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primaries : body pale. Under surface greyish, with whitish postmedian band enclosing a 
dusky stripe, and followed by a purplish-black tapering belt ; external border buff ; a series 
of white-dotted black subinarginal spots : body buff ; legs varied with grey. Expanse of 
wings 47 millira. 
Darjiling [Lidderdale] . 
Sypna apicalis. (Plate CXI. fig. 6.) 
Sypna apicalis, Butler, Trans. Eat. /S'oc. p. 206. n. 15 (1881). 
Allied to S.fiiinosa and S. catocaloides. From the former it principally differs on the 
upper surface in its more pointed primaries and subangulated secondaries, the latter with a 
large marginal lunate creamy ochreous apical patch ; on the underside, however, it is entirely 
different, and more nearly resembles S. catocaloides, being of a creamy-yellowish colour, the 
wings crossed by three black bands, slightly curved and converging towards the inner margin 
(which they do not, however, reach), angulated on the primaries and undulated on the 
secondaries, where the second and third are almost united from the middle upwards by a 
large subapical blackish blotch ; an indistinct dusky line immediately beyond the third band, 
and a submarginal series of black dots : secondaries with two parallel black dashes at the end 
of the cell. Expanse of wings 53 millim. 
Darjiling [Lidderdale) . 
Sjrpna tenebrosa. (Plate CXI. fig, 7.) 
Sypna tenebrosa, Butler, Trans. Eat. Soc. p. 203. n. 4 (1881). 
Allied to S. martiaa of Felder, but with the broad dark belt of the primaries interrupted 
by the veins ; the discal band bounding the external area darker ; the pale central belt of the 
secondaries obsolete ; the external area paler in the male, darker in the female ; the yellowish 
spots on the fringe of the male only visible towards the apex, those of the female broadly 
interrupted opposite to the median interspaces ; the grey intersecting line also does not cross 
the yellow spots as in S. marlina. The under surface seems to be entirely difterent : it is 
whity brown in the male, creamy whitish in the female, crossed beyond the middle of the 
primaries by an oblique belt, and at the middle of the secondaries by an arched belt of four 
alternately dark-brown and sordid white bands ; the innermost band, however, is indistinct, 
particularly on the secondaries of the male, where it is also interrupted by a whitish disco- 
cellular lunule ; a broad curved discal belt, smoky brown in the male, blackish in the female, 
its outer edge very irregular and forming two unequal projections to the outer margin on 
the secondaries; a submarginal series of lunate black, dots; fringe with dusky tips: body 
below pale buff. Expanse of wings, J 57 millim., $ 59 millim. 
Darjiling [Lidderdale) . 
