126 NOTOCRYPTA. 



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 Notocrypta from 

 Celcenorrhinus, 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, 

 Wood-Mason and de Niceviile, this being always a feature in 

 Celaenorrhinus. 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 comparison of 

 specimens is desirable. The transformations of A 7 . alysos, Moore, only 

 are known." (de Niceville, I. c.) 



177. NOTOCRYPTA ALY80S, MOORE. 



Plesioneura alysos, Moore, P. Z. S., 1865, p. 789. 



Plesioneura alysos, Moore, Lep. Cey., vol. i, p. 178, pi. 67, figs. 3 a, b 



(1881). 



Plesioneura alysos, Distant, Rhop. Mai., p. 399, pi. 34, fig. 7 (1886). 



Notocrypta alysos, de NicSville, Journ. Bomb. Nat. Hist. Soc., vol. iv, 

 p. 189, n. 2 (1889). 



" Upperside dark fuliginous-brown ; forewing with a broad oblique 

 discal irregular-margined semi-transparent white band, and with one or two, 

 and in some specimens three, very small similar conjugated spots obliquely 

 before the apex, also one or two reversely oblique lower spots : cilia paler 

 brown. Underside paler ; band and spots as above ; along exterior 

 margin of forewing and exterior half of hindwing suffused with purple-grey. 

 Antennae brown, with a subapical white streak. Palpi and thorax beneath 

 greyish-brown. 



Expanse : if inches. 



Habitat : Bengal." (Moore, I. c. in P. Z. S.) 



" Larva pale green, white-speckled ; head black-bordered. Feeds on 

 Zinziberacea. Pupa pale green." (Moore, I. c. in Lsp. Cey.) 



Occurs Ceylon (Hutchison ; Wade ; Mackwood) ; Tavoy, Ponsekai (Elwes 

 and de Niceviile) ; Andamans ; Cachar ( Wood-Mason and de Niceville) ; Kumaon 

 as P. curvifascia (Doherty); Orissa (Taylor)', Sikkim (de Niceville ; Elwes); 

 Nilgiris (Hampson) ; Himalayas, Assam, Ganjam, Wynaad, Travancore 

 (de Niceville). 



Messrs. Wood-Mason and de Niceville note that all their specimens 

 from S. Andaman, the Sikkim hills, and the N.-E. frontier districts (Sibsagar, 

 &c.) all agree with one another in always having three conjugated obliquely- 

 placed subapical semi-transparent spots, and usually three in the reversed 



