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cedipodea. Watson, in Proc. Zool. Soc. 1893, diagnoses tlie genus Ismene correctly and 

 divides the Indian species into sections ; we prefer giving the sections generic names, 

 the differences in venation and sexual characters being far greater than in many other 

 genera of the TIesperiidee and Lyccenidce ; the differences in the sex marks corresponding 

 with the differences in the positions of veins 2 and 3 of the forewing. 



Genus POLA, nov. 



Forewing with the cell slightly more than half the length of the costa, its lower 

 margin strongly curved upwards in the male in consequence of a rounded patch of 

 androeonia on the upperside of the wing ; vein 12 ends on the costa, opposite the end 

 of the cell, discocellulars erect, the upper very minute, the middle and lower of about 

 ec[ual length, vein 5 from a little below the middle, 6 from close to upper end, vein 3 

 in the male arises near the base of the wing and very close to the origin of vein 2 ; in 

 the female it is emitted a little before the lower end of the cell ; costa of wing arched, 

 especially at its basal half, apex acute, outer margin convex, very oblique, and nearly 

 as long as the hinder margin, which is more or less straight. Hindwing with the cell 

 very short, about one-third across the wing, vein 7 emitted from beyond the middle of 

 the cell, discocellulars faint, slightly outwardly oblique, vein 5 well developed, from a 

 little above the middle, 6 from close to the upper end, 3 from just before the lower end 

 of the cell ; outer margin of the wing somewhat sinuate ; hind tibiae with two pairs of 

 spurs swollen in the male, with a long tuft of hairs affixed near the proximal end on 

 the upperside, beneath which, along their outer edge, they are clothed with large 

 rounded scales. 



Type, Ismene atajyhus, Watson. 



POLA ATAPHUS. 

 Plate 746, figs. 1, ^, la, ? , lb, (J, Ic, d, lai'va, le, f, pupa. 



Ismene afaplnis, Watson, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1893, p. 126. Swinhoe, Trans. Ent. Soc. 1893, 



p. 328. tie Niceville, Gazetteer of Sikkim, Butt. p. 166 (1894). J. J. Walker, Trans. Eut. Soc 



1895, p. 473. Watson, Journ. Bo. Nat. Hist. Soc. ix. 1895, p. 437; id. x. 1896, p. 683. 



de Rhe-Philipe, id. xi. 1898, p. 699, pi. W, fig. 29, a to f (larva and pupa). Crowley, Proc. 



Zool. Soc. 1900, p. 510. Hannyngton, Journ. Bo. Nat. Hist. Soc. xx. 1910, p. 370. Elwes, 



Trans. Zool. Soc. 1897, p. 292. Eruhstorfer, Iris, 1911, p. 60. 

 Ismene oedipodia, Moore (nee Swainson), Lep. Ceylon, i. p. 158, pi. 64, figs. 2, a, b (1881) ; id. Proc. 



Zool. Soc. 1882, p. 261. Wood-Mason and de Niceville, Journ. As. Soc. Bengal, 1886, p. 377. 



Elwes, Trans. Ent. Soc. 1888, p. 440. Watson, Hesp. Ind. p. 10 (1891). Elwes, Proc. Zool. 



Soc. 1892, p. 647. 

 Ismene sef/ina, Plotz, unpublished plate No. 1150, ^ ?. 



