PISOLA. — ACIIALAKUS. 



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Genus PISOLA. 



Pisola, Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. 1805, p. 785 ; Watson, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. 

 1893, p. 31. 



"Palpi large, erect, projecting beyond the licad, densely pilose; tliird joint minute, conical. 

 Antennae rather long, curved backward at the apex. Body very stout ; abdomen extending 

 to within ono tliird of the length of the hind wing. Legs moderately slender ; femora pilose 

 beneath ; mid tibi;o armed with a pair, and hind tibiae with two pairs, of slender apical spurs. 

 Wings large, broad ; costa of fore wing slightly arched ; exterior margin oblique ; posterior 

 margin straight. Hind wing convex at the base of anterior margin; apex, exterior margin, 

 and anal angle convex. Subcostal vein of fore wing six-branched ; second and third arising 

 at equal distances from the first ; fourth to sixth contiguous at their base to the third." 

 {Moore, I. c.) 



Pisola zennara. 



Pisola zennara, Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc. Loud. 18G5, p. 786, pi. xlii. fig. 4. 



" JIale and female. TJpperside bi'own ; fore wing with a broad yellowish-white semitransparent 

 irregular margined discal band obliquely from middle of costa to posterior angle ; hind wing, 

 in the male, exteriorly with two greyish longitudinal streaks between each vein, these being 

 absent in the female. Abdomen with pale greyish anal tuft. Underside uniform brown, 

 with oblique discal band as above. Front of head and palpi dull orange-yellow. Body and 

 legs brown. Cilia brown. 



"Expanse, d 2^, 5 Scinches. N.E.Bengal." (Moore, I c.) 



Mr. Grose Smith has one female example of this species from Omei-shan, 

 Western China. 



Elwes (Trans. Eut. Soc. Lond. 1888, p. 442) states that P. zennara is rare 

 in Sikkim, and occurs between April and August in low valleys. He adds, 

 "the antennae of the female are much less hooked than those of the male." 



Genus ACHALARUS. 



Achalarus, Scudder, Syst. Rev. Am. Butt. p. 50 (1872). Type, hjcidus, Smith-Abb. 

 Achalariis, Sciulder, Butt. East. Uu. States, vol. ii. p. 1412 (1889) ; Watson, Proc. Zool. 



Soc. Loud. 1893, p. 33. 

 Loboda, Moore, Jouru. Asiat. Soc. Beug, vol. liii. pt. 2, p. 51 (1884). Type, Uliana, 



Atkiuson. 



" Antennae : club moderate, bent into a hook, the terminal portion about as long as rest of club. 

 Palpi porrect, second joint densely scaled, third joint short. Fore wing: inner and outer 

 margins subequal ; vein 12 reaching costa before end of cell; male with a costal fold; cell 

 long, more than two thirds length of costa ; upper discocellular minute, middle and lower 

 discocellulars inwardly oblique in the same straight line, the lower the longer ; veinlet at 

 vein 4 ; vein 3 more than four times as far from base of wing as from end of cell ; vein 2 



4e 2 



