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Sypna lucilla. (Plate CXI. fig. 8.) 
S}-pna lucilla, Butler, Trans. Ent. Soc. p. 206. n. 17 (1881). 
Primaries above gravel-brown, crossed by blackish striae and by a very broad and slightly 
irregular cream-coloured belt, which is interrupted upon the costa by a triangular black- 
speckled brown patch, and four or five dots in an oblique series just below it ; a broad slaty- 
grey subbasal band, bounded externally on the inner margin by a small bluish-white spot ; 
discoidal spots pure white, small ; external area crossed by lilacine veins, a very irregular 
black line, followed by a submarginal series of black lunules, spotted externally with pale 
bufi" ; fringe smoky brown : secondaries with the basal area to the central dusky line creamy 
yellowish, with brassy and opaline reflections, but the interno-median area densely clothed 
with pale-brown hair ; a rather broad band just beyond the middle, its upper half creamy 
yellowish, its lower half pinky white, traversed (from the abdominal margin) by an abbre- 
viated grey line ; a broad tapering blackish discal band ; external area testaceous, mottled 
with brown; submarginal markings and fringe as in the primaries; veins shot with lilacine: 
thorax whity brown; abdomen smoky bi'own, with whitish hind margins to the segments. 
Under surface creamy whitish : primaries with the costal and external borders and the apical 
area speckled with black ; three blackish abbreviated stripes, the two first parallel and 
oblique, the third transverse and irregular ; fringe dusky ; a submarginal series of black 
dots : secondaries speckled with black, crossed in the middle by two slender undulated and 
obtusely angulated blackish lines ; disk crossed by a slightly sinuous diffused blackish band ; 
a submarginal series of black dots ; fringe greyish towards the anal angle. Expanse of wings 
57 millim. 
Darjiling [Lidderdale). 
Sypna obscurata. (Plate CXI. fig. 9.) 
Sypna obscurata, Bniler, Trans. Ent. Soc. p. 207. n. 18 (1881). 
Nearly allied to the preceding species, but altogether considerably darker, the ground- 
colour of the primaries being of a ferruginous red tint, clouded with shining grey and mottled 
with black ; the subbasal band is of a shining indigo-blue rather than slate-colour, and is 
barely distinguishable from the grey cloudings ; the broad belt is dull greyish white, streaked 
with metallic green, and mottled here and there with black in the male ; in the female it 
is scarcely paler than the rest of the ground-colour, but in both sexes its inner edge is 
considerably straighter than in S. lucilla ; the reniform spot is sometimes represented by 
three white dots in a slightly curved series : the secondaries are cupreous brown, with iiale 
costal border and the commencement of a pale central band ; the latter is, however, almost 
lost as it reaches the radial vein ; the other markings are altogether darker, the apex is 
spotted with buff ; the body is much darker ; the under surface much more densely mottled 
and distinctly banded with black. Expanse of wings, ,^51 millim., ? 57 millim. 
Shillong and Darjiling {Lidderdale). 
