Capilla jayadeva, the striped dawnfly,[2] is a species of hesperid butterfly found in tropical Asia.

One female recorded from Margherita, Assam, by Mr. Doherty.The type locality is Darjeeling.

Female similar, but with the thorax and base of wings brown.He also stated:[4] With reference to this species Mr. A. V. Knyvett writes as follows: "I flushed Capila jayadeva female off the underside of a leaf in a damp shady spot full of undergrowth.

She flitted about like a Plesioneura for some time, and then settled on the underside of a broad leaf, with wings outspread.

It was an impossible sort of a place to use a net on and I missed, with the result that she flew a short way and again settled in the same way and gave me as easy a chance of taking her as I could have wished for.