards by a 

 large subapical blackish blotch ; an indistinct dusky line immediately beyond the third band, 

 and a submarginal series of black dots : secondaries with two parallel black dashes at the end 

 of the cell. Expanse of wings 53 millim. 



Darjiling (Lidderdale) . 



Sypna tenebrosa. (Plate CXI. fig. 7.) 

 Sypna tenebrosa, Butler, Trans. Ent. Soc. p. 20'3. n. 4 (1SS1). 



Allied to -S'. martina of Eelder, but with the broad dark belt of the primaries interrupted 

 by the veins; the discal band bounding the external area darker; the pale central belt of the 

 secondaries obsolete; the external area paler in the male, darker in the female; the yellowish 

 spots on the fringe of the male only visible towards the apex, those of the female broadly 

 interrupted opposite to the median interspaces; the grey intersecting line also does not cross 

 the yellow spots as in A', martina. The under surface seems to be entirely different : it is 

 whity brown in the male, creamy whitish in the female, crossed beyond the middle of the 

 primaries by an oblique belt, and at the middle of the secondaries by an arched belt of four 

 alternately dark-brown and sordid white bands; the innermost band, however, is indistinct, 

 particularly on the secondaries of the male, where it is also interrupted by a whitish disco- 

 cellular lunule ; a broad curved discal belt, smoky brown in tin- male, blackish in the female, 

 its outer edge very irregular and forming two unequal projections to the outer margin on 

 the secondaries; a submarginal series of lunate black dots; fringe with dusky tips: body 

 below pale buff. Expanse of wings, J 1 57 millim., ? 5'J millim. 



Darjiling (Lidderdale) . 



