NOTOCRYPTA. 129 



Mr. Distant quotes the above description and gives a figure from a 

 Malaccan specimen in the British Museum. He also remarks that "this 

 species is much more closely allied to P. alysos, and appears remote in 

 appearance from C. dan." 



I have numerous specimens of a Notocrypta from Rangoon which agree 

 very closely with Distant's figure. I give below a fuller description than 

 Mr. Butler's. Upperside brown, clothed with yellowish hairs at base of 

 forewing and along inner margin of hindwing. Three transparent white 

 spots in middle of forewing, the upper in cell largest, the middle one small 

 and projecting beyond the other two, three small subapical white dots. 

 Hindwing unmarked. Underside, spots on forewing as on upperside, two 

 yellowish spots on costa above white band somewhat as in N. alysos, and a 

 prominent diffused whitish spot at anal angle. Hindwing with the base 

 clothed with yellowish hairs, causing the outer half to appear distinctly 

 darker. 



This species is evidently allied to N. alysos, but can be readily distin. 

 guished from it by the tone of the upperside which is brown and not nearly 

 black, and also by the arrangement of the three discal spots on the forewing ; 

 the upper and lower ones are almost equal in size, the upper being 

 slightly larger, and the middle one being a small triangular spot with its 

 apex wedged between the other two, and its base projecting well beyond 

 them. The upper and lower spots are connected internally for about 

 half their width. 



It also is apparently closely allied to N. monteithi, Wood- Mason and 

 de Niceville, with the figure of which it agrees fairly except that it entirely 

 wants the fourth or lowest spot of the discal band, and also invariably has 

 three white subapical dots. 



It also appears to be very closely allied to the C. cacns and C. consents 

 of de Niceville, especially to the former, but these species are described as 

 belonging to the genus Celcenovrhinus and so presumably rest with outspread 

 wings, while the Rangoon species referred to above rests with wings raised 

 above the back. 



182.-NOTOCRYPTA MONTEITHI, WOOD- MASON and DE NICEVILLE. 



Plesionenra monteithi, Wood-Mason and de Niceville, J. A. S. B., vol. 

 Iv, pt. 2, p. 391, n. 245, pi. xviii, figs. 3, 3 a, 9 (1886). 



Notocvypta monteithi, de Niceville, Journ. Bomb. Nat. Hist. Soc., 

 vol. iv, p. 190, n. 10 (1889). 



" ? . Upperside, both wings rich dark brown with a vinous tinge in 

 some lights. Forewing with a semi-transparent white lustrous discal band 

 of four completely-conjugated spots, the first large and oblong at the end of 

 the cell ; the second posterior and external to it at the base of the interspace 

 between the second and third median nervules, and consequently wedge- 

 shaped ; the third conterminous with the first and second, forming an oblong 



