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Sypna lucilla. (Plate CXI. fig. 8.) 

 Sypna lucilla. Butler, Trans. Ent. Soc. p. 206. n. 17 (1881). 



Primaries above gravel-brown, crossed by blackish stria? and by a very broad and slightly 

 irregular cream-coloured belt, which is interrupted upon the costa by a triangular black- 

 speckled brown patch, and four or five dots in an oblique scries just below it ; a broad slaty- 

 grey subbasal band, bounded externally on the inner margin by a small bluish-white spot ; 

 discoidal spots pure white, small ; external area crossed by lilacine veins, a very irregular 

 black line, followed by a submarginal series of black lunules, spotted externally with pale 

 buff; fringe smoky brown : secondaries with the basal area to the central dusky line creamy 

 yellowish, with brassy and opaline reflections, but the interno-median area densely clothed 

 with pale-brown hair; a rather broad band just beyond the middle, its upper half creamy 

 yellowish, its lower half pinky white, traversed (from the abdominal margin) by an abbre- 

 viated grey line ; a broad tapering blackish discal band; external area testaceous, mottled 

 with brown; submarginal markings and fringe as in the primaries; veins shot with lilacine: 

 thorax whity brown; abdomen smoky brown, with whitish hind margins to the segments. 

 Under surface creamy whitish : primaries with the costal and external borders and the apical 

 area speckled with black; three blackish abbreviated stripes, the two first parallel and 

 oblique, the third transverse and irregular; fringe dusky; a submnrginal series of black 

 dots : secondaries speckled with black, crossed in the middle by two slender undulated and 

 obtusely angulated blackish lines ; disk crossed by a slightly sinuous diffused blackish baud ; 

 a submarginal series of black dots ; fringe greyish towards the anal angle. Expanse of wings 

 57 millim. 



Darjiling (Lidderdale). 



Sypna obscurata. (Plate CXI. fig. 9.) 

 Sypna obscurata, Butler, Trans. Ent. Soe. p. 207. n. 18 (1881). 



Nearly allied to the preceding species, but altogether considerably darker, the ground- 

 colour of the primaries being of a ferruginous red tint, clouded with shining grey and mottled 

 with black ; the subbasal band is of a shining indigo-blue rather than slate-colour, and is 

 barely distinguishable from the grey cloudings ; the broad belt is dull greyish white, streaked 

 with metallic green, and mottled here and there with black in the male ; in the female it 

 is scarcely paler than the rest of the ground-colour, but in both sexes its inner edge is 

 considerably straighter than in S. lucilla ■ the reniform spot is sometimes represented by 

 three white dots in a slightly curved series : the secondaries are cupreous brown, with pale 

 costal border and the commencement of a pale central band ; the latter is, however, almost 

 lost as it reaches the radial vein; the other markings are altogether darker, the apex is 

 spotted with buff; the body is much darker ; the under surface much more densely mottled 

 and distinctly banded with black. Expanse of wings, J 51 millim., ? 57 millim. 



Shillong and Darjiling (Lidderdale). 



