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Show 1867.] MR. F. MOORE ON BENGALESE LEPIDOPTERA. 49 TYMPANISTES PALLIDA, 11. sp. (Pl. VI. fig. 1.) Male and female semitransparent, glossy: fore wing pale dull yellow, with three or four transverse indistinct dusky lunulated 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. Darjeeling. In Coll. W . S. Atkinson, Esq. ; F. Moore. Note.-"This species makes a clicking noise as it flies. It has a drum-apparatus underneath."-W. S. Atkinson, Darjeeling, Aug. 1862. T. TESTACEA, 11. 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 strise ; two irregular transverse indistinct dusky streaks, between which is a black discal spot; a submarginal 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 1^ inch. Darjeeling. In Coll. W . S. Atkinson ; F. Moore. Genus AUCHMIS, Hiibn. AUCHMIS SIKKIMENSIS, n. sp. (Pl. 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 interruptedly 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; obliquely 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 14f 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. 632. Darjeeling (W. S. Atkinson). PROC. ZOOL. Soc-1867, No. IV. |
