LTGNIODES.— SPIEAMIA. 89 



Lygniodes reducens, var. E-antiqua. 



Female. With a prominent black ^ -shaped mark in the cell of fore wing, of which the 

 typical form has no trace ; the black bands and submarginal spots distinct and diffused. 



EREBIID.E. 



Sypna ochreicilia. (Plate CXLVII. fig. 1.) 



Expanse 1^^ inch. 



Male and female. Fore wing black-brown, with slight purplish tinge; the following 

 waved indistinct narrow black bands, subbasal, autemedial, submarginal, and a double medial 

 one, enclosing a small round grey or ochreous reuiform spot ; a series of small submarginal 

 lunules, white on black ground ; an ochreous antecilial line. Hind wing black-brown; cilia 

 ochreous, except between third median nervule and submedian nervure ; a submarginal 

 ochreous streak from anal angle. Underside paler : fore wing with a diffused double medial 

 pale ochreous band ; outer margin ochreous, with a submarginal series of black points ; three 

 ochreous strigae on costa towards apex : hind wing, inner and outer margins pale ochreous ; 

 a lunule at end of cell, and narrow waved black medial band outwardly bordered with ochreous. 

 Antennae of male with brown pectinations ; palpi ochreous in front ; legs ringed with 

 ochreous. Head, thorax, and abdomen black-brown. 



Near S. submarginalis, which is without the ochreous cilia of hind wing and streak from 

 anal angle. 



HYPOPYEID^. 



Spiramia indenta. (Plate CXLVII. figs. 20, 21.) 



Expanse 2^ inches. 



Male and female. Intermediate between /S. retorta and S. triloba, the markings less 

 distinct than in the former, more distinct than in the latter ; the comet-shaped mark with 

 chocolate centre (in the female), its outer margin with two indentations, not obsolescent as 

 in S. triloba, and well separated from the curved medial band. 



Also in Coll. B. M. from Sylhet, Java, and Ceylon. 



