TYMPANISTES. CAREA. 



421 



Male with the retinaculum bar-shaped ; the basal segment of 

 the abdomen with paired sound -producing organs below, con- 

 sisting of hollow cavities inside each of which a spatulate process 

 strikes on a projecting ridge, a fan of long scales projecting 

 backwards from the surrounding membrane, the sound produced 

 being compared to that of a policeman's rattle ; the claspers when 

 exposed surrounded by dense masses of floss-silk. 



2328. Tympanistes rubidorsalis, Moore, P. Z. S. 1888, p. 409 ; Butl. 

 III. Set. vii, p. 52, pi. 126, fig. 5. 



S . Head, thorax, and fore wing brownish ochreous ; the last 

 with a dark-ringed white spot at end of cell ; faint traces of an 

 irregularly waved postmedial line; a series of marginal specks. 



Fig. 237. — Tympanistes rubidorsalis, tf . \. 



Hind wing semihyaline white ; the inner area suffused with 

 pinkish red. Abdomen bright red above. 



Hab. Dharrnsala. Exp. 52 millim. 



>) XV . 1 ^ 



^K 



2329. Tympanistes pallidus, Moore, P. Z. S. 1867, p. 49, pi. 6, fig. 1 ; 



C. Sf S. no. 1716. 



S . Differs from rubidorsalis in the head, thorax, and fore wing 

 being of a yellowish tinge, the last with no spot at end of cell ; a 

 submarginal as well as the postmedial waved line traceable; abdo- 

 men not so bright red ; hind wing without red on inner area. 



Hab. Sikhim. Exp. 50 millim. 



2330. Tympanistes testaceus, Moore, P. Z. S. 1867, p. 49, pi. 6, fig. 2; 



C. Sf S. no. 1717. 



5 . Differs from pallida in the head, base, and costa of fore 

 wing being green ; the ground-colour of fore wing redder ; a black 

 spot at end of cell. Hind wing reddish yellow. 



Hab. Sikhim. Exp. 44 millim. 



Genus CAREA. 



Carea, Wlk. Cat. x, p. 474 (1856). 



Dabarita, Wlk. Cat. x, p. 478. 



Ranaja, Moore, Lep. Atk. p. 121 (1882). 



Type, C. varipes, Wlk. 



