238 MESSRS. H. J. ELWES AND JAMES EDWARDS : 



! PlTHAURIA AITCHISONI. 

 Pithauriopsis aitchisoni, Wood-Mason & de Niceville, Jour. As. Soc. Beng. 1886, p. 387, pi. xv. 



fig. 4, 6; Watson, Hesp. Ind. p. 28 (1891). 

 Pamphila glauca, Staudinger, in litt. 



? . Hind wing above brown, without the grey clothing found in the male. Hind 

 wing below red-brown, paler along the dorsum, with the following pure white markings, 

 namely : — a streak from the base along cell 7 as far as its middle, a streak in the basal 

 half of cell 6, but not reaching the base of that cell, a series of four small oblong 

 spots, one near the middle of each of cells 2, 3, 4, and 5, and sometimes another beyond 

 the middle of cell 1 b. Otherwise like the male. 



Described from a specimen from Kina Balu, Borneo, ex coll. Staudinger. 



Hah. Kina Balu, Borneo {Staudinger) ; Java (Piepers). 



NoTOCRYPTA. 



Plesioneura, Felder, Wien. ent. Monatsb. vi. p. 29 (1862), nom. praocc. Type curvifascia. Felder. 

 Notocrypta, de Niceville, Jour. Bomb. Nat. Hist. Soc. 1889, p. 188; Watson, P. Z. S. 1893, 

 p. 112. Type curvifascia, Felder. 



Antenna? about two-thirds as long as costa, rather shorter in the female. Palpi 

 ascending ; third joint porrect, almost concealed. Fore wing : vein 5 arising much 

 nearer 4 than 6, and having a distinct upward curve, or straight and practically inter- 

 mediate between veins 4 and 6 ; vein 2 from the basal third of the lower edge of the 

 cell. Hind tibiae with two long pairs of spurs. 



Species blackish brown above, with white hyaline markings on the fore wing, of 

 which the most prominent is a more or less complete broad band passing from the 

 middle of the costa to the distal third of the dorsum. 



In ' Iris,' vol. ii. p. 151, Dr. Staudinger attempts to show that signata, Druce (P. Z. S. 

 1873, p. 360, pi. xxxiii. fig. 8), is an aberration of alysos, Moore; but this view is 

 scarcely tenable, because, apart from the differences in the venation in the two insects, 

 the band on the fore wing in signata, Druce (recte Charmion ficulnea, Hew.), is cut 

 short by vein 2, which is not the case in alysos, Moore (recte feisthamelii, Bdv.). 



The species dealt with in this paper may be distinguished as follows : — 



1 (6). Vein 5 in the fore wiug curved, its basal portion receding 



from vein 6 ; vein 5 therefore arising much nearer to 

 vein 4 than to vein 6. 



2 (5). Hind wing below without white spots. 



3 (4). General direction of the termen of the fore wing forming 



a more or less obtuse angle with the dornuin. Fore 

 wing above with or without white spots besides those 

 forming the band feisthamelii, Bdv. 



