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HESPEEIID^, 



below the apex, and those of secondaries 3 ellow at outei* augle. Under surface of primaries 

 fuliginous, with the costal, apical, and inner marginal areas broadly yellowish ; spots as above 

 but, excepting the pair in discoidal cell, followed by black dots : secondaries yellowish, with 

 a black spot in each median interspace, and a third towards costa (sometimes there is a fourth 

 black spot in subcostal interspace) ; there is a fuliginous streak, increasing in width towards 

 inner margin, in submedian interspace, this is sometimes edged above with whitish. Antenna3 

 black, narrowly ringed with buff beneath ; club with the basal portion buff and the apical 

 portion brownish. 

 Expanse 31-34 millim. 



I received six specimens, all males, of this species from Western China, 

 where they Avere taken at Wa-ssu-kow, in July. 



The subapical and discoidal spots are very minute, and in some examples 

 the latter are united, forming a transverse linear spot. In one specimen, the 

 largest in the series, all the spots are unusually small, and the upper sub- 

 apical one is hardly discernible. 



Genus NOTOCRYPTA. 

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

 Plesioneura, part., auctorum. 



Notocrypta, dc Niceville, Bomb. Nat. Hist. Journ. iv. p. 188 (1889) ; Watson, Proc. Zool. 

 Soc. Lond. 1893, p. 112. 



" Differs from Celanorrhinus, Hiibncr, in the fore wing being more triangular, the middle disco- 

 cellular nci-vule being distinctly longer instead of shorter than the lower discocellular, concave 

 instead of almost straight, the middle and lower discocellular nervules taken together less 

 strongly inwardly oblique ; the hind wing is also shorter and more produced posteriorly and 

 the costa is much arched, the discoidal cell is distinctly shorter, thus causing all the veins 

 which sjjring from it (the first and second subcostal, the discoidal, and the throe median 

 nervules) to be distinctly longer. There is a marked difference in the length of the haustellum 

 or tongue, which in C. leucocera, KoUar, measures 1'8 inclies, in alijsos, Moore, only •*.) of 

 an inch, or exactlj^ half. 



" Type, the Plesioneura curvifascia of Felder." {de Niceville, I. c.) 



Notocrypta curvifascia. (Plate XXXVIII. fig. J , ^ .) 



Plesioneura curvifascia, Felder, Wicn. ent. Mon. vi. p. 29 (18(52). 

 Notocrypta curvifascia, dc Niceville, IJoinl). Nat. Hist. Joiu'ii. 1889, p. 188. 



"Alls supra fuscis, ant icis utrinrpic fascia discali curvala, introrsuni incisa punctisque hyalino- 

 albis, Kubtus omnium iiujbo externo posticarumque diniidio basali lilascenti-cano alomalis. J. 



" Ning-po. — Sat affinis P. feisfhainelH, Boisd,, vulgari speeiei Indium et insulas Arcliipclagi Malayici 

 incolorili et forte fiub.s])(;ci<-s ejus gcograpliica. Abe longiorcs sunt et fascia alarum anticarum 

 angUHtior, infra ramuni midiamini )irinium jirofundc incisa idecxpic curvata." (Ffhlcr, I.e.) 



'I'his species can Ix- readily separated Irom N. fcistliaincli by the three, 



