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Antennae of the male deeply pectinated, of the female mode- 

 rately pectinated. Abdomen not extending so far as the hind wings. 

 Legs slender; hind tibiae without spurs. Wings semihyaline. Fore 

 wings with four superior and four inferior veins ; second superior 

 vein trifurcate; first and second inferior veins united for some space 

 from the discal areolet. 



1. Chelura bifasciata. 



Nigra; abdomen apice testaceum ; alee cinereo-hyalince, apice 

 obscurioreSy basi nigrce; anticce fasciis duabus fulvis nigro 

 cinctis. 



Chelura bifasciata, Hope, Trans. Linn. Soc. Lond. xviii. 444. 



" Straminea ; caput nigrum; antennce concolores ; thorax tuber cu- 

 latus, glaber, nitidus ; abdomen annulis septem primis obscure 

 atris, octano rubro-piceo, cauda concolori ; corpus subtus 

 nigrum, nitidum, segmentis ultimis abdominis for cipe hamoque 

 aurantiis ; alee pallide flavce, anticce fasciis binis aurantiis 

 insignitis notatce fasciisque nigris utrinque positis ; pedes 

 picei." 



Assam. 



a — d. Nepaul. Presented by Major-General Hardwicke. 



Genus 58. AGALOPE. 



Mas et Fcem. Corpus gracile, sublineare, longiusculum. Caput 

 antice convexum. Palpi brevissimi, capitis dimidio non longiores ; 

 articulus 3us minimus. Antennae filiformes, maris sat late pecti- 

 natae, fcemince subserratse. Pedes gracillimi ; tibiae posticaa calcari- 

 'bus duobus apicalibus minimis. Alae anticae latae, costa convexa, 

 margine apicali obliqua, angulo postico rotundato, venis la et 2a 

 iinferioribus basi conjunctis, 3a arcuata ; alae posticae latissimae. 



Male and Female. Body slender, nearly linear, rather long. 

 Head convex in front. Palpi very short, not more than half the 

 length of the head ; third joint very small. Antennae filiform, 

 rather deeply pectinated in the male, serrated or minutely pectinated 

 in the female. Legs very slender ; hind tibiae with two very minute 

 apical spurs. Fore wings broad, convex in front, oblique along the 



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