246 NOCTUID^E. 



1826. Toxocampa dorsigera, Wlk. Cat. xxxiii. p. 873 : Hmpsn. III. 



Net. ix, pi. 162, fig. 18 ; C. $ S. no. 2295. 



Toxocampa cuculata, Moore, Lep. Atk. p. 159 ; C. Sf S. no. 2294. 

 Toxocampa orientalis, Butl. P. Z. S. 1886, p. 381 ; C. $ S. no. 2298. 

 Toxocampa vicise, Butl. III. Set. vii, p. 13 (nee Hilbn.). 



Violaceous grey-brown ; the vertex of head and collar jet-black. 

 Fore wing striated with fuscous and with the veins pale ; traces 

 of antemedial, medial, and postmedial dark lines, the last highly 

 excurved beyond cell ; an inverted P-shaped black mark at end of 



Fig. 137. Toxocampa dorsigera, 



cell, with some black specks on its outer edge, sometimes the out- 

 line only of this mark being present ; a stibmarginal slightly curved 

 pale-edged line ; a marginal series of minute specks. Hind wing 

 fuscous, the cilia tinged with ochreous. Underside with cell-spot, 

 traces of a postmedial line, and broad diffused marginal band. 



Small and large forms coexist in the N.W. Himalayas, the 

 former alone occurring in the Nilgiris and Ceylon. 



Mab. N.W. Himalayas ; Nilgiris ; Ceylon. Exp. 46-52 inillim. 



Genus CONSERVULA. 



Conservula, Grote, Bull. Buff. Soc. ii, p. 17 (1874). 

 Appana, Moore, P. Z. S. 1881, p. 355. 



Type, C. anodonta, Gruen., from N. America. 



Range. N. America ; Madagascar ; Sikhim ; Nilgiris ; Ceylon. 



Eyes naked and without lashes; proboscis fully developed ; 

 palpi upturned and reaching vertex of head, thickly scaled, the 

 third joint minute ; antennae simple in both sexes ; rnetathorax 

 with tufts which are well developed in the American typical species, 

 slight in the others ; abdomen without tufts ; tibiae without spines. 

 Pore wing with the cilia not crenulate. 



1827. Conservula indica, Moore, P. Z. S. 1867, p. 57 ; C. Sf 8. no. 1975. 



$ . Pale reddish chestnut ; collar pale-fringed ; a pale line on 

 tegulae. Fore wing with an indistinct subbasal line ; a dark speck 

 in base of cell ; a broad medial deep chestnut band with pale edges, 

 arising from the subcostal, narrowing towards inner margin, and 

 with a broad pale V-mark on it in and beyond the end of cell ; 



