596 AGARISTID^. 



Sect. I. Fore wing of male with a well-developed groove of ribbed hyaline 

 membrane below costa beyond middle, a clicking sound being pro- 

 duced during flight probably by friction with the tarsal spines ; the 

 veins strongly downcurved. 



117. iEgocera tripartita. 



^ocera tripartita, Kirby, Proc. R. Dublin Soc. (2) ii. p. 340 (1880) ; 

 Waterh. Aid, i. pi. 39 ;'Hmpsn. Moths lud. ii. p. 158. 



S • Head and thorax white ; the palpi except in front, extremity 

 of irons, antenna3, and some scales on vertex of head black; tegulae 

 with black stripes ; edges of patagia and subdorsal stripes on thorax 

 black and orange ; tibiae orange, banded with black ; tarsi black, 

 ringed with white ; abdomen orange, with dorsal series of black 

 spots, the ventral surface whitish. Fore wing deep red, thickly 

 irrorated with ochreous ; a wedge-shaped yellowish-white fascia on 

 median nervure from base to middle of cell ; a somewhat elliptical 



Fig. 260. — JEgoccra tripartita, (^ . \ 



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spot in end of cell extending to just below it, and a triangular spot 

 beyond the cell ; these markings separated by clear red patches 

 with bluish silvery bars on them, the medial bar joining a silvery 

 spot on a triangular red patch below the cell ; cilia whitish at tips. 

 Hind wing orange, the costal area broadly red-brown conjoined to a 

 discoidal lunule ; the inner area brown ; a broad terminal brown 

 band narrowing somewhat at middle ; cilia whitish. 



5 . Hind wing with the markings black. 



Hah. Burma, Myingyan, Thayetmyo {Watson). G d , 2 $. 

 Exp., d 36, ? 38 millim. 



Sect. II. {Mgoctra). Fore wing of male with slight traces of a groove below 

 costa beyond middle, the veins slightly curved downwards. 



A. Fore wing with the wedge-shaped part of fascia beyond the 



cell extending almost to termen rectilinea. 



B. Fore wing with the wedge-shaped part of fascia beyond the 



cell ending well before termen venulia. 



C. Fore wing with oblique transverse lunulate band beyond the 



cell h imacula . 



118. .ffigocera rectilinea. 



, Boisd. Spec. Gen. Lep. i. pi 

 Ins. p. 498, pi. 84 bis f. 2 ; Kir 



d . Head and thorax white ; palpi at side of 2nd joint and 



Mgocera rectilinea, Boisd. Spec. Gen. Lep. i. pi. 14. f. 5 (1836) ; Guer. 

 Icon. R. Anim., Ins. p. 498, pi. 84 bis f. 2 ; Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 37. 



