188 BOMBAY NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY. 



Habitat ; Malacca (Butler and Distant) ; Margherita, Assam 

 (Doherty). 



Genus NOTOCEYPTA, nov. 



Plesioneura, Felder , Wien. Ent. Monatschr., vol. vi, p. 29 (1862), preoc. ; PlesiO' 

 iieura, part, auctoram. 



Differs from CelcenorrJiimis, Hubner, in the forewing being more 

 triangular, the middle disco-cellular nervule being distinctly longer 

 instead of shorter than the lower disco-cellular, concave instead of 

 almost straight, the middle and lower disco-cellular nervules taken 

 together less strongly inwardly oblique; the hiNdwing is also 

 shorter and more produced posteriorly, the casta is more arched, 

 the discoidal cell is distinctly shorter, thus causing all the veins 

 which spring from it (the first and second subcostal, the discoidal, 

 and the three median nervules) to be distinctly longer. There is a 

 marked difference in the length of the haustellum or tongue, which 

 in C. leucocera, Kollar, measures 1*8 inches, Id JV. alysos, Moore, 

 only *9 of an inch, or exactly half. Type, the Plesioneura curvifascia- 

 of Felder. 



This diagnosis has been drawn up from bleached wings of both 

 sexes of N. alysos, Moore ; from Sikkim. All the species of this 

 genus settle with closed wings ; through an unfortunate and stupid 

 mistake I once stated that they rest with wide outspread wings. 

 This marked characteristic in life, which at once distinguishes Noto- 

 crypta from CelcenorrJiinus, has led me to discriminate these two 

 genera ; there is also considerable difference in the outline of the 

 wings, and I believe Notocrypta never has the hindwing spotted, 

 except in N. paralyses, W.-M. and de N., this being always a feature 

 in Gelaznorrhinus. The type species, N. curvifascia, was described 

 from China, and has been identified by Messrs. Plotz, Doherty and 

 Leech as synonymous with N. alysos, Moore, but an actual com- 

 parison of specimens is desirable. The transformations of 

 N, alysos, Moore, only are known. 



(1 ) Notocrypta curvifascia, Felder. 



Plesioneura curvifascia, Felder, Wien. Enfc. Monatsch., vol. vi, p- 29, n. 29 (1862) ; 

 id., Elwes, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1881, p. 910 ; id., Plotz, Berl. Ent. Zeits., vol. 

 xxvi, p. 2G3, n. 5.(1882); id., Doherty, Journ. A. S. B., vol. lv, pt. 2, p. 139, n. 260 

 (188G) ; id., Leech, Proc. Zool. Soc. Loud., 1887, p. 427, n. 133. 



Habitat: Ning-po, China (Felder and Elwes); China, India 

 (Plotz) ; Bagheswar, 3,500 feet, Kuuiaon (Doherty) ; Japan (Leech). 



