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notocrypta 
317. Notocrypta waigensis Ploetz. (Waigion). 
Prulistorfer has examined many of the forms of Notocryiitay and considers they are not all geo- 
graiDhical races of feistliameli. The Aiisti’aliau race he i^laces as a subspecies of waigensis Ploetz, and 
mentions other subspecies in Waigion, Key Is., Am Is., German Now Guinea, and the Bismarck Archi- 
loelag’o. 
317a. N. waigensis leucogaster Staudiuger. Fig. 736. 
Iris 1889, p. 155. 
cT. Above. Forowing black: a bi*oad band from costa at half to vein la at about fourlifths, white 
hyaline: a subapical dot in area 7, and often a niiuuto subapical dot in area 8, white, hyaliuo: a 
subtorminal dot in area 4, and sometimes a pair of minute dots in areas 5 and (>, completing a curved 
series of five iri*egular subapical dots, white, hyaline: somotimos an extra dot in area 3, midway 
between band and subterniinal dot in area 4, white, hyalino; cilia black. Hindwiiig black: cilia black. 
Bexeatk. ForeAving black; band and dots as above. IlindAving dull black. 
$. Above and Bexeatii as in male: forewing longer. 
Log. Cape York 14 5. Prince of Wales Is. 5 6. Banks Is. 2 3. Darnley Is. 4. Claudio R. 1 2 3. 
Cairns 2 5 G 11. Kuranda 2345789 10 11. riigham 4 5. 35^^ 27$. 
Quite unlike any other Australian Hesperid; the margins of the broad white band of forewin" 
are irregular, and its Avidth is someAvliat variable but usually^ broadest at the centre. ° 
Subfamily ISMENINAE. 
lirAGO. Of moderately large size and very robust build. When in a state of complete repose, the 
butterflies rest Avith their Aviiigs erect and the upi:)er surfaces pressed closely together. Antennae short 
with club gradual and hooked, and A\Ith apiculus long and tapering to a point. Palj^i Avith third joint 
long, slendor and poiTect. Eyes dark brown or black. Forewing Avitli vein 5 arising from cell equi¬ 
distant betAveen vein 4 and vein G, or slightly nearer to vein G: base of Aviiig clothed" Avitli long hairs. 
IlindAving (in Australian sjmcies) Avith A’ein 5 present and tubular: termen produced at vein la: base 
and dorsum clolhod Avitii long hairs, more dense towards tornus. jNFales Avitli or Avithout a diseal sex- 
mark on forewing above. Hind tibiae densely fringed in both sexes. (Fig, AR). 
Fig. AR. Venation of Hasoro. discolor. 
Head of 1. Z/tuZar»ia cxclamationis. 
2. Parala contempta. 3. Ilasora discolor. 
(enlarged). 
lliis 111 0111 - opinion forms a natural subfamily of eipial value with the Ilesperinae. The iireseiu'e 
of veil! 5 of liiiidwmg separates it from the Tmpezitinae and the Knjnuinae, and the peculiar palpi 
]irovide an im|)orlaut eliaraetcr which, together with (he attitude when at rest, distinguish it at once 
from tile Ilesperinae. A few American genera have somc*^vhal similar jialpi, hut these have quite 
difterent antennae. ^ 
The species of this subfamily are to bo found throughout the Iiido-Australian Region, and one genus 
extends as far as Africa. 
