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Sypna umbrosa. (Plate CXI. fig. 3.) 
Sypiia umbrosa, Butler, Trans. Eat. Soc. p. 204. n. 8 (1881). 
Coloration of omicronigera : primaries dark smoky brown^ faintly shot to beyond the 
cell with violetj and crossed by three nearly equidistant, irregularly undulated and sinuated 
black lines, the second passing through the reniform spot, wliicli is very indistinct and 
greenish grey; a submarginal series of small blackish-dotted wliity- brown spots; apical third 
of costal margin spotted with pale buff; fringe spotted^ and with a basal line of pale buff: 
secondaries pale brown, shining whitish towards the costa : thorax and dorsal abdominal 
tufts dark brown ; abdomen and under surface pale brovyn. Wings below with broad dusky 
external borders : primaries Avith dusky costal border ; secondaries with a small blackislt 
curved anal dash. Expanse of wings 46 millim. 
Shillong, Assam. 
Sypna ccelisparsa. (Plate CXI. fig. 4.) 
Sypna ccelisparsa, Walker, Cat. Lqj. Net. siv. p. 1262. n. 4 (1857). 
Primaries above cupreous brown with purple veins ; the whole surface sprinkled with 
sky-blue scales; markings very similar to those of S. 7normoides, dark piceous brown and 
black ; reniform spot narrow, pale, edged with a series of small blue dots : secondaries with 
the costal area broadly golden brownish, the abdominal two thirds similarly coloured to the 
primaries : body dark brown, the fringes of the tegulse and base of abdomen a little paler ; 
abdomen purplish. Under surface wliity brown, witb faint lilacine reflection : wings crossed 
by a narrow ill-defined smoky- broAvn band, a slightly wider well-defined arched band^ and a 
broad discal belt, which on the secondaries is only separated by four or five spots from the 
outer margin : primaries with well-marked external border, on which is a submarginal series 
of small black crescents. Expanse of wings 53 millim. 
Assam ( Warwick) . 
Sypna pnlclira. (Plate CXI. fig. 5.) 
Sjpna piilchra, Butler, Trans. Ent. Soc. p. 208. n. 19 (1881). 
Primaries alternately banded with ochrcous and blackish, the whole traversed by 
numerous, undulated, parallel, black lines ; all the blackish bands and black lines brilliantly 
shot with green towards the base, and with purple beyond ; external border pale golden butt' 
towards apex; external angle dark brown just below the centre; a submarginal series of 
white-pupilled black dots ; fringe varied with blackish : secondaries with basal half lilacine 
grey; costa cupreous whitish; external area blackish, shot with purple, edged internally and 
streaked at anal angle and on apical fringe with golden ochrcous; submarginal dots as in 
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