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side being black and on hind wing more curved, situated on 

 a prominent white band inwardly denned by fuscous ; the outer 

 area fuscous black, with white patches at outer angle of fore wing 

 and towards apex and anal angle of hind wing. 



Some specimens have the cilia at apex of hind wing ochreous. 



Hab. Assam ; Java. Exp. 58 millim. 



2375. Sypna COnstellata, Moore, P. Z. S. 1883, p. 24 ; Waterli. Aid, 



ii, pi. 159, fig. 2 ; C.SrS. no. 2506. 



Differs from omicronigera in being yellow-brown without the 

 purplish tinge ; the base of antennae white ; thorax with white 

 specks. Fore wings uniform brown, slightly speckled with white, 

 and with series of prominent white spots on the subbasal, ante- 

 medial, and postmedial lines, the costa and outer margin ; a white 

 spot in cell; the reniform white, with white spots round it; a 

 sinuous submarginal dark line. Hind wing with white spots on 

 inner and outer margin near anal angle ; the cilia ochreous near 

 apex. Underside ochreous, irrorated with black ; the medial 

 baud more prominent and irregular ; the postmedial area black, 

 the outer ochreous except at centre of fore wing. 



Hab. N.W. Himalayas. Exp. 72 millim. 



2376. Sypna tenebrosa, But!, Trans. Ent. Soc. 1881, p. 203, & III. 



Het. vi, pi. Ill, fig. 7; C.Sf S, no. 2528. 



Differs from the form dubitaria in being paler brown without 

 the purplish tinge ; the underside as in coslisparsa, but without the 

 purplish tinge on the black areas ; cilia at apex of hind wing some- 

 times ochreous. 



Hab. Sikhim. Exp. 60 millim. 



2377. Sypna punctosa, Wlk. Cat. xxxiii, p. 939; C. $ S. no. 2522. 

 Tavia subniarginata, Wlk. Cat. xxxiii, p. 911 ; C. fy S. no. 



2527. 

 Tavia biocularis, Moore, P. Z. S. 1867, p. 71; C. fy S. no. 



2501. 

 Sypna urnbrosa, Butl. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1881, p. 204 ; III. Het. 



vi, pi. Ill, fig. 3 ; C. # 8. no. 2529. _ 

 Sypna ockreicilia, Hmpsn. III. Het. viii, p. 89, pi. 147, fig. 1. 



Fuscous brown, with a purplish tinge. Fore wing with waved 

 black subbasal, ante-, and postmedial lines, the last excurved 

 round cell ; a pale or dark speck in cell ; the reniform dark and 

 indistinct, or whitish in typical punctosa; a sinuous submarginal 

 waved line ; some pale specks on costa towards apex and a 

 marginal series. Hind wing with indistinct sinuous medial and 

 straight submarginal lines. Punctosa, from the N.W. Himalayas, 

 is a greyish form, the cilia ochreous at apex of hind wing, 

 underside with the medial line on a pale band. Ochreicilia, from the 

 Nilgiris, is similar, but fuscous brown : biocularis, from Sikhim, 



