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speckled : hind wing with less distinct pale fasciae, and the margin 

 with a bine lunular line. Underside with less-defined fasciae. 



Expanse 2g inches. 



Hab. Darjiliug. In coll. British Museum. 



Sypna prunosa, n. sp. 



Male. Allied to S. moorei. Dark purplish brown ; fore wing 

 with similar transverse band, except that its outer border is irre- 

 gular and encompasses the entire reniform mark : hind wing with 

 two pale zigzag fasciae, the lower being nearer the margin ; the 

 marginal lunules distinct and bordered with bluish-grey. 



Expanse 2|- inches. 



Hab. Darjiling. In coll. F. Moore. 



Spyna fraterna, u. sp. 



Allied to jS. eurvilinea ; comparatively smaller. Fore wing with 

 the broad medial band of a uniform dark-brown colour throughout, 

 its inner-bordered duplex line indistinctly ochreous, and the outer 

 line bright ochreous ; the discal area broadl}^ and an apical patch 

 also bright ochreous ; a minute white orbicular dot, and a slender 

 indistinctly defined reniform mark : underside of a brighter and 

 paler ochreous tint, with a narrower and more recurved transverse 

 inner dusky fascia, and comparatively broader outer fascia. 



Expanse 2 inches. 



Hab. Darjiling. In coll. F. Moore and British Museum. 



Sypna renisigna, n. sp. 



Male. Dark purpHsh brown. Fore wing crossed by a broad sub- 

 basal and autemedial blackish band, bordered outwardly by a 

 slender duplex black line extending irregularly outward beyond the 

 cell and terminating on the costa above the end ; a submarginal 

 blackish zigzag narrow band, and a marginal row of slender ochreous- 

 bordered black lunules ; a distinct white minute orbicular dot and 

 large prominent reniform mark : hind wing with a blackish subbasal 

 and a discal suffused band, and a marginal row of slender pale- 

 bordered lunules. Underside pale brownish ochreous : fore wing 

 with three distinct medial transverse narrow black bands ; hind wing 

 with a narrow medial and a broad discal band. 



Expanse If inch. 



Hab. Khasia hills. In coll. F. Moore. 



Argiva strigipennis, n. sp. 



Allied to A. hieroghjphica ; smaller in size. Both sexes pale 

 ochreons-brown, much paler than the temale of A. hieroghjphica . 

 Upperside with more delicate short strigae, which are sparsely dis- 

 posed between the three transverse irregular darker brown fasciae ; 

 the fascia? in both sexes (especially in the male) showing more promi- 

 nently than in female ^i. hieroghjphica ; the oblique short subapical 

 band at upper outer end of the medial fascia, in both sexes, is 

 brownish-ochreous, and the zigzag outer margin of the medial fascia 



