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anal angle and curves upwards for a short distance. Cilia as on tlie upperside. 

 Antennse black with thin white rings ; palpi, head and body above concolorous with 

 the wings, palpi and head with some white hairs ; palpi grey beneath, body brown, 

 with some whitish hairs. 



Female like the male, but slightly paler in colour. 



Expanse of wings, $ ? 1-/^ to 1 1% inches. 



Habitat. — Sikkim, Assam, Burma. 



Distribution. — We have received many examples from the Khasia Hills, and 

 have it from Sikkim ; recorded by Moore from Darjiling ; by Elwes from the Naga 

 Hills, Karen Hills, and E. Pegu ; by Watson fi'om the Chin Hills ; by Manders from 

 the Shan States, and by Adamson from Bhamo and the Upper Chindwin in Burma. 



Genus SCOBURA. 



Scohura, Elwes and Edwards, Trans. Zool. Soc. 1897, p. 204. 

 Igma, Watson (nee Distant), Proc. Zool. Soc. 1893, p. 83. 



Foreicing, vein 12 ends on costa well before the end of the cell ; cell less than 

 two-thirds the length of the costa ; discocellulars sub-erect, the lower slightly shorter 

 than the middle, vein 5 from a little below the middle, vein 3 emitted close to lower 

 end of cell, two from about one-third from the base ; costa evenly and gently arched, 

 apex sub-acute, outer margin convex, shorter than the hinder margin. ] lijidwhuj , 

 vein 7 emitted near the upper end of cell, discocellulars faint, strongly outwardly 

 oblique, 5 not traceable, 3 emitted quite close to lower end of cell, 2 from about 

 one-third before the end, outer margin of, the wing evenly rounded; costa highly 

 arched before its middle. Antennae more than half the length of costa of forewing, 

 club slender, long, a short terminal pointed crook ; palpi porrect, third joint slender, 

 almost concealed, bluntly conical ; hind tibiae naked, with two pairs of spurs. 



Type, Hesperia cephala, Hewitson. 



SCOBURA CEPHALA. 



Plate 799, figs. 3, <J , 3a, 9 , 3b, <? . 



Hesperia cephala, Hewitsou, Ent. Mo. Mag. 1876, p. 152 ; id. Descr. Lep. Coll. Atk. p. 4 (1879). 

 Jsotelnon cephala, Watson, Journ. Bo. Nat. Hist. Soc. 1888, p. 28. Elwes, Trans. Ent. Soc. 1888, 



p. 456, pi. 11, fig. 10, (J. Watson, Hesp. lud. p. 80 (1891). Elwes, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1892, 



p. 654. 

 Isiiia cephala, Watson, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1893, p. 84. de Niceville, Gazetteer of Sikkim, Butt. p. 180 



(1894). 

 Zoijraphsetus cephala, Watson, Journ. Bo. Xat. Hist. Soc. ix. 1895, p. 429 ; id. idem, x. 1896, p. 679. 



Adamson, Trans. N. H, Soc, Northumberland, etc. 1908, p. 143. 



