448 



NOCTTJIDJE. 



and a Travancore form are more suffused with purple ; in the 

 former the reniform is pure white, with white specks above and 



Tig. 253. — Sypna punctosa $ . \. 



below it : submarginata = umbrosa is a fuscous-brown form, with 

 no pale band on uuderside. 



Hob. N.W. Himalayas; Sikhim ; Shillong; Kilgiris ; Pirmad, 

 Travancore. Exp. 54 millim. 



2378. Sypna marginalis, n. sp. 



2 . Differs from the form submarginata of punctosa in the fore 

 wing having a white spot on the antemedial line at inner margin ; 

 the reniform whitish ; the submarginal sinuous line ochreous and 

 not waved ; hind wing with an evenly curved ochreous submarginal 

 line ; the marginal specks on both wings white. Underside with 

 a marginal ochreous band, irrorated with fuscous, on both wings. 



Hob. Sikhim (Knyvett). Exp. 46 millim. Type in coll. 

 Knyvett. 



2379. Sypna caliginosa, Wlk. Cat. xxxiii, p. 940; C. $ S. no. 2503. 



Differs from the form submarginata of punctosa in being of a 

 chestnut-red tinge ; the sinuous submarginal line not waved ; 

 the series of specks white and just before the margin. 



Hah. Sikhim. Exp. 50 millim. 



2380. Sypna cyanivitta, Moore, P. Z. S. 1867, p. 70; Waterh. Aid, 



ii, pi. 159, fig. 4 ; C.8f S. no. 2508. 

 Sypna brunnea, Moore, Lep. Atk. p. 167 ; C. 8? 8. no. 2502. 



Ochreous brown, irrorated with fuscous. Pore wing with short 

 straight subbasalpale and dark line; the antemedial line bent inwards 

 at costa ; the postmedial line irregularly excurved round cell ; the 

 reniform narrow and elongate, sometimes with bluish edges ; a 

 very irregularly sinuous and dentate indistinct submarginal black 

 line ; an indistinct series of dark specks just before the margin. 

 Hind wing with traces of medial and submarginal sinuous lines, 

 and series of dark specks before the margin. Underside of both 

 wings with indistinct cell-spot and medial line; a series of dark 

 specks before the margin. 



Hah. N.W. Himalayas ; Sikhim. Exp. 56 millim. 



