44 EEEBID^E. 



Subsequent to the publication of the description of this species (in the ' Proceedings of 

 the Zoological Society' for 1883, p. 25) Mr. Moore described a species of Sypna under the 

 name of S. renisigna ; a comparison of the two types shows that the latter is a male inter- 

 mediate between the males in the Museum Collection, and corresponding perfectly with the 

 type specimen of the female of S. obscurata. As it is most improbable that three species are 

 represented in the Museum series from Darjiling and Assam, <S. renisigna will become a 

 synonym of S. obscurata. 



Sypna albilinea. (Plate CXII. fig. 1.) 

 Sypna albilinea, Walker, Cat. L,/>. //■>. xiv. p. 1261. n. 3 (1857). 



Fuliginous brown with a slight golden reflection : primaries with the basal half olive- 

 brown, banded and traversed near the base and in the middle by slender sinuous lilac lines ; 

 basal area also sprinkled with lilac scales ; orbicular spot obsolete; rcniform spot ill-defined, 

 oblique, elongated, testaceous, interrupting the outer lilac lines; a dark brown costal spot 

 edged with lilac just beyond the middle; external third suffused with lilac, especially upon 

 the veins, sparsely irrorated with black, traversed by an ill-defined interrupted crenulated 

 black line; an oblique internally bisinuated subapieal black patch ; a marginal series of small 

 squamose marginal spots : secondaries with whitish basi-costal area and two pale bands, one 

 just beyond the middle, the other abbreviated, submarginal ; anal area crossed by undulating 

 lines of lilac dark fuliginous and blackish, and sprinkled along the veins with lilac scales; 

 three pale yellowish apical spots extending into the fringe : body brown; abdomen greyish, 

 with the posterior margins of the segments lilacine. Wings below with pale greyish-brown 

 basal area which is bounded externally by a fuliginous brown band, next to which is an arched 

 white belt enclosing a blackish band ; disk dark fuliginous brown : primaries with' whitish 

 external border enclosing a submarginal series of black lunulcs ; fringe tipped with blackish : 

 secondaries w itb a large whitish apical patch, divided by two or three fuliginous brown streaks, 

 which extend into the fringe; a second patch, undivided, at anal angle: body below pale 

 greyish brown. Expanse of wings 55 millim. 



Silhet. 



The name chosen for this species is singularly inappropriate, as there is not a white line 

 on any part of it. 



Sypna moorei. (Plate CXII. fig. 2.) 

 Sypna moorei, Butler, Trans. Ent. Soc. p. 209. n. 22 (18S1). 



Near to S. rectilinea and S. achatina ; larger than the former and smaller than the 

 latter; much darker than cither; the lilacine white lines on the primaries more slender than 

 in S. achatina, indistinct; the pale areas barely indicated: primaries with a distinct zigzag 

 black discal line; a white orbicular point in the cell ; submarginal spots black and white. 

 Under surface as in S. achatina. Expanse of wings 5G millim. 



Shillong, Assam. 



