TRE MOTHS OF INDIA. 419 



bl. Hindwing without discoidal striga, a slight 



postmedial line from vein 6 to inner margin, ine'pta. 

 b. Hindwing with the inner area not brown . , indica. 



1748. POLYPHJEJTIS CONFECTA. 



1746. POLYPH^JflS DIMINUTA. 

 1745. POLYPH^^NIS INEPTA. 



1747. POLYPH-ENIS INDICA. 



Genus Ar.ea. 



Type. 



Aroea, Hmpsn., Cat. Lep. Phal. B. M. vii., p. 688 (1908) . . attenuata. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi upturned, slender, the 2nd joint 

 reaching about to vertex of head and moderately fringed with hair in front, 

 the 3rd short ; frons smooth ; eyes large, round ; antennae of raale minutely 

 ciliated ; build slender ; head and thorax roughly clothed with hair 

 and scales mixed, the pro- and metathorax with loose spreading crests ; 

 tibise fringed with rather longhair; abdomen with some rough hair at 

 base, but without crests, the female with long exserted ovipositor. Fore- 

 wing narrow and elongate, the apex rounded, the termen obliquely curve d 

 and hardly crenulate ; 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. 

 Hindwing with veins 3"4 from angle of cell ; 5 obsolescent from middle 

 of discocellulars ; 6" 7 stalked ; 8 anastomosing with the cell near base 

 only. 



1971. b. Ar^ea ATTENUATA, Hmpsn., Cat. Lep. Phal. B. M. vii., p. 

 688 (1908). 



Head and thorax grey mixed with dark brown ; palpi black except in 

 front ; frons with lateral black bars ; tarsi black with pale rings ; abdomen 

 brownish grey. Forewing brown tinged with grey and irrorated with black ; 

 subbasal line black, somewhat dentate, from costa to submedian fold ; a 

 black streak below the cell confluent with the lower edge of claviform, 

 which is narrow and acuminate ; antemedial line strong, black, slightly 

 angled outwards below costa, then minutely waved ; orbicular and reniform 

 grey irrorated with brown and strongly defined by black, the former round 

 or oblique elliptical, ojpen above ; the discal and postmedial areas more 

 strongly suffused with brown ; postmedial line strong, black, defined on 

 outer side by whitish, but outwards below costa, then dentate, strongly 

 excurved to vein 4, then very oblique, some white points beyond it on 

 costa ; subterminal line diffused, white, angled outwards at vein 7 and in- 

 wards at discal and submedian folds, at former to postmedial line, with 

 short black streak beyond it above and below vein 5 ; a terminal series of 

 small black lunules ; cilia white with brownish line through them. Hind- 

 wi ng whitish suffused with brown ; a slight brown terminal line ; cilia 



