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one-third before the end, 10 from one-sixth, upper end of cell truncate; upper 

 discocellular minute, middle and lower almost erect and in a straight line, the lower 

 the longer, veinlet within the cell beyond vein 4 ; vein 3 emitted one-third before the 

 lower end of the cell, 2 at one-third from the base ; cell three-fourths the length of 

 the costa ; costa nearly straight, a little curved before the apex, which is sub-acute, 

 outer margin slightly curved, oblique, longer than the hinder margin, making the wing 

 narrow and produced apically in the male ; broader and not produced in the female, hinder 

 angle obtuse, hinder margin nearly straight, no costal fold. Hindwing, vein 7 emitted 

 shortly before the upper end of cell, the cell reaching nearly to the middle of the wing ; 

 middle discocellular almost erect, the lower angled, its upper part inwardly oblique. 

 its lower part outwardly oblique ; vein 5 well developed ; vein 3 from a little before 

 lower end of cell, the base of 2 rather close to the base of vein 3 ; wing evenly 

 rounded. Antennae with the club slightly thicker than the shaft, very gradually 

 thickening and as gradually tapering to a fine point and evenly curved. Palpi 

 porrect, projecting beyond the head, densely pilose, third joint conical, half the 

 length of the second ; hind tibise with two pairs of spurs, and with a tuft of hairs 

 longer than the tibia attached to it near its proximal end. 

 Type, Ismene jayadeva, Moore. 



CAPILA JAYADEVA. 



Plate 755, figs. 1, ,J , la, ? , lb, ^ . 



Ismene jayadeva, Moore, Cat. Lep. Mus. E.I.C. i. p. 248 (1857). 



Capila jayadeva, Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1865, p. 785, pi. 42, fig. 3,^. Elwes, Trans. Ent. Soc. 



1888, p. 442. Doherty, Journ. As. Soc. Bengal, 1889, p. 132. Watson, Hesp. Ind. p. 25(1891). 



Elwes, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1892, p. 648. de Niceville, Journ. Bo. Nat. Hist. Soc. \-ii. 1893, p. 349. 



Watson, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1893, p. 30. Swinhoe, Trans. Ent. Soc. 1893, p. 315. de Niceville, 



Gazetteer of Sikkim, Butt. p. 176 (1894). Watson, Journ. Bo. Nat. Hist. Soc. ix. 1895, p. 422. 



Elwes, Trans. Zool. Soc. 1897, p. 107. 



Imago. — Male. Upperside dark purple-brown, nearly black, both wings with 

 semi-hyaline greyish-white even streaks running through all the interspaces, two 

 streaks in the discoidal cell, with a longitudinal semi-hyaline small spot between the 

 streaks at the cell end ; both wings with the basal fourth covered with long orange-red 

 hairs. Underside a little paler than above, dull black, markings similar ; palpi, head 

 and thorax above covered with orange-red hairs, abdomen above and beneath of the 

 colour of the wings, with white segmental bands, thorax beneath and legs blackish. 



Female. Upperside dark blackish-brown. Forewiny with a broad semi-hyaline 

 ochreous-white band, with uneven edges, from a very little beyond the middle of the 

 costa to a little above the hinder angle, the band does not quite touch the costa. 

 Ilindwing with the outer half thickly packed with pale streaks, two in each interspace, 



