176 LEPIDOPTEBA INDICA. 



Sepa dcatrosa, Elwes and Edwards, I.e. p. 212, pi. 19, fig. 4, ^ . Habitat, Kina Balu, Borneo. 

 Sepa miosiicta, Paruara micsticta, de Niceville, Journ. Bo. Nat. Hist. Soc. 1891, p. 385, pi. G, 



fig. 31. Sepa niiosticta, Elwes and Edwards, I.e. p. 217. Habitat, Perak. 

 Sepa guttulifera, Elwes and Edwards, I.e. pi. 19, fig. 8, ^ . Habitat, Borneo. 

 Sepa cinnamomea, Elwes and Edwards, I.e. p. 213, pi. 19, fig. 25, ^ . Habitat, Kina Balu. 

 Sejm hiseriata, Elwes and Edwards, I.e. p. 213. Habitat, Philippines. 

 Si'pa ciliata, Elwes and Edwards, I.e. p. 214, pi. 19, fig. 22. Habitat, Pulo Laut. 



Genus ISMA. 



Isma, Distant, Rhop. Malayana, p. 386 (1886). 



Lophoides, "Watson, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1893, p. 84. Elwes and Edwards, Trans. Zool. Soc. 1897, p. 84. 



Forewing, vein 12 terminates on costa well before the end of the cell ; cell less 

 than two-thirds the length of the costa, discocellulars sub-erect, the lower a little the 

 shorter, vein 5 straight, emitted from a little below the middle, 3 emitted a little 

 before the lower end of cell, 2 from close to the base in the male, somewhat farther 

 inwards in the female ; costa gently arched, apex somewhat produced, outer margin 

 slightly convex, a little shorter than the hinder margin. Hlndicing, vein 7 emitted 

 well before the upper end of cell, discocellulars and vein 5 faint, 3 emitted a little 

 before the lower end of cell, 2 a little beyond the middle, outer margin evenly rounded. 

 Antennae long, club slender, elongate, with a short terminal crook ; hind tibiae naked, 

 with two pairs of spurs. 



INIale with an oval glandular patch at the base of the forewing, more conspicuous 

 on tlie underside, with a tuft of longish hairs, directed upwards, affixed to the hinder 

 margin of the forewing on the underside, with a similar tuft of laxly set hairs on the 

 upperside of the hindwing near the base of the costal margin, and with a fringe of 

 Ions hairs at the anal angle of hindwingr. 



Type, Isma obscura, Distant, from Singapore. 



The above is mostly taken from Watson's description of his genus Lophoides, 

 type iapis, de Niceville, which is congeneric with obscura, Distant, the type of 

 Distant's genus Isma. Elwes has sunk Isma to Lophoides, because Distant's description 

 of his genus is faulty ; to follow this ruling, one would have to upset nearly all the 

 genera of the old authors. 



Watson in P.Z.S. 1893, p. 83, described a genus which he called Isma, Distant, 

 giving obscura. Distant, as the type ; but as pointed out by de Niceville, in the 

 Journal of the Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc. 1895, p. 378, Watson was under the erroneous 

 impression that Ilesperia cephala, Hewitson, was congeneric with Isma obscura, 

 Distant. He had never seen obscura, and made his description from cephala, and Elwes 

 has very properly given a new generic name (^Scobura) to that species and its allies. 

 Trans. Zool. Soc. 1897, p. 204. 



