198 LEPIDOPTEBA INDICA. 



INDO-MALAYAN AND CHINESE ALLIED SPECIES. 



Macltachts musca, Pamphila(?) niusca, Mabille, Bull. Soc. Ent. Fr. 1876, p. xxvi. jEromachus 



musca, Semper, Rhop. Philipp. p. 305 (1892). Habitat, Philippines. 

 Machachus nanus, Cj-clopides nanus, Leech, Entom. xxiii. p. 49 (1890). .(Eromachus nanus, Leech, 



Butt, of China, etc. ii. p. 620, pi. 40, fig. 21, ^ (1893). Habitat, Shanghai, Ichang. 



DIVISION II. 



In the remaining genera the middle discocellular of the forewing is much longer 

 than the lower, generally nearly (sometimes quite) twice as long, vein 5 arising from 

 tlieir junction much closer to the lower end of the cell than to vein 6, curving 

 upwards to get into position between veins 4 and 6 before reaching the outer margin 

 of the wing. They can be divided into three natural sub-families forming a regular 

 graduated series throughout. 



Sub-Family NOTOCRYPTIN^. 



Antennae with a short terminal crook ; palpi porrect, second joint inclining 

 upwards, densely scaled, third minute, bluntly conical ; hind tiljife with two j^airs of 

 spurs. Wings broad. Foreioing with the outer margin rounded, discocellulars sub- 

 erect ; cell long, but less than two-thirds the length of the costa, vein 3 from close to 

 lower end of cell ; 2 from about one-third from the base. Hindwing, vein 7 emitted 

 close to upper end of cell ; discocellulars and vein 5 very faint, but distinguishable ; 

 vein 3 from close to lower end of cell, 2 from beyond the middle. No secondary 

 sexual characters. 



Genus NOTOCRYPTA. 



Plesioneura, Felder, Wien Ent. Mon. vi. p. 29 (1862) (nom. prseocc). Moore, Lep. Ceylon, i. p. 177 

 (1881). Distant, Rhop. Malayana, p. 399 (1886). Watson, Hesp. Ind. p. 12.5 (1891). 



Notocrypta, de Niceville, Journ. Bo. Nat. Hut. Soc. 1889, p. 188. Watson, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1893, 

 p. 112. Leech, Butt, of China, etc. ii. p. 626 (1893). Watson, Journ. Bo. Nat. Hist. Soc. is. 

 1895, p. 431. Ehves and Edwards, Trans. Zool. Soc. 1897, p. 238. 



Fureicing, vein 12 ends on costa opposite the end of the cell ; cell less than two- 

 thirds the length of the costa, discocellulars sub-erect, the lower much shorter than the 

 middle discocellular, vein 3 emitted close to lower end of cell, 2 from about one-third 

 from the base ; costa slightly arched, the wing somewhat apically produced in the male, 

 apex blunt, outer margin rounded, about as long as the hinder margin in the male ; 

 in the female the hinder margin is somewhat longer, the outer margin consequently 

 ijeing less oblique. Ilindiving with vein 7 from close to upper end of cell, discocellulars 

 and vein 5 very faint, 3 from close to lower end of cell, the cell inconspicuously angled 



