TYMPANISTES—-ACACHMENA, 
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7001. Tympanistes pallida. 
Tympanistes pallida, Moore, P. Z. 8. 1867, p. 49, pl. 6. f. 1; Hmpsn. Moths 
Ind. ii. p. 421. 
Head and thorax ochreous tinged with greyish ; pectus white ; 
legs ochreous ; abdomen white dorsally tinged with ochreous brown. 
Fore wing white tinged and irrorated with ochreous brown; an 
indistinct sinuous brownish antemedial line; a brown point in end 
of cell and slight discoidal spot ; postmedial line brownish, oblique 
to vein 6, then slightly waved, incurved at discal fold and below 
Fig. 232.—Tympanistes pallida, 3. } 
vein 4; a somewhat maculate brownish subterminal line excurved 
below vein 7 and at middle; a terminal series of brown points. 
Hind wing semihyaline white with a terminal series of slight 
brown points in the interspaces from apex to vein 2. 
Hab. Sr«urm (Lidderdale, Moller), 5 $,3 2 type. Eup. 44-52 
millim. 
Genus ACACHMENA. 
Type. 
Acachmena, Turner, Tr. R. Soc. 8. Austr. xxxii. p. 62 (1908) .... @nocrossa. 
Probescis fully developed ; palpi upturned, short; the 2nd joint broadly 
angled with scales in front, the 38rd short; frons smooth; antennz of female 
ciliated ; head and thorax clothed with scales, the metathorax with ridge-like 
crest; tibiz smoothly sealed; abdomen with dorsal crests on two basal 
segments. Fore wing with the apex acute, the termen obliquely curved; veins 
3 and 5 from near angle of cell; 6 from upper angle; 9 from 10 anastomosing 
with 8 to form the areole; 11 from cell. Hind wing with veins 3, 4 from 
angle of cell ; 5 from just above angle ; 6, 7 from upper angle; 8 anastomosing 
with the cell near base only, 
*7002. Acachmena cenocrossa. 
Acachmena enocrossa, Turner, Tr. R. Soc. S. Austr. xxxii. p. 62 (1908). 
2. Head and thorax whitish tinged with red; antenne slightly 
ringed with black ; metathoracic crest tipped with deep red ; pectus 
white; abdomen white slightly irrorated with fuscous, the crests 
red. Fore wing brownish white tinged with red and irrorated with 
fuscous, the costal edge red, the inner margin reddish ; traces of a 
