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



a right angle with the dorsum. Fore wing above 



without white spots except those forming the band . quadrat a, n. sp. 



5 (2) . Hind wing below with an angular white spot near the 



distal third of the cell and another near the basal third [de Nicev. 



of cell 2 paralysos, Wood-Mason & 



6 (1). Vein 5 in the fore wing straight, practically intermediate 



between veins 4 and 6. 



7 (10). "Base of cell 3 on the fore wing not filled up with white. 



8 (9). Basal fifth or fourth of hind wing below yellow. 



Subtornal blotch on fore wing below obsolete or 



wanting basiflava, de Nicev. 



9 (8). Hind wing below pale brown. Subtornal blotch on fore 



wing 



below sordid white inornata, n. sp. 



10 (7). Base of cell 3 on the fore wing filled np by a triangular [de Nicev. 



white spot monteithi, Wood-Mason & 



NOTOCRTPTA FEISTHAMELII. 

 Thymele feist hamelii, Boisduval, Voy. Astr., Lep. p. 159, pi. ii. fig. 7 (1832). 

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

 Plesioneura alysos, Moore, P. Z. S. 1865, p. 789 ; id. Lep. Cey. i. p. 178, pi. lxvii. figs. 3 $, 3 a 2, 



3b larva and pupa (1881) ; Distant, Rhop. Mai. p. 399, pi. xxxiv. fig. 7, <J (1886). 

 Plesioneura albifascia, Moore, P. Z. S. 1878, p. 843, pi. liii. fig. 3, S ■ 

 Plesioneura restricta, Moore. Lep. Cey. i. p. 178 (1881) ; Wood-Mason & de Niceville, Jour. As. 



Soc. Beng. 1887, p. 390, pi. xvii. fig. 5, J . 

 Plesioneura volux, Mabille, Ann. Soc. Ent. Belg. 1883, p. lvi. 

 ? Plesioneura clavata, Staudinger, Iris, ii. p. 153, pi. ii. fig. 9 (1889). 

 Notocnjpta alysos, Watson, Hesp. Ind. p. 126 (1891). 

 Notocrypta albifascia, Watson, Hesp. Ind. p. 128 (1891). 



Notocrypta feisthameli, var. rectifascia, Leech, Butt. China, &c. p. 627, pi. xxxviii. fig. 2, <$ (1894). 

 Notocrypta curvifascia, Leech, t. c. p. 626, pi. xxxviii. fig. 1, S ■ 

 Notocnjpta restricta, Leech, t. c. p. 627, pi. xxxviii. fig. 3, <$ ; Watson, Hesp. Ind. p. 128 (1891). 



Judging from the male genitalia it seems probable that there is but one species of 

 this genus with the fringe of the hind wing grey-brown, the white band on fore wing- 

 above not cut short by vein 2, and having a dark sub-basal and median band, but no 

 white spot on the hind wing below. The oldest name given to an insect falling within 

 this definition is that of feisthamelii, Bdv. The presence or absence of small white 

 spots on the fore wing, an opaque white patch on the fore wing below continuing the 

 white band to the costa, or a white dash in each of cells 9 and 10 on the fore wing 

 below between the hyaline spot in cell 8 and the costa, are particulars not sufficiently 

 constant to be of any use as specific characters. The form albifascia, Moore, which we 

 have from Java and Pulo Laut, a comparatively small insect with no white markings 

 except the rather narrow band on the fore wing above, is very different in appearance 



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