PISOLA.— ACHALAKUS. 559 
Genus PISOLA. 
Pisola, INIoore, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. 18G3, p. 785 ; Watson, Proc. Zool. Soc. Loud. 
1893, p. 31. 
" Palpi large, erect, projecting be5'ond the head, densely pilose ; third joint minute, conical. 
Antennse rather long, curved backward at the apex. Body very stout ; abdomen extending 
to within one third of the length of the hind wing. Legs moderately slender ; femora pilose 
beneath ; mid tibiie 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." 
{Moorc, 1. c.) 
Pisola zennara. 
Pisola zmiiara, ^loore, Proc. Zool. Soc. Loud. 18G5, p. 786, pi. xlii. fig. 4. 
'■'■ Male and female. Uppersido brown; fore wing with a broad yellowish-white semitransparent 
irregular margined discal band obliquely from middle of eosta 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 duU orange-yellow. Body and 
legs brown. Cilia brown. 
"Expanse, S 2|-, 5 3^ inches. N.E. Bengal." {Moore, I.e.) 
Mr. Grose Smith has one female example of this species from Omei-shan, 
Western China. 
Elwes (Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. 1888, p. 442) states that P. zennara is rare 
in Sikldm, 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. Kcv. Am. Butt. p. 50 (1872). Type, lycidus, Smith-Abb. 
Achalarus, Scudder, Butt. East. Un. States, vol. ii. p. 1412 (1889) ; Watson, Proc. Zool. 
Soc. Lond. 1893, p. 33. 
Lobocla, Moore, Journ. Asiat. Soc. Beng. vol. liii. pt. 2, p. 51 (1884). Type, Uliana, 
Atkinson. 
" Antenuse: club moderate, bent into a hook, the terminal portion about as long as rest of club. 
Palpi porrcct, 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 ceU ; vein 2 
4e 2 
