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EREBID^. 
Subsequent to the publication of the description of this species (in the ' Proceedings of 
the Zoological Society' for 188.3, p. 25) Mr. Moore described a species of Syjma under the 
name of S. renisigna ; a comparison of the two types shows that the latter is a male inter- 
mediate between the males in the Museum Collection, and corresponding perfectly with the 
type specimen of the female of S. obscurata. As it is most improbable that three species are 
repi'esented in the Museum series from Darjiling and Assam, S. reaisigna will become a 
synonym of S. obscurata. 
Sypna alMlinea. (Piute CXIl. fig. 1.) 
Sypiia albilinea, Walker, Cat. Lcp. llet. xiv. p. 12G1. n. 3 (18.57). 
Fuliginous brown with a slight golden reflection : j^rimaries with the basal half oHve- 
brown, banded and traversed near the base and in the middle by slender sinuous lilac lines ; 
basal area also sprinkled with lilac scales ; orljicular spot obsolete ; reniform spot ill-defined, 
oblique, elongated, testaceous, interrupting the outer lilac lines; a dark brown costal spot 
edged with lilac just beyond the middle; external third suff'used with lilac, especially upon 
the veins, sparsely irrorated with black, traversed by an ill-defined interrupted crenulated 
l)lack line ; an oblique internally bisinuated subapical black patch ; a marginal series of small 
squamose marginal spots : secondaries with whitish basi-costal area and two pale bands, one 
just beyond the middle, the other abbreviated, submarginal ; anal area crossed by undulating 
lines of lilac dark fuliginous and blackish, and sprinkled along the veins with lilac scales ; 
three pale yellowish apical spots extending into the fringe : body brown ; abdomen greyish, 
with the posterior margins of the segments lilacine. Wings below with pale greyish-brown 
basal ai'ca which is bounded externally by a fuliginous brown band, next to which is an arched 
white belt enclosing a blackish band ; disk dark fuliginous brown : primaries with whitish 
external border enclosing a submarginal series of black lunules ; fringe tipped with blackish : 
secondaries with a large whitish apical patch, divided by two or three fuliginous brown streaks, 
which extend into the fringe ; a second patch, undivided, at anal angle : body below pale 
greyish brown. Expanse of wings 55 millim. 
Silhet. 
The name chosen for this species is singularly inappropriate, as there is not a white line 
on any part of it. 
Sypna moorei. (Plate CXII. fig. 3.) 
Sypna moorei, Butler, Trans. Ent. Soc. p. 209. n. 22 (1881). 
Near to S. rectilinea and 8. achatina ; larger than the former and smaller than the 
latter; much darker than either; the lilacine wbite lines on the primaries more slender than 
in S, achatina, indistinct ; the pale areas barely indicated : primaries with a distinct zigzag 
black discal line ; a wbite orbicular point in the cell ; submarginal spots black and white. 
Under surface as in S. achatina. Expanse of wings 56 millim. 
Shillong, Assam. 
