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formed by greyish-white hairs. Underside coloured as above. Forewing with the 

 band as above, the hinder marginal space narrowly pale. Hindwing with the linear 

 marks of the upperside faintly indicated ; palpi ochreous ; body above and beneath 

 concolorous with the wings, abdomen with pale lateral spots. 



Expanse of wings, $ ^-^-q, ? 3 inches. 



Habitat. — Sikkim, Assam, Burma. 



Distribution. — The type male came from Darjiling. Moore's type female is a 

 male of Plsola zennara, Moore. We have it from Sikkim, and have received many 

 examples of both sexes from the Khasia Hills. Elwes records it from Margharita 

 in Upper Assam and from the Naga Hills. 



CHINESE ALLIED SPECIES. 

 Capita Tiainana, Crowley, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1900, p. 510. Habitat, Hainan. 



Genus PISOLA. 



Pisola, Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1865, p. 785. Watson, Hesp. Ind. p. 26 (1891) ; id. Proc. Zool. Soc. 

 1893, p. 31. de Niceville, Journ. Bo. Nat. Hist. Soc. vii. 1893, p. 347. Leech, Butt, of China, 

 etc. ii. p. 559 (1894). Watson, Journ. Bo. Nat. Hist. Soc. ix. 1895, p. 419. 



Capita, Elwes (part), Trans. Zool. Soc. 1897, p. 106. 



Venation similar to that of the genus Capita, but the discoidal cell in the 

 forewinof is somewhat shorter, and in the hindwins; it is somewhat longer than in 

 that genus, and the origin of vein 3 in the forewing is nearer the cell end ; the 

 structure of the legs is also similar ; the contour of the wings is, however, very 

 different, and is very similar in both sexes ; the costa of the forewing is highly 

 arched, in Capita it is nearly straight, the hinder margin is much longer, only about 

 one-fifth shorter than the costa, and much longer than the outer margin, which is much 

 more convex, making the wing very much broader, and in the hindwing the apex and 

 also the outer margin below vein 3 are somewhat produced, in Capila the outer margin 

 is evenly rounded. 



Type, Pisola zennara, Moore. 



Note. — de Niceville says : * " The neuration of the genus Pisola is apparently 

 very erratic, in one out of five Sikkim specimens in my collection the fourth sub-costal 

 nervule in the forewing is emitted after the apex of the cell, a quite abnormal feature 

 in the Hesperidse, and in one of three Sikkim females the neuration is so abnormal, 

 I have given a sketch of it in pi. J, fig. 3." 



* Journ. Bo.. Nat. Hist. Soc. 1893, p. 347. 



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