500 NOCTTJIDJE. 



b^. Fore wing with the postmedial line not incnrvecl below 

 vein 4, 

 a". Fore wing with the antemedial line not bent outwards 



to inner margin indica. 



li^. Fore wing with the antemedial line bent outwards to 



inner margin v-hrunnea. 



b. Fore wing with the antemedial line oblique irom costa to 

 submedian fold, then erect. 



a^. Fore wing with the antemedial line not waved minor. 



61. Fore wing with the antemedial line minutely waved cinisigna. 



3359. Conservula anodonta. 



FUogophora anodonta, Gnen. Noct. ii. p. 63, pi. vii. f. 8 (1852) ; Smith, 

 Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 170. 



Head and thorax pi nkisli rufous; palpi fiery red : frons chocolate- 

 brown at sides ; tegulse with chocolate-brown line near tips, the 

 patagia and thorax with chocolate-brown line in front ; meta- 

 thoracic crests fiery red ; coxae clothed with fiery red hair ; abdomen 

 ochreous tinged with red-brown and with rufous towards extremity, 

 the ventral surface fiery red. Fore wing ochreous suffused with 

 pint and slightly irrorated with brown, the veins of terminal area 



Fig. 102. — Conservula anodonta, ^ . \. 



streaked with black, subbasal line brown, straight, from costa to 

 vein 1, a black point beyond it in cell ; antemedial line whitish, 

 very oblique, from subcostal nervure to above inner margin where 

 it meets the postmedial line ; medial area deep chocolate-red except 

 on costal area ; orbicular and reniform pinkish with white annuli 

 defined by black-brown, the former oblique elliptical, the latter 

 oblique bar-shaped, angled inwards on median nervure and con- 

 fluent with the former; postmedial line dark brown defined by 

 whitish on outer side, bent outwards below costa, excurved to 

 vein 5, then oblique and meeting the antemedial line above inner 

 margin ; three small white spots with brown streaks between thera 

 beyond it on costa ; subterminal line indistinct, pale, defined by 

 brown on inner side, excurved below vein 7, then sinuous ; terminal 

 area suffused with red-brown except at apex ; a fine black-brown 

 terminal line ;' cilia rufous. Hind wing ochreous tinged with 

 pinkish especially on terminal area and with some dark brown 

 irroration ; curved diffused brown postmedial and subterminal lines ; 

 a fine black-brown terminal line ; cilia pinkish, whitish towards 



