450 noctuidjE. 



speck in cell : the reniform bluish white, with some specks round 

 it ; ill-defined reddish ochreous patches on apical part of outer 

 margin and near outer angle ; a marginal series of black and white 

 specks. Hind wing with pale outer edge to the medial line ; some 

 pale suffusion at apex, and a streak towards anal angle. 13 nder- 

 side as in tenebrosa. 



Hob. Sikhim. Exp. 50 millim. 



2385. Sypna catocaloi&es, Moore, P. Z. S. 1867, p. 71, pi. 7, fig. 3 ; 

 C. Sf S. no. 2504. 



S . Eed-brown suffused with fuscous. Fore wing with very 

 indistinct pale waved subbasal, ante-, and postmedial lines, the 

 latter excurved round cell ; some green suffusion between the sub- . 

 basal and antemedial lines on inner area, and beyond the post- 

 medial line ; a greenish spot in cell and band on discocellulars ; 

 the reniform greenish ; a sinuous submarginal line, with greenish 

 streaks on apical area from it to the almost marginal series of 

 greenish specks. Hind wing black, with broad fulvous postmedial 

 band ; the apical part of outer area fulvous ; the area towards anal 

 angle streaked with rufous. Underside orange : fore wing with 

 medial and postmedial oblique black bands not reaching costa or 

 inner margin ; a curved submarginal diffused band : hind wing 

 with black streak in cell, spot at end of it and band from lower 

 angle to inner margin ; a curved medial band and diffused sub- 

 marginal band; both wings with almost marginal series of black 

 specks. 



Hob. Sikhim. Exp. 78 millim. 



B. Antennoe of male bipectinated ivith short stiff branches. 



238g/Sypna replicata, Feld. Bets. Nov. pi. 117, fig. 25; C. Sf S. 

 J do. 2525. 

 Sypna apicalis, Butl. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1881, p. 206, and III. Het. vi, 



pi. Ill, fig. 6; C. Sf S. no. 2500. 

 Sypna lucilla, Butl. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1881, p. 206, and III. Het. vi, 



pi. Ill, fig. 8; C. # £. no. 2513. 

 Sypna plana, Moore, Lep. Atk. p. 167, pi. 5, fig. 24; C. $ S. 



Sypna obscurata, Butl. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1881, p. 207, and III. 

 > Het. vi, pi. Ill, fig. 9 ; C. $ 8. no. 2516. 

 /2.>8$%P na floccosa, Moore, Lep. Atk. p. 167, pi. 5, fig. 23; C. # S. 

 ' no. 2510. _ 



Sypna renisigna, Moore, P. Z. S. 1883, p. 25 ; Waterh. Aid, ii, 

 pi. 160, fig. 4; C. 8f S. no. 2524. 



Dark red-brown, suffused with fuscous. Tore wing with ante- 

 medial black band with waved edges ; indistinct sinuous medial, 

 postmedial, and submarginal lines ; the area between the medial 

 and postmedial lines suffused with yellowish-white in lucilla, with 

 grey or pale rufous in obscurata, with a similarly coloured patch 

 beyond the line below costa. Hind wing with indistinct medial 

 line on pale band in lucilla ; both wings with marginal series of 





