THE M0TH8 OF INDIA. 1071 



Genus Conservula. 



Type. 



Conner outa, G rote, Bull. Buff. Soc. Nat. Sci., ii, p. 17 (1874). anodonta. 



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



A. Fore wing with the antemedial line not bent out- 



wards to inner margin . . . . . . indica. 



B. Forewing with the antemedial line bent outwards to 



inner margin . . . . . . . . . . v-brunnea. 



1827. CoNSERVTJLA INMCA . 



1828. CoNSERVULA V-BRTJNNEA. 



Genus Qroplexia. fypt'- 



Oroplexia, Hmpsn., Cat. Lep. Phal. B. M., vii, p. 510 (1908). decorata. 

 Proboscis fully developed ; palpi upturned, the 2nd joint reaching about 

 to vertex of head and fringed with long hair in front, the 3rd moderate : 

 frons smooth ; eyes large, round ; antennas of male ciliated ; thorax clothed 

 with long hair mixed with a few hair-like scales and without distinct 

 crests ; pectus clothed with long hair ; tibiee moderately fringed with hair ; 

 abdomen with some rough hair at base and lateral fringes of hair, but 

 without crests. Forewing with the apex rectangular, the tgrmen evenly 

 curved and slightly 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 just below middle of discocellulars ; 6*7 from upper angle: 8 anasto- 

 mosing with the cell near base only. 



A. Forewing with the reniform angled inwards on 



median nervure to or to below the orbicular, the 

 postmedial line not filled in with whitish . . decorata. 



B. Forewing with the reniform not angled inwards on 



median nervure to or to below the orbicular, the 

 postmedial line filled in with whitish. 

 a. Forewing with the postmedial line bent inwards 



along inner margin to the antemedial line . . retraheus. 



I i . Forewing with the postmedial line not bent inwards 

 along inner margin to the antemedial line. 

 a 1 . Forewing with the antemedial line bent inwards 



to inner margin . . . . . . . . luteifron*. 



b 1 . Forewing with the antemedial line not bent 

 inwards to inner margin. 

 a~. Forewing with the postmedial line oblique 

 below vein 4. 

 «\ Forewing with the orbicular V-shaped . . aeparaAa. 

 i 3 . Forewing with the orbicular oblique 



quadrate . . . . . . . . svnulata. 



