232 Some apparently new Species and Forms of Noctuidae 



Ab. (5) rhodozona ab. nov., $ , ? , has the whole fore wing from 

 anteniedial to subterminal lines suffused with pinkish-white. 



Numerous other lesser or intermediate aberrations also occur. 



Manusela, 6,000 feet, October to December, 1919, sixty $ $ , a 

 hundred and twenty-four ? ? . 



Nearest to S. achaeoides Wlkr., but seems quite a good species. 



47. Sypna admiratio sp. nov. 

 $ , 65 mm. 



Head, thorax and palpus predominantly black-brown, palpus 

 ochreous-brown in front, thorax shot with purple and sparsely 

 irrorated with white ; abdomen above brownish-grey with the crests 

 dark-brown ; abdomen beneath and pectus dark-brown ; legs pre- 

 dominantly dark-brown, with some ochreous shading beneath and on 

 the joints. 



Fore wing above deep purplish-brown, irrorated with white ; lines 

 blackish, indistinct, somewhat as in panctosa Wlkr., from the N.W. 

 Himalayas, but the postmedial (the least indistinct) rather more strongly 

 bent outward behind the costa and retracted to the middle of wing on 

 M 2 (instead of to scarcely more than three-fifths from base) and ending 

 near middle of hindmargin (instead of nearly two-thirds along it) ; white 

 terminal spots slightly larger and nearer termen than in punctosa ; 

 reniform a nearly round white spot surrounded by four or five white 

 dots (much as in some forms of punctosa) . 



Hind wing dark brownish-grey, a little paler towards base, with a 

 slight, pale subterminal line from behind M 1 to tornus ; fringe ochreous- 

 brown with a thick blackish line at middle and fine black lines at base 

 and tips. 



Underside of both wings brown irrorated with blackish, with pale 

 discal lunule and diffused dark postmedial line ; fore wing with a pale 

 shade distally to postmedial line and a diffused dark subterminal shade 

 beyond it ; both wings less contrasted and with the postmedial line 

 much more curved than in punctosa. 



Manusela, 6,000 feet, October to December, 1919, one $ . 



Nearest punctosa Wlkr. and biocularis Moore (from Sikkim) but 

 appears to me quite distinct from both. One large $ from Assam 

 (erroneously, as it appears to me) placed as punctosa in coll. Brit. Mus., 

 might well be the Indian race of this species. 



