168 SPOLIA ZEYLANICA. 
The figure in Moore’s “ Lepidoptera of Ceylon ” is evidently 
drawn from a very dwarfed specimen, as, with the exception of 
G. thyrsis, it is the largest Hesperid in the Island. I have 
never seen a specimen alive, and the Kandy collectors were for 
many years quite unable to supply me with one. In August, 
1918, however, it was common near Kandy, and a collector 
brought me a fair number, of which six were females. 
The clasp is figured on PI. 4, fig. 11. 
“Found also in Colombo, Ratnapura, and Pattipola ” 
(F. M. Mackwood). 
{ 212. Novrocrypra Aatysos ; Plesioneura alysos, M. 
212a. NovTocRYPTA RESTRICTA ; Plesioneura restricta, M. 
Grouped as Notocrypta feisthamelit by Elwes and Edwards, 
but Swinhoe (“ Lepidoptera Indica ’’) gives feisthamelit and 
restricta from Ceylon. 
NV. feisthamelii, or races thereof, is found in India, Malaya, 
China, Japan, Philippines, &c. 
I agree with Moore that there are two distinct forms in 
Ceylon, but they may prove to be merely seasonal varieties of 
our local race: /st, alysos—Upper side fore wing : The white 
band is of nearly even width throughout, and its outer edge 
has a fairly regular curve. Beyond this band there is, as a 
rule, one spot in interspace 4, but this is sometimes absent. 
I have seen a few specimens in which there was also a very 
minute spot in interspace 5. Under side: The white band is 
always continued to the costa by an opaque whitish patch. 
2nd, restricta—Upper side fore wing : The white band broad 
in interspace 2, and narrower in the cell and interspace 1. 
White spots outside the band in 3, 4, 6, 7, and 8, and oceca- 
sionally in 5. The spot in 6 is sometimes absent. That in 
interspace 3 1s always the largest ; this spot is never present in 
alysos. ‘The white band is never continued to the costa below. 
I have examined a great number of specimens, but so far 
I have seen only one exception to the rule in Ceylon, that, if 
the band below is continued to the costa, there are never more 
than two spots beyond the band, and very rarely more than 
one ; whereas, if it is not so continued, there are always 4 to 6. 
The sole exception is in the Colombo Museum collection. In 
addition to the small spots in 4 and 5, it has two very minute 
