SYPIS'OIDES. 



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8054. Sypnoides equatorialis. 



Sij])na eqiicdorialis, Holl. Psyche, Tii. p. 69 (1894). 



S ■ Head and thorax red-brown mixed with some whitish ; tarsi 

 blackish ringed with white ; abdomen grey-brown, the crests dark 

 brown, the ventral surface whitish. Fore wing reddish brown 

 slightly irrorated with black ; a reddish ochreous subbasal bar from 

 costa to median nervure and white bar in submedian interspace ; 

 medial area suffused with bluish white with a conical black-brown 

 patch on it from costa to middle of cell and an oblique band from 

 median nervure to inner mai^gin towards which it expands ; traces 

 of a curved waved antemedial brown line on the white area ; 



Fig. 58. — Sypnoides equatorialis, (j". \. 



orbicular a minute incomplete black annulus ; renif orm with reddish 

 brown centre and bluish white annulus, oblique, its outer edge 

 irregular ; postmedial line indistinctly double, obliquely down- 

 curved below costa, then slightly waved, som_ewfhat incm-ved at 

 discal fold, incurved below vein 4, and obsolete on the white area, 

 a dark brown spot beyond it on costa followed by some pale and 

 dark striae ; subterminal line black-brown defined on inner side by 

 reddish ochreous, waved, oblique towards costa and excurved at 

 middle ; a series of slight black lunules before termen, the lunule in 

 submedian interspace defined on outer side by white scales ; a fine 

 waved dark terminal line. Hind wing reddish brown ; traces of a 

 double medial line filled in with whitish on inner area ; an indistinct 

 diffused postmedial line with some dark points on its outer side on 

 inner area ; an indistinct dark subterminal line, more distinct and 

 somewhat dentate on inner half ; a series of dark points and lunules 

 before termen ; a fine waved dark terminal line and pale line at 

 base of cilia ; the underside whitish thickly irrorated with brown, 



