/' TEROPHORID.'E—A GDISTES. 34i 



Genus 1. AGDISTES. 



AntenntB very short, simple ; palpi small ; tongue well 

 developed ; abdomen long, slender, rather thickened behind ; 

 fore wings narrowly lanceolate, not cleft, the cell narrow ; 

 hind wings also long and narrow, with a ridge of scales under 

 the median nervure, not cleft ; in repose the fore and hind 

 wings are rolled together ; legs very long and thin, rot 

 tufted. 



We have but one species. 



1. A. bennettii, C'«r<. Expanse 1^ inch (28 mm.). Fore 

 and hind wings long and extremely narrow, evenly tapering 

 from the very slender base, pale grey-brown ; the fore pair 

 having a few black dots, the hind a dark line along the dorsal 

 margin ; abdomen and legs very long, thin and hair-like. 



Antennas of the male very short, simple, brown ; palpi small, 

 blunt, drooping, light brown ; head and thorax brownish- 

 drab ; abdomen thickest behind, but very slender, anal tuft 

 long, pale brown. Fore wings long and very narrow, 

 especially so at the base ; costa nearly sti-aight, slightly arched 

 toward the tqj, which is sharply angulated ; hind margin 

 nearly straight, short, very oblique ; colour dull brown, rather 

 paler from the base along the co?ta and dorsal margin ; a 

 black-brown dot lies at the junction of the subcostal and 

 median nervures, two more beyond it on the median, and a 

 faint similar cloudy spot near the costa toward the apex ; cilia 

 dull brown. Hind wings long and narrow : apex pointed ; 

 hind margin almost straight, and rather sinuous ; very pale 

 smok)^ grey-brown, the nervures a little darker; a smoky- 

 brown stripe along the dorsal margin runs to the anal angle ; 

 cilia light brown. Female similar, but the abdomen thickened 

 from near the base. The body and legs in both sexes some- 

 what resemble those of a Tipula. 



Underside wholly dull pale brown. 



Rather variable in the darker or paler shade of ground 



