1867.] MR. F. MOORE ON BENGALESE LEPIDOPTERA, 49 



Tympanistes pallida, n. sp. (PI. A'^I. fig. 1.) 



Male and female semitranspareut, glossy : fore wing pale dull 

 yellow, with three or four transverse indistinct dusky luuulated 

 lines and a discal dot, and a marginal row of brown dots : hind 

 wing pale white, with a more or less visible row of marginal dots. 

 Head and thorax dull greenish. Antennae testaceous. Abdomen 

 and legs pale testaceous above, white beneath. Underside pale silky 

 white. 



Expanse 1| inch. 



Diirjeeliug. In Coll. W. S, Atkinson, Esq. ; F. Moore. 



Note. — "This species makes a clicking noise as it flies. It has 

 a drum-apparatus underneath." — TV. S. Atkinson, Darjeeling, Aug. 

 18G2. 



T. TESTACEA, n. sp. (PL VI. fig. 2.) 



Male and female testaceous, paler beneath : fore wing varied with 

 suffused patches of green and pinkish testaceous, and with numerous 

 delicate short transverse strife ; two irregular transverse indistinct 

 dusky streaks, between which is a black discal spot ; a submargiual 

 zigzag dusky line, and a marginal row of black dots : hind wing and 

 abdomen pinkish testaceous ; cilia pinkish white. Head green. 

 Thorax greenish testaceous. 



Expanse I^ inch. 



Darjeeling. In Coll. W. S. x\tkinson ; F.Moore. 



Genus Auchmis, Hiibn. 



AUCHMIS SIKKIMENSIS, n, Sp. (PI. VI. fig. 15.) 



Brownish fawn-colour : fore wing purplish along the costa, silvery 

 grey beneath the costa ; a black line from middle of the base inter- 

 ruptedly ascending to, and bordering the lower half of, a reniform 

 stigma, and thence ascending in broken dashes to beneath the apex, 

 the space beneath which from the base is dark greenish brown ; ob- 

 liquely on the exterior margin are three or four ascendingly decreasing 

 dark-bordered silvery-grey lanceolate marks ; a blackish streak along 

 middle of posterior margin ; a transverse series of indistinct black 

 discal spots : hind wing pale, with broad brown marginal border. 

 Thorax purplish fawn-colour, with brown-bordered black stripes. 

 Abdomen greyish brown. 



Expanse 1|^ inch. 



Darjeeling. In Coll. A, E. Russell. 



Remark. — Closely allied to A. perspicillaris of Europe. 



Genus Hermonassa, Walk. 



Hermonassa consignata. Walk. Cat. Lep. Het. B. M. xxxii. 

 Suppl. ii. p. G32. 



Darjeeling {W. S. Atkinson). 

 pROf. ZooL. Soc— 1867, No. IV. 



