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flight probably by friction with the tarsal spines ; the veins strongly down- 

 curved. 



1577. Aegocera tripartita. 



Sect. IT. Forewing of male with slight traces of a groove below costa beyond 

 middle, the veins slightly curved downwards. 



A. Forewing with wedge shaped fascia beyond the 



cell 1578 venulia. 



B. Forewing with oblique transverse luaulate band beyond 



the cell 1579 bimacula. 



1578. Aegocera venulia. 



Larva 1". Head smooth glabrous red ; body yellow-green irrorated with 

 black ; a lateral black stripe with an interrupted pale yellow crenulate line above 

 it ; the dorsal area with delicate transverse black stria? and with black suffusion 

 on alternate somites ; the penultimate somite with four red tubercles on dorsal 

 area and smaller lateral tubercles ; a few short light colored hairs on sides ; 

 prolegs red (W. H. Campbell). 



Genus Mimeusemia. 



A. Abdomen orange with black dorsal patch at base. 



a. Hindwing with the cilia white-tipped 1584. albicilia, 



b. Hindwing with the cilia not white-tipped except 



at apex 1583. cey'onica. 



B. Abdomen banded black and orange. 



a. Abdomen with the two basal segments band- 



ed with orange 1582. peshva. 



b. Abdomen with the two basal segments black. 

 a 1 . Abdomen with black bands on medial 



segments ; hindwing with orange patch 

 on base of inner area usually present ...1581. basalts. 

 b'. Abdomen without black bands on medial 

 segments ; hindwing with creamy patch 

 below the tell .., 1581. a. davidsoni. 



C. Abdomen blackish with the anal tuft orange .. ...1580. accurata. 



Genns Ophthalmis. 



Type. 

 Ophthalmis, Hiibn. Verz., p. li!t*> (1827) lincea. 



Pristocerica, Karsch. Ent. Nachr xxi, p. 349 (1895) eriojns. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi upturned, the 2nd joint roughly scaled in 

 front, the 3rd long, naked, and somewhat porrect ; frons with rounded 

 prominence; antennas almost simple, slightly dilated towards extremity; 

 pectus and tibia? nearly smoothly scaled ; abdomen with slight dorsal ridges 

 of hair or smoothly scaled, the claspers of male large, protrusible lateral tufts 

 of long hair from base. Forewing with veins 3'4 from angle of cell ; 5 from 

 above angle ; 6 from upper angle ; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form the 

 areole ; 11 from cell. Hindwing with vein 2 from well before angle of 



