382 JOURNAL, BOMBAY NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY, 1891. 



a thick tuft of long ochreous hairs nearly as long as the joint itself. 

 This character, in addition to the habits of the insect being so 

 foreign to that of true Notocryptas, forces me to the conclusion that 

 this butterfly is not rightly placed in this genus. 



Dr. 0. Staudinger, in " Iris," vol. ii, pp. 151-153 (1889), refers 

 to the Plesioneura signata of Druce, and according to his identification 

 of the species considers it to be an aberration of Notocrypta alysos, 

 Moore, lacking the small white spots beyond the outer discal band of 

 the forewing, usually more or less present in that species. I quite 

 agree with the writer that the presence or absence of these spots is 

 probably of no specific importance whatever in JV. alysos, but if I 

 have correctly identified P. signata, I cannot agree with him as to 

 its being an aberration of JV. alysos, as almost certainly it is not a 

 true Notocrypta at all, but should be placed in another genus. 



27. TAPENA LAXMI, de NiceviUe, PL G, Fig. 28, 6 . 



Plesioneura laxmi, de Niceville, Journ. A. S. B., vol. lvii, pt. 2, p. 290, n. 21, pi. 

 xiii, fig. 5, female (1888) ; Celcenorrhinus laxmi, id., Journ. Bomb. Nat. Hist. Soc, vol. 

 iv, p. 186, n. 32 (1889). 



Habitat : Upper Tenasserim ; Perak. 



Expanse : 6 , 1 *4 inches. 



Description : Male. Upperside, both icings dark olive- greenish ; 

 an obscure rather broad blackish marginal band. Forewing with three 

 subapical spots arranged in a crescent, the upper the largest ; a discal 

 macular band consisting of an oblong spot on the costa, a large qua- 

 drate spot at the end of the discoidal cell, a small spot at the base of 

 the second median interspace, a larger spot in the middle of the first 

 median interspace, with a minute dot below it in the submedian in- 

 terspace — all lustrous semi-diaphanous white ; an oval black spot to- 

 wards the base of the submedian interspace ; a broad submarginal 

 band of a darker shade than the ground. Hindwing with a black spot 

 below the costa towards the base of the wing ; two parallel discal 

 series of suffused black spots. Undekside, both wings rather paler 

 than on the upperside. Forewing marked as above, but with two 

 dots in the submedian interspace instead of one forming part of the 

 discal macular band, and surrounded with a black ring. Hindicing 

 with all the black spots smaller, more compact and better defined 

 than on the upperside. Cilia, head, and body concolorous with the 



