158 AGABISTIDJE. 



Palpi with the 2nd joint clothed with long hair ; antennae 

 strongly dilated distally. Venation as in Zalissa, except that vein 

 5 of the hind wing is absent. 



SECT. I. Fore wing of male with the subcostal nervures distorted 

 and enclosing below the costa a large hyaline streak, the 

 membrane of which is dilated and ribbed, producing a clicking 

 sound during flight, probably by friction on the greatly- 

 developed spines of the mid tarsus. 



1577. JEgocera tripartita, Kirbij, Proc. Hoy. Dubl Soc. ii, 1880, 

 p. 340 ; Waterh. Aid, i, pi. 39 ; C. $ S. no. 347. 



Palpi black, fringed with white ; head white ; thorax red-brown, 

 the collar and tegula3 marked with white ; abdomen yellow, with 

 a black spot on the vertex of each segment. Pore wing red-brown, 

 thickly irrorated with grey scales ; a broad longitudinal streak 

 from the base broken into three spots. Hind wing yellow, with 

 a black spot at the end of cell and a red-brown irregular outer 

 margin ; cilia whitish. 



Hob. Plains of Burma. Exp. 37 millim. 



SECT. II. Fore wing of male without the costal vesicle. 



378. JEgocera venulia, Cram. Pap. Exot. ii, pi. 165 D ; C. fy S. 

 no. 348. 



Fore wing with the longitudinal white streak entire, and with 



Fig. 103. Mgocera venulia, <$ . \. 



an indenture on its upper edge and a small black spot near its 

 lower edge ; a red marginal line ; cilia of both wings white. 



Hob. The sub-Himalayan tracts of Kashmir and Sikhim, and 

 plains of India, Ceylon, and Burma. Exp. 33 millim. 



1579. -ffigocera Mniacula, Wlk. Cat. i, p. 57; Butl. Ill Het. i, pi. 5, 

 fig. 4; a4-j9.no.B4B. 



Fore wing not so much irrorated with grey ; a yellowish-white 

 streak from the base expanding into a large spot in the cell and 

 interspace below, and connected by a bar with a medial band from 

 below the costa to the interno-median interspace (in Ceylon and 

 S.-Indian specimens these spots are generally disconnected); a 



