NOTOCRTPTA. 



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sometimes four, subapical spots on the under surfticc of primaries, whicli are 

 connected with the costa by two pale dashes. It seems to be a fairly constant 

 species, the only variation noticeable being the curvature of fascia, and the 

 occasional absence of one or two of the outer white dots on primaries. 



I met with it commonly in May in a small ravine close to the sea near the 

 port for Kumamoto, in Kiushiu. I also took it at Ningpo and Foochau, in 

 April, and have received it from Chow-pin-sa, Wa-shan, and Chia-ting-fu, in 

 Western China. Felder's type was from Ningpo. 



Notocrypta restricta. (Plate XXXVIII. fig. 3, c? .) 



Plesioneura restricta, Moore, Lep. Ceyl. i. p. 178 (1881) ; Wood-]SIasou & de Niceville, 



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

 Notocrypta restricta, de Niceville, Bomb. Nat. Hist. Journ. 1889, p. 189. 



" Allied to P. alysos : fore wing with similar transparent medial band, subapical spots, and also 

 with a small linear spot between upper and middle median veins. Underside as above, witli 

 the band stopping at the subcostal vein in both sexes — not being continued in a white streak 

 to the costal margin as in alysos." {Moore, I. c.) 



Occurs at Chang-yang, Central China ; Omei-shan, Western China ; Pryer 

 took it in the Loochoo Islands. 



The Chinese specimens agree very well with Sikkim examples, but are 

 usually rather larger. 



Distribution. India, Burmah, the Andamans, Cachar, Ceylon, Central and 

 Western China, Loochoo Islands. 



Notocrypta feisthameli. (Plate XXXVIII. fig. 2, var.) 



Thymele feisthamelii, Boisduval, Voy. Astr., Lep. p. 159, pi. ii. fig. 7 (183.2). 

 Plesioneura alysos, Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. 18G5, p. 789 ; Lep. Ceyl. i. p. 178, 



pi. Ixvii. figs. 3 cJ, 3 a ? , 3 Z( larv. & pup. (1881) ; Distant, Rhop. Malay, p. 399, 



pi. xxxiv. fig. 7, J (1886). 

 Notocrypta alysos, de Niceville, Bomb. Nat. Hist. Journ. 1889, p. 189. 



" tJpperside -dark vinous brown. Male : fore wing with a semitransparcnt, oblifjue, transverse, 

 irregular-shaped medial band, with either one or two very small oblique subapical spots, 

 and a lower spot between the upper median and radial. Female : fore wing with broader 

 medial band, three subapical spots, the spot between upper median and radial, and sometimes 

 another between the upper and middle medians. Palpi and thorax beneath olive-brown. 

 Antennae with a white streak near apex. Underside paler : fore wing with medial band and 

 subapical spots as above, and with a white costal streak above the band : bind wing fasciated 

 transversely with grey scales. 



