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[Holland. 
Genus Hypolycsena, Feld. 
97. H. Sipylus , Feld. Beise Nov. Lep. ii, p. 242, PI. xxx, figs. 
15,16. <J. 
Genus Iraota, Moore. 
98. I. Johnsoniana, n. sp., PI. IV, fig. 6, underside, 9 . 
Upper side : — Head, thorax and abdomen a dark brown. Wings 
dark brown, becoming almost black upon the costa and apical area 
of the primaries. The primaries are further ornamented by a sub- 
triangular patch of violaceous scales below the cell and near the 
base of the wing. The fringes are white, conspicuously so near 
the outer angle of the primaries. Under side : — The ground color 
of the wings is brown. The primaries are tinged with rufous at the 
base, and the inner margin for two-thirds of the distance from the 
base is broadly white. A narrow white band runs through the cell 
from the base to the extremity of the cell, and just beyond the cell 
there is a subtriangnlar spot of white, which is succeeded by a 
curved series of four white spots, followed by a submarginal white 
line poorly defined, near the apex. The margin is narrowly black, 
defined inwardly with a very fine white line. The cilia are white. 
The secondaries have the outer third oclneous. The costal margin 
at the base is narrowly edged with white. A moderately broad 
band of white starts at the base upon the cell, and runs with a 
slight upward curve to about the middle of the costa, which it does 
not quite reach. A narrow and irregularly curved white line starts 
from the inner margin and runs across the wing to the origin of 
the first median nervule, thence outwardly to the origin of the sec- 
ond medium nervule, then upwardly across the end of the cell in 
the direction of the broad white band upon the cell. This line is 
succeeded by an irregularly curved series of black lunules travers- 
ing the wing just before the outer third, and margined externally 
and internally by white, the white being most conspicuous at the 
costal margin. The margin is adorned by small, dark lunules be- 
tween the nervules at their extremities, those near the outer angle 
being brown, and those near the anal angle being black, and all 
being inwardly defined by white. The margins are as upon the 
primaries. Expanse of wings, 45mm. Type in the collection of 
the author. 
Mr. Distant has named a species in this genus after Boswell, for 
