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wings with a large wliite, somewhat triangnlai', irregularly 

 •edged patch, upper edge extending from base through middle 

 •of cell to vein 7 and two-thirds from base, with a deep inden- 

 tation of ground color in middle and sinuate on either side of 

 this; lower edge crenulate beyond middle, extending from 

 veins 1 to 7, and containing a spot of ground color at base of 

 vein 2 ; a white streak along inner margin, separated 

 from patch by a streak of ground color; cilia as above, but 

 becoming white around ternus. 



The white club of antennae and rich coloring of under side 

 makes this species easy of recognition. 



Cairns, Queensland ; two specimens, in October ; also from 

 New Guinea. 



12. NOTOCRYPTA, Nic. 



Club of antennae elongate, apex pointed, bent. Palpi sub- 

 :ascending, terminal joint short, obtuse, porrected. Posterior 

 tibiae with all spurs, rather long. Forewings in male without 

 stigma ; 3 from rather near 4, 5 somewhat approximated to 4. 

 Hindwings : 5 obsolete. 



71. NoTOCRYPTA FELISTHAMELII, Boisd. 



{Thymele Fei'ithamelii, Boisd., Voy. Astr. Lep., p. 159, pi. ii., 

 £g. 7, 1832 ; Pleisoiieura curvifascia, Feld., Wien. Ent. Mon., 

 vi.. p. 29, 1862 ; P. alysos, Moore, P.Z.S., 1865, p. 789 ; P. albi- 

 fascia, ib. I.e., 1878, p. 843, pi. 843, pi. liii., fig. 3, male; P. 

 restricta, ib., Lep. Cey., i., p. 178, 1881 ; P. volux, Mab., Ann. 

 Soc. Ent. Belg., 1883, p. Ivi. ; P. r^/amto, Stand, Iris., ii., p. 

 153, pi. ii., fig. 9, 1889.) 



Male and female, 36-46 mm. Head, palpi, antennae, thorax, 

 legs, and abdomen blackish, thorax clothed with light fuscous 

 hairs, palpi and abdomen mixed with whitish beneath, club 

 of antennae somewhat ochreous beneath. Forewings elongate, 

 triangular, costa strongly arched, termen obliquely rounded ; 

 black, markings silvery white, hyaline ; a broad transverse irre- 

 gularly edged median band, from immediately beneath costa, 

 slightly curved, and terminating on vein 1 at two-thirds from 

 base ; two sub-costal spots at two-thirds from base ; a similar 

 spot near termen, lying between veins 4 and 5 ; cilia blackish. 

 Hindwings with termen somewhat crenulate ; color and cilia 

 as in forewings; basal and inner margin hairs light fuscous, 

 darker basally. Under side of both wings light fuscous, darker 

 basally ; costa of hindwings dark fuscous, faintly purplish 

 tinged ; markings of upper side of forewings reproduced. 



We have followed Elwes and Edwards in the synonym of this 



