26 
EEEBID^.— OMMATOPHOEID^. 
EEEBID^. 
SYPNA, Gum. 
Sypna achatina. (Plate XLVII. fig. 7.) 
Sypna achatiua, Butler, Cist. Ent. ii. p. 245. n. 2 (1877). 
S $ . Allied to S. picta, but with the pale areas of the primaries and the whole of the 
secondaries paler, the dark lines well marked : primaries crossed in tlie centre by an irregular 
H-like character, formed of two white-edged, blue-speckled bands, united by a slender blue 
line just below the middle ; the anterior band interrupted by the reniform spot, which is 
yellowish ; a white dot in the cell : secondaries with two subcentral lines, the outer one 
angulated and distinct ; outer border separated into alternately dusky and pale streaks ; other- 
wise much like S. picta. Expanse of wings, $ 2 inches, ? 2 inches 5-7 lines. 
Hakodate ; Yokohama {Jonas). 
Sypna fuliginosa. (Plate XLVII. fig. 8.) 
Sypna fuliginosa, Butler, Cist. Ent. ii. p. 245. n. 4 (1877). 
Fuliginous brown, traversed by darker and paler lines ; primaries (especially in the male) 
shot with violet; a broad, partly black-edged, tolerably regular brown belt, slightly paler than 
the ground-colour and crossing the wing just beyond the cell; a white dot in the cell ; reni- 
form spot streaked with testaceous internally, blackish-edged externally ; external area slightly 
paler than the ground-colour, black- edged internally; border as in the preceding species: 
secondaries (excepting the apical fringe) almost as in S. picta ; under surface similar. 
Expanse of wings, 2 inches, $ 2 inches 5 lines. 
(5*, Yokohama {Pryer) ; $ , Hakodate {Whitely). 
OMMATOPHORIDtE. 
NYCTIPAO, Hilbn. 
Nyctipao lastitia. (Plate XLVII. fig. 9.) 
Nyctipao Isetitia, Butler, Ann. ^ Mag. Nat. Ilist. ser. 5, vol. i. p. 291 (1878). 
Near to N. crepuscularis, but altogether duller; the white discal stripe not bordered 
with lilac ; the yellowish outer border of the arched white stripe and the diffused oblique bars 
on the external area replaced by dull pale brown ; all the dark areas fuliginous ; the ocellus 
smaller, its anterior margin more regularly convex ; the white lunules on the disk of all the 
wings more slender and enclosing large blackish spots. Under surface darker and duller, the 
white spots of the discal series rather larger, and the other spots smaller ; the inner arched 
