250 KOCTUiD^i;. 



a cliscoidal lunnle filled in with whitish, dark medial line waved to 

 vein 5 and oblique below vein 2, broad dark shade before the in- 

 distinct double postmedial line filled in with whitish, and series of 

 blackish points before termen. 



Hah. GrOLD Coast, Ashanti, Obuassi {Bergman), 1 c? ; S. 

 Nigeria, Ilesha {Humfrey), 1 6 ; Gaboo:?^, Ogove E., type f in 

 Coll. Holland. Exp. 52-54 millim. 



8055. Sypnoides mandarina. (Plate CCXXXI. fig. 8.) 



Si/pna mandarina, Leecb, Trans. Eut. Soc. 1900, p. 545. 



S ■ Head and base of tegulse red-brown ; thorax black-bi'own 

 with some blue-grey scales ; antennae and palpi dark brown ; pectus 

 and legs greyish brown, the tibise with blackish bands, the fore and 

 mid tarsi black ringed with whitish ; abdomen reddish brown with 

 slight dark irroration, the crests tipped with blackish, the anal tuft 

 dark brown. Fore wing pale red-brown, the medial area pencilled 

 with black scales except towards costa, the basal area black with a 

 leaden grey tinge ; a slight black subbasal line defined on outer side 

 by red- brown from costa to vein 1 ; the black area defined by the 

 double inwardly oblique medial line, the inner line black, the oiiter 

 faint and red-brown, with a slight blackish spot at costa ; reniform 

 faint, pale, an oblique brown bar above it from costa ; postmedial 

 line very indistinct, double, brown, excurved to vein 4, then oblique 

 and sinuous ; a conical blackish patch tinged with leaden grey from 

 costa before apex, its edges sinuous and defined by blackish, some 

 whitish points on it at costa ; a large terminal blackish patch 

 tinged with leaden grey from above vein 3 to tornus, its inner edge 

 sinuous and defined by black, the cilia beyond it blackish ; a series 

 of black points before termen. Hind wing grey-brown with slight 

 dark irroration ; two diffused sinuous brown subterminal lines, the 

 outer line black and waved from vein 4 to inner margin with a 

 blackish patch tinged with leaden grey beyond it with a small 

 white spot on it at submedian fold, the cilia beyond it mixed with 

 blackish; a series of black points before termen. Underside whitish 

 tinged and irrorated with brown ; fore wing with two diffused 

 rather oblique brown postmedial lines and a dark subterminal shade 

 broad towards costa ; hind wing with two small black discoidal 

 lunules, postmedial line slight, angled outwards at discal fold, then 

 oblique, a slight dark subterminal shade. 



Hab. W. China, Chou-pin-sa, 5 c? type, Kia-ting-fu, 1 J , 

 Ta-chien-lu, 1 6 . JExy. 48-58 millim. 



Seot. II. Antenna; of male with fasciculate cilia. 



8056. Sypnoides pannosa. 



iloore, Lep. Atk. p. 168, pi. t. 

 .451. 



Head and thorax black-brown tinged with leaden grey ; palpi 



Sypna pannosa, Moore, Lep. Atk. p. 168, pi. t. f. 12 (1882); Ilmpsn. 

 Moths Ind. ii. p. 451. 



