TYMPAXISTES — ACACHMENA. 589 



7001. Tympanistes pallida. 



Tympanistes pallida, Moore, P. Z. S. 1867, p. 49, pi. 6. f. 1 ; Huipsn. Moths 

 Ind. ii. p. 421. 



Head and thorax ochreous tinged with greyish ; pectus white ; 

 legs ochreous ; abdomen white dorsallj^ tinged with ochreous brown. 

 Pore 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. — Tym2odnti.ies 2'>aUida, (^. \. 



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. 



Hah. SiKHiM (LidcUrdale, Moller), 5 c? , 3 5 type. E.rp. 44-52 

 millim. 



Genus ACACHMENA. 



Type. 

 Acachneiia, Turner, Tr. E. Soc. S. Austr. xxxii. p. 62 (1908) ... cenocrossa. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi upturned, short ; the 2nd joint broadly 

 angled with scales in front, the 3rd short ; frons smooth ; antennsB of female 

 ciliated ; head and thoi-ax clothed with scales, the metathorax with ridge-like 

 crest ; tibiiB smoothly scaled ; 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 cenocrossa, Turner, Tr. R. Soc. S. Austr. xxxii. p. 62 (1908). 



2 . Head and thorax whitish tinged with red ; antennae 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 



