. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. 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 a
. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. 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.— 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. 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, t
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