204 LEPIDOPTERA INDICA. 



Underside almost as dark as tlie upperside. Foreicing with markings similar. 

 Hindicing with a chrome-yellow basal patch, varying in extent in diflerent examples, 

 in the type specimen the basal third of the wing is so coloured, in some examples 

 from the Nilgiris the chrome-yellow basal patch is much more limited. Antennae 

 black, without markings ; palpi, head and body above and the legs concolorous with 

 the wings, palpi and thorax below greyish, abdomen cinereous. 



Female like the male, the spots on the forewing a little larger. 



Expanse of wings, ,? ? lyV inches. 



Habitat. — Southern India. 



Distribution. — The type came from Travancore ; we possess a male from the 

 Nilgu-is, it is a rare species'; our description and figm'es are from the male in our 

 collection and from a female in the B. M., also from the Nilgiris. 



INDO-MALAYAN AND CHINESE ALLIED SPECIES. 



Notocrypta curvifascia, Plesioneura curvifascia, Felder, Wien Ent. Mon. vi. p. 29 (1862). Notocrypta 



curvifascia, Leech, Butt, of China, etc. ii. p. 626, pi. 38, fig. 1, ^ (1893). Habitat, W. China. 

 Notocrijpta pria, Plesioneura pria, Druce, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1873, p. 359. Habitat, Borneo. 

 Notocrypta volux, Plesioneura volux, Mabille, Ann. Soc. Ent. Belg. 1883, p. Ivi. Habitat, Luzon, 



Philippines. 

 Notocrypta clavata, Plesioneura clavata, Staudinger, Iris, 1889, p. 153, pi. 2, fig. 9. Habitat, 



Palawan, Philippines. 

 Notocrypta celebensis, Plesioneura celebensis, Staudinger, I.e. Habitat, Celebes. 

 Notocrypta singuJaris, Carystus singularis, Mabille, Ann. Soc. Ent. Belg. xxxra. p. 51 (1893). 



Habitat, W. Java. 

 Notocrypta rectifascia, Notocrypta feisthameUi var. rectifascia, Leech, Butt, of China, etc. ii. p. 628, 



pi. 38, fig. 2, $ (1893). Habitat, W. China. 

 Notocrypta quadrata, Elwes and Edwards, Trans. Zool. Soc. 1897, p. 241, pi. 20, fig. 3, $ . Habitat, 



Kina Balu, Borneo. 

 Notocrypta inornata, Elwes and Edwards, i.e. fig. 15, $ . Habitat, Kina Balu. 

 Notocrypta avaitana, Friihstorfer, Iris, 1911, p. 22, fig. 2 (genitalia). Habitat, Java. 

 Notocrypta alinkara, Friihstorfer, I.e. Habitat, Mindanao, Philippines. 

 Notocrypta devadatta, Friihstorfer, I.e. p. 24, fig. 3 (genitalia). Habitat, W. Sumatra. 

 Notocrypta sidha, Friihstorfer, I.e. Habitat, Java. 

 Notocrypta yaya, Friihstorfer, I.e. p. 25. Habitat, S. Celebes. 



Genus UDASPES. 



Udaspes, Moore, Lep. Ceylon, i. p. 177 (1881). Distant, Rhop. Malayana, p. 398 (1886). Watson, 

 Hesp. Ind. p. 124 (1891); id. Proc. Zool. Soc. 1893, p. 113; id. Journ. Bo. Nat. Hist. Soc. ix. 

 1895, p. 432. Elwes and Edwards, Trans. Zool. Soc. 1897, p. 243. 



Forewing, vein 12 reaches costa just before the end of cell, cell long, but less than 

 two-thirds the length of costa, discocellulars sub-erect, the lower considerably the 



