CAPILA. 25 



Not in collection Indian Museum, and Mr. de Niceville informs me 

 he has never seen it. 



GENUS XI. CAPILA. 



Capita, Moore, P. Z. S., 1865, p. 785. 



" Palpi large, porrect, projecting beyond the head, densely pilose ; 

 third joint conical half the length of the second. Antennae extending 

 to half the length of forewing. Body moderately stout. Abdomen 

 extending to near anal angle. Legs slender ; femora slightly pilose 

 beneath ; hind tibiae with a dense tuft of very long hairs at the side ; 

 mid tibiae with a pair, and hind tibiae with two pairs, of apical spurs. 



Wings large, broad. Male. Costa, nearly straight ; apex acute ; 

 exterior margin very oblique ; posterior margin abbreviated, half the 

 length of the costa. Hindwing with the apex angled ; exterior margin 

 convex, with slight angle in the middle. Female larger. Costa slightly 

 arched ; exterior margin oblique ; posterior margin two-thirds the length 

 of the costa. Hindwing nearly quadrate, the exterior margin being 

 produced to an abrupt angle in the middle." (Moore, I. c.) 



28. CAPILA JAYADEVA, MOORE. 



Isme-ne jayadeva, Moore, Cat. Lep. E. I. C., vol. i, p. 248. 



Capita jayadeva, Moore, P. Z. S., 1865, P- 7^5* pi- xm *> fig- 3- 



" Male and female brown. Upperside base of wings clothed with 

 orange-yellow hairs ; both wings with a narrow longitudinal semitrans- 

 parent streak between the veins, the discoidal cell having two streaks, 

 and a third but short streak arising from the extremity. Thorax, head, 

 and palpi, orange-yellow. Abdomen brown, with narrow white segmental 

 bands ; third joint of palpi and a few surrounding hairs and a spot on 

 forehead brown. Underside paler brown, the semitransparent streaks 

 being less prominent. Body and legs brown. 



Female similar, but with the thorax and base of wings brown. 



Expanse *D 2f, 9 3 inches. 



Hab. Darjeeling." (Moore, P. Z. S., I. c.) 



Also recorded from Sikkim by Mr. Elwes who notes that the female 

 is without the orange on the thorax and base of wings, and has much 

 broader, rounder wings than the male. 



One female recorded from Margherita, Assam, by Mr. Doherty. 



With reference to this species Mr. A. V. Knyvett writes as follows : 



" I flushed Capila jayadeva 9 off the underside of a leaf in a damp 

 shady spot full of undergrowth. She flitted about like a Plesioneura for some 

 time, and then settled on the underside of a broad leaf, with wings 

 outspread. It was an impossible sort of a place to use a net on and I 

 missed, with the result that she flew a short way and again settled in 

 the same way and gave me as easy a chance of taking her as I could have. 



