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SYPNA. By W. Warren. 



11. Genus: Sypim Guen. 



Tongue developed; frons smooth, flat; palpi erect, upturned in front of face, the second segment rough 

 haired, the third nearly as long as second, slender and smooth; antennae of cf long, thick, strongly crenulate 

 beneath, with fascicles of cilia; of ? narrow, with bristles; in both sexes constricted near base; abdomen 

 short, ending conically in ?, squarely in cf; the dorsum crested; legs strong and long, the tibiae without 

 spines; wings ample, the termen crenulate. Type: S. omicronigera Guen. 



An oriental genus occurring in India and the Malay Islands; also in Central Asia, China, and Japan. 



monnoides. S. mormoides Btlr. (66 f). Larger and darker than the succeeding species, omicronigera Guen. dark 



fuscous with a purplish tinge; the waved lines paler; the bands deep fuscous, less distinctly edged with black; 

 the subbasal obscure towards inner margin; the inner line narrower; orbicular stigma smaller, with a pale 

 centre; the reniform of the ground colour, with somewhat paler edging; the subterminal spots white-dotted; 

 hindwing bronzy brown towards base, fuscous terminally; the outer lines blackish, becoming faint towards 

 costa; subterminal dots white. A Sikkim species recorded by Leech from W. China. 



omicroni- S. omicronigera Guen. (66 f). Forewing dark grey brown, crossed by three darker bands edged externally 



gera. w j tn bi ac j^- j ne j nne r with some black also on its inner edge at inner margin; orbicular stigma round, black 

 with a pale centre; reniform large, obscurely defined, often marked externally with ochreous; the line edging 

 the subterminal band biconcave; a subterminal row of dark pale-edged lunules, that on submedian fold double 

 and edged with pale blue; hindwing paler, more ochreous brown; the bands distinct only on inner margin; 

 purpurata. there are several aberrant forms; in ab. purpurata ab. nov. (66 f) the forewing is uniformly purplish fuscous, 

 crossed by wavy leaden blue lines; the bands are feebly marked, and the reniform stigma has an orange 

 albovittuta. yellow diffuse spot in middle; in ab. albovittata Moore (66 g) the inner edge of the subbasal band, the space 

 between it and the inner band, the outer edge of the latter and of the outer band, and the edging of the 

 subterminal spots are all pale blue; the centres of the two stigmata and the outline of the reniform are also 

 sublucida. bluish white; in ab. sublucida ab. nov. (66 f) the interspaces between the dark bands are paler, more ochreous 

 brown; the centre of the orbicular, the outer edge of reniform, and a streak beyond in outer line, as well as 

 the subterminal spots are strongly bluish white; the inner arm of the outer line above and beyond the reni- 

 form is marked by a black dash. A North Indian insect; also recorded by Leech from W. China. 



dubitaria. S. dubitaria Walk. (66 f ). Resembles omicronigera, but the second band is prominently black, narrower, 



and more curved; the outer line is marked by a black tooth-shaped streak at costa; the orbicular stigma in 

 lost in the black band. Occurs in Bhutan and Assam, N. India; probably not in W. China; Leech's specimens 

 belonging to the true omicronigera Guen. 



picta. S. picta Btlr. (66 g). Forewing pale or dark wood brown, dusted with darker; the transverse bands 



dark fuscous brown, often purplish-tinged; inner and outer lines wavy, somewhat inwardly oblique, bluish 

 white, double; the outer arm of outer line bent outwards and blackish round the reniform, which is long, 

 constricted at middle, its centre bright ochreous edged with brown and outlined with bluish white; space 

 between subbasal and inner lines and that before subterminal line dark fuscous brown; this latter line is black, 

 irregularly dentate, indented beyond cell, and followed in its upper half by a paler brown area; the median 

 area is filled with bluish white scales, the costal end broadly and the inner marginal end narrowly remaining 

 dark brown; orbicular stigma a small snow white spot; a row of black spots edged with bluish white before 

 the termen; hindwing dark brown, with blackish outer line and broad subterminal shade followed by a narrow 

 achatina. one; — in ab. achatina Btlr. (66g, 67 a) the whole of the median area is fuscous brown, the double inner and 

 outer lines and the veins between them, — sometimes the edges of the reniform, — alone remaining slenderly 

 fumosa. blue; — in fumosa Btlr. (67a) all the bluish white scaling is absent, except the costal strigae of outer line, 

 fuUginosa. which together form the U-shaped marking mentioned by Butler; the ab. fuliginosa Btlr. (67a) differs only 

 in the forewing being suffused throughout with dark purplish brown; in both the reniform is very indistinct 

 but the yellow of the centre is sometimes visible. Widely distributed, occurring in Amurland, Corea, W. China, 

 and Japan. A form analogous to the ab. achatina, but darker in ground colour, occurs in the Khasia Hills, Assam. 



punctosa. S. punctosa Walk. (67b). Forewing dark brown with a purplish tinge; inner and outer lines black, 



waved, the latter excurved round cell; subterminal line waved and sinuous; a terminal row of pale dots; 

 orbicular stigma a pale dark-ringed speck; reniform ochrous or grey white; hindwing with indistinct sinuous 

 median and straight subterminal line; fringe at apex ochreous: underside with the dark median band on a 



umbrosu. pale space; in the form umbrosa Btlr. (= ? submarginata Walk.) (67b) rather larger than typical punctosa, 

 the underside is unicolorous ochreous grey without distinct pale area or dark median band. This species 

 which is common in India, is recorded by Leech from Central and Western China, and from Kiushiu. 



