. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British Museum. British Museum (Natural History). Dept. of Zoology; Moths; Lepidoptera. 596 AGAKISTIDJE. 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. -ffigocera tripartita. JEgocera tripartita, Kirby, Proc. R. Dublin Soc. (2) ii. p. 340 (1880) ;. Waterh. Aid, i. pi. 39 ; Hmpsn. Moths Ind. ii. p. 158. (S. Head and thorax white; the palpi except in front, ext
. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British Museum. British Museum (Natural History). Dept. of Zoology; Moths; Lepidoptera. 596 AGAKISTIDJE. 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. -ffigocera tripartita. JEgocera tripartita, Kirby, Proc. R. Dublin Soc. (2) ii. p. 340 (1880) ;. Waterh. Aid, i. pi. 39 ; Hmpsn. Moths Ind. ii. p. 158. (S. Head and thorax white; the palpi except in front, extremity of frons, antennae, 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. Pore 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.—JEgocera tripartita, (^. \. 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. BuEMA, Myingyan, Thaj'-etmj^o (Watson), 6 cJ, 2 $. Ex2y., 6 36, $ 38 millim. Sect. II. {Mgocera). 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 Tectilinea. B. Fore wing with the wedge-shaped part of fascia beyond the cell ending
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