OETHOCRASPIS. — TTMPASISTES. 587 



Hob. IjHtJXAN, 2500' {Dudgeon), 1 J type ; Andamans (Eogers), 

 1 (S . Exp. 30-34 millim. 



6997. Orthocraspis acypera. (Hate CLXXXIX. fig. 21.) 



Carea acypera, Huipsn. A. M. N. H. (7) XTi. p. 593 (1905). 



S . Head, thorax, and abdomen pale grey-brown ; palpi with the 3rd 

 joint blackish ; pectus, legs, and ventral surface of abdomen whitish. 

 Fore wing pale grey-brown sparsely irrorated and striated with 

 raised black scales ; a slightly more prominent black discoidal 

 point ; cilia white at base, brown at tips except towards tornus. 

 Hind wing greyish brown with blackish discoidal point ; cilia 

 whitish ; the underside brownish white irrorated and striated with 

 raised black scales, the black discoidal spot prominent. 



Hah. Bali (Doherttj), 1 (^ type. Exp. 30 millim. 



Genus TYMPANISTES. 



Type. 



Tyiiipanisies, Moore, P. Z. S. 1867, p. 48 pallida. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi upturned, the 2nd joint reaching to vertex 

 of head and fringed with hair in front, the iird long ; irons smooth ; eyes 

 large, round; antennaj of male almost simple; thorax clothed entiiely with 

 liair and without crests ; tibias moderately fringed with hair ; abdomen with 

 some rough hair at base, but without crests ; the male with verj' large lateral 

 fans of scales at base covering a large ventral orifice. Fore wing with the apex 

 produced and acute, the termeu obliquely curved and not crenulate; veins 3 

 and 5 from near angle of cell ; 6 from upper angle ; 9 and 10 anastomosing 

 with 8 to form a rather small areole; 11 from cell. Hind wing with veins 3, 4 

 stalked ; 5 fully developed from angle of cell ; 6^ 7 from upper angle ; 8 aniis- 

 toiuosing witii the cell near base only. 



A. Hind wing wholly pale red tesiacea. 



!B. Hind wing semihyaline white, the inner area tinged with 

 red. 



a. Fore wing pale ochreous with small discoidal annuhis ... ruhidorsalis. 



h. Fore wing ochreous yellow with a brown discoidal point flavescens. 



C. Hind wing wholly semihyaline white pallida. 



6998. Tympanistes testacea. 



Tympanhtes tesfacea, Moore, P. Z. S. 1867, p. 49, pi. 6. f. 2 ; Hmpsn. Moths 

 Ind. ii. p. 421. 



5 . Head and base of tegulae jJale j'ellow-green ; antennas 

 brownish ; thorox pale rufous with some green hair behind the 

 tegula) ; fore and mid tibise and tarsi tinged with green, the tarsi 

 ringed with white; abdomen dull crimson-red, the ventral surface 

 Avhite. Pore wing pale ochreous tinged with red and with 

 numerous brown striaB ; the base and costa suffused with pale 

 yellow-green ; some dark suffusion on inner margin near base ; an 

 indistinct diffused dark antemedial line excurvcd from costa to 



