NEW AND LITTLE -KNOWN INDIAN BUTTERFLIES. 189 



Note — Messrs. Plotz, Doherty and Leecli identify tlie following 

 species with. this. 



(2) Notocrypta alysos, Moore. 



Plesioneuraalysos, Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc. LoncL, 1865, p. 789 ;idem,id., op. cit.,1877, 

 p. 593 ; idem, id., Lep. Cey., vol. i, p. 178, pl.lxvii, figs. 3, male ; 3<x, female; 3b, larva 

 and pupa (1881) ; idem, id., Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1882, p. 263 ; idem, id., Journ. 

 Linn. Soc. Lond., Zoology, vol. xxi, p. 54 (1S86) ; id., Butler, Trans. Linn. Soc. Lond., 

 Zoology, second series, vol. i, p. 55G, n. 2 (1877) ; id., Wood-Mason and de Niceville, 

 Journ. A. S. B., vol. xlix, pt. 2, p. 241, n. 80(1880); idem, id., op. cit., vol. 1, 

 pt. 2, p. 250, n. 116 (1881); idem, id , op. cit., vol. Iv, pt. 2, p. 390, n. 243 (1886) ; 

 id., de Niceville, Journ. A. S. B., vol. l,"pt. 2, p. 60, n. 128 (1881) ; id., Elwes and de 

 Niceville, Journ. A. S. B., vol. Iv, pt. 2, p. 440, n. 160 (1886) ; id., Elwes, Trans. Ent. 

 Soc. Lond., 1888, p. 461, n. 525 ; id., Mabille, Ann. Soc. Ent. Belg., vol. xxi, p. 33, n. 

 98 (1878) ; id., Distant, Stop. Malay., p. 399, n. 1, pi. xxxiv, fig. 7, male (1886) ; id., 

 Hampsou, Journ. A. S. B., vol. Ivii, pt. 2, p. 368, n. 264 (1888) ; Hesperia alysos, 

 Horsfield and Moore. MS., Cat. Lep. Mus. E. I. C, vol. i, p. 253, n. 577 (1857). 



Habitat : Bengal, Andainans, Ceylon, N.-W. Himalyas, Mergui 

 (Moore) ; Moulmein, Ceylon, Penang, Malacca, Borneo, Java ( Butler) ; 

 Audainans, Cachar (Wood- Mason and de Niceville); Sikkim (de 

 Niceville) ; Tavoy and Ponsekai (Elwes and de Niceville) • Sikkim, 

 Kangra, Andainans, Philippines, Foochow (Elwes) ; Java (Mabille) ; 

 Penang, Province Wellesley, Sungei TJjoug, Singapore (Distant) ; 

 Nilgiri Hills, 3, GOO feet, northern slopes, rare (E 'amp son) ■ Java 

 (Horsfield and Moore) ; Himalayas, Assam, Burma, Orissa, Ganjain, 

 Wynaad, Travancore. 



(3) Notocrypta paralysos, Wood-Mason and de Niceville. 



Plesioneura paralysos, Wood-Mason and d9 Niceville, Proc. A. S. B., 1881, p. 143, 

 n. 15 ; idem, id., Journ. A. S. B., vol. I, pt. 2, p. 257, n. 117 (1881). 



Habitat : South Andaman Isles (Wood-Mason and de Niceville). 



Note— Mr. Elwes (Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond., 1888, p. 461, n. 525) 

 identifies this species with the preceding, but it appears to con- 

 stantly differ from N. alysos in possessing a varying number of white 

 opaque lustrous spots on the underside of the hindwing in both 

 sexes. 



(4) Notocrypta restricta, Moore. 



Plesioneura restricta, Moore, Lep. Cey., vol. i, p. 178 (1881) ; id., Wood-Mason and 

 de Niceville, Journ. A. S. B., vol. Iv, pt. 2, p. 390, n. 244, pi. xvii, fig. 5, male (1887) . 

 id., de Niceville, op. cit., [vol. lii, pt. 2, p. 100, n. 278 (18S3) ; id., Elwes, Trans. Ent.' 

 Soc. Lond., 1888, p. 461, n. 526 j id., Hampson, Jcurn. A. S. B., vol. Ivii, pt. 2, p. 368, 

 n. 265 (1888). 



