LYGNIODES— SPIEAMIA. 89 
Lygnicdes reducens, var. E-antiqua. 
Female, With a prominent black ^ -shaped mark in the cell of fore wing, of which the 
typical form has no trace ; the black bands and submarginal spots distinct and diffused. 
Sypna ochreicilia. (Plate CXLVII. fig. 1.) 
Expanse Ij^ inch. 
Male audi female. Fore wing black-brown, with slight purplish tinge; the following 
waved indistinct narrow black bands, subbasal, antemedial, submarginal, and a double medial 
one, enclosing a small round grey or ochreous reniform spot ; a series of small submarginal 
lunules, white on black ground ; an ochreous antecilial line. Hind wing black-brown ; cilia 
ochreous, except between third median nervule and submedian nervure ; a submarginal 
ochreous streak from anal angle. Underside paler : fore wing with a diffused double medial 
pale ochreous band ; outer margin ochreous, with a submarginal series of black points ; three 
ochreous strigai on costa towards apex : hind wing, inner and outer margins pale ochreous ; 
a lunule at end of cell, and narrow waved black medial band outwardly bordered with ochreous. 
Antennjfi of male with brown pectinations; palpi ochreous in front; legs ringed with 
ochreous. Head, thorax, and abdomen black-brown. 
Near S. submarginalis, which is without the ochreous cilia of hind wing and streak from 
anal angle. 
HYPOPYEIDzE. 
Spiramia indenta. (Plate CXLVII. figs. 20, 21.) 
Expanse 2| inches. 
Male and female. Intermediate between S. retorta and S. triloba, the markings less 
distinct than in the former, more distinct than in the latter ; the comet-shaped mark with 
chocolate centre (in the female), its outer margin with two indentations, not obsolescent as 
iu /S. triloba, and well separated from the curved medial band. 
Also in Coll. B. M. from Sylhet, Java, and Ceylon. 
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