268 LEPIDOPTEBA INDICA. 



PISOLA ZENNARA. 



Plate 755, figs. 2, ^ , 2a, ? , 2b, ^ . 



Pisola zennara, Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1865, p. 786, pi. 42, fig. 4, ^ (Capila jayadeva 9 ex 

 errore). Watson, Hesp. Ind. p. 26 (1891). Elwes, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1892, p. 648. de Niceville, 

 Joum. Bo. Nat. Hist. Soc. vii. 1893, p. 349. Watson, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1893, p. 31 ; id. Journ. 

 Bo. Nat. Hist. Soc. ix. 1895, p. 422. Leech, Butt, of China, etc. ii. p. 559 (1894). de Niceville, 

 Gazetteer of Sikkim, Butt. p. 176 (1894). 



Pizzola (sic) zennara, Elwes, Trans. Ent. Soc. 1888, p. 442. 



Capila zennara, Elwes, Trans. Zool. Soc. 1897, p. 107. Eruhstorfer, Iris, 1910, p. 60. 



Imago. — Male. Upperside, both wings similar in colour and in the disposition of 

 the semi-hyaline streaks to the male of Capila jayadeva, but the thorax and base 

 of the wings are covered with hairs concolorous with the wings, not orange-red, as in 

 jayadeva ; on the hindwing these hairs cover quite the basal third of the wing. 

 Underside, both wings as above, the ground colour somewhat duller and paler ; palpi 

 covered with orange-red hairs ; head, body above and below and legs concolorous with 

 the wings, a])domen with white segmental bands. 



Female. Upperside dark brown. Foreicing with the broad, semi-hyaline band 

 much as in the female of Capila jayadeva, but usually the band expands a little at 

 its costal end, whereas in jayadeva that is its narrowest portion. Hindwing dark 

 brown, without any markings. Underside similar to the upperside, the ground colour 

 of the wings duller and paler. 



Expanse of wings, ^ ? 3x% inches. 



Habitat. — Sikki m. 



Described from a pair in our collection from Sikkim ; there has been much 

 confusion about this species, because Moore mixed them up when describing this and 

 Capila jayadeva, describing the male of zennara as the female oi jayadeva ; de Niceville 

 put the matter right in 1893. Elwes records zennara from the Naga and Karen 

 Hills, Friihstorfer from Tenasserim, and Leech from W. China, but we doubt their 

 identification. 



Genus CROSSIURA. 



Crossiura, de Niceville, Journ. Bo. Nat. Hist. Soc. vii. 1893, p. 350. Watson, id. ix. 1895, 

 p. 419. Elwes, Trans. Zool. Soc. 1897, p. 107. 



Forewing, vein 12 terminates on the costa beyond the end of the cell, 11 emitted 

 less than one-third before the upper end, 8 a little before the end and continued to 

 the apex of the wing, 10 and 9 between them, all their bases being at about equal 

 distances apart, upper discocellular strongly outwardly oblique, middle discocellular 

 upright, short, in a straight line with the lower, which is twice as long, 6 from upper 

 end of middle discocellular, 5 from the upper end of the lower, 3 from one-fifth 



