140 AUSTRALIAN RUOPALOCKRA : LYCr^MD^E, III., 



This species is allied to the smaller form K. zalmora, also 

 recorded from Darnley Island, but differs from that species in 

 neuration and in the position of the large black spot on underside 

 of hindwing. 



This constitutes a new record for both genus aud species for 

 Australia. 



Neopithecops, Distant. 



Rhop. Malay, p. 209, 1884: de Niceville, Butt. Ind. iii. p. 51, 

 1890 : Parapithecojys, Moore, Journ. Asiat. Soc. Bengal, liii. pt. 2, 

 p. 20, 1884. 



^'Forewlng small, very broad, elliptical; [costa] much arched 

 from the base, exterior margin convex, posterior margin of equal 

 length with the anterior; costal nervure extending to less than 

 half length of margin; subcostal nervules very short, first sub- 

 costal emitted at one-half before end of discoidal cell, second at 

 one-third before its end, third at one-sixth before its end, dis- 

 coidal cell long, broad. Hindvnng small, ver}- broad, oval; 

 exterior margin very convex. Bod^/ slender; palpi porrect, 

 slender, clothed with short lax scales; legs slender; antenrtce with 

 a well-formed lengthened spatular club." 



"This is a very remarkable little genus, which has a strong 

 superficial likeness to Pithecops, Horsf., and moreover similar 

 habits and flight in the perfect state. It has the costa of the 

 forewing more strongly arched than in any other genus of this 

 group, thus permitting of the wide separation of the costal nervure 

 and the first and second subcostal nervules. The males have no 

 secondary sexual charactei-s " (de Niceville, loc. cif.). 



The type is JV. zahnora, Butl., and the genus probably contains 

 a single very variable species. 



Neopithecops zalmora, Butler (Plate ii., fig. 2). 



Plthecops zalmora, Butl., Cat. Fabr. Lep. B.M. p. 161, 18G9 : 

 iV. zalmora, de Nicev., Butt. Ind. iii. p. 53, 1890: Pith, dharmay 

 Moore, Lep. Cey. i. p. 72, 1881: Parapithecops gaura, Moore, 

 Journ. Asiat. Soc. Bengal, liii. pt. 2, p. 20, 1884 : N. horsfieldi, 

 Dist., Rhop. Malay, p. 210, 1884. 



