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at the origin of vein 2, 2 from less than one-third before tlie end, costa and outer 

 margin evenly rounded. Antennae more than half the length of the costa of forewiug ; 

 club moderate, with a short abrupt, pointed crook ; palpi porrect, second joint densely 

 clothed, inclining a little upwards, third joint porrect, minute, bluntly conical, almost 

 concealed ; hind tibiae naked and with two pairs of long spurs. 

 Type, Plesioneura curcifascia, Felder, from China. 



NOTOCRYPTA FEISTHAMELII. 



Plate 803, figs. 1, (J , la, ? , lb. (^ , Ic, larva. 



Thymele feisthami'lii, Boisduval, Voy. Astr. Lep. p. 159, pi. 2, fig. 7 (1832). 



Plesioneura feistliamelii, Druce, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1873, p. .511. 



Notocrypta feisthamelii, Watson, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1893, p. 113. Leech, Butt, of China, etc. ii. p. 627 



(1893). de Niceville, Gazetteer of Sikkim, Butt. p. 185 (1894). Watson, Journ. Bo. Nat. Hist. 



Soc. is. 1895, p. 435. David.son, Bell and Aitken, id. xi. 1897, p. 62 (larva and pupa). Ehves 



and Edwards (part). Trans. Zool. Soc. 1897, p. 239. Mackinnon and de Niceville, Journ. Bo. 



Nat. Hist. Soc. xi. 1898, p. 599, pi. W, fig. 28 (larva). Swinhoe, Trans. Ent. Soc. 1908, p. 26. 



Adamson, Trans. N. H. Soc. Northumberland, etc. 1908, p. 144. Friihstorfer, Iris, 1911, p. 22. 

 Plesioneura alysos, Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1865, p. 789 ; id. idem, 1877, p. 593 ; id. Lep. Ceylon, i. 



p. 178, pi. 67, figs. 3, (J, 3a, ?, 3b, larva and pupa (1881). de Niceville, Journ. As. Soc. 



Bengal, 1881, p. 60. Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1882, p. 263. Elwes and de Niceville, Journ. As. 



Soc. Bengal, 1886, p. 440. Distant, Rhop. Malayana, p. 399, pi. 34, fig. 7, $ (1886). Moore, 



Journ. Linn. Soc. Zool. Lond. 1886, p. 54. Aitken, Journ. Bo. Nat. Hist. Soc. 1887, p. 43. 



Watson, id. 1888, p. 27. Elwes, Trans. Ent. Soc. 1888, p. 461. 

 Notocrypta alysos, de Niceville, Journ. Bo. Nat. Hist. Soc. 1889, p. 189. Fergusson, id. 1891, p. 448. 



Watson, He.sp. Ind. p. 126 (1891). Elwes, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1892, p. 658. J. J. Walker, Trans. 



Ent. Soc. 1895, p. 473. Swinhoe, Trans. Ent. Soc. 1908, p. 26. Hannyngton, Journ. Bo. Nat. 



Hist. Soc. 1910, p. 372. FrUhstorfer, Iris, 1911, p. 23. 

 Plesioneura varians, Maassen, pict. i. pi. 39, fig. 11. Plotz, Berl. ent. Zeit. xxvi. p. 262 (1882), 



unpublished plate No. 237. 

 Notocrypta varians, de Niceville, Journ. Bo. Nat. Hist. Soc. 1889, p. 192. 

 Plesioneura chimsera, Plutz, I.e. unpublished plate No. 238. 

 Notocrypta cldmxra, de Niceville, I.e. 



Imago. — Male. Upperside black. Forewing with a broad, post-medial, transverse, 

 white band, in a slight outward curve, composed of three large conjoined spots, the 

 upper one filling the end of the cell, its upper margin usually somewhat rounded, the 

 two lower spots in the first median and lower interspaces more or less quadrate, two or 

 three sub-apical white dots in a nearly straight line from near the costa, another in 

 interspace 4 towards the outer margin and sometimes another inwards in interspace 3. 

 all these dots small, varying in number in different examples and sometimes entirely 

 absent. Ilindwing without markings. Cilia of forewings brown, of hiudwing paler 

 and somewhat greyish. Underside paler thau the upperside, the outer margins slightly 



