CONSEEVtJLA, 503 



Fore wing whitisli sufFused with rufous, the medial arcca deep 

 rufous except towards costa, the postmedial area paler ; subbasal 

 line indistinct, double, from costa to vein 1, with slight fuscous 

 mark on its outer edge below cell ; antemedial line indistinct, 

 double filled in with whitish, oblique and slightly incurved, from 

 subcostal nervure to inner margin ; orbicular and reniform white 

 slightly tinged with rufous and brown, defined by white at sides 

 and below, both oblique quadrate^ confluent below, extending to 

 below cell and forming a broad y-shaped mark ; postmedial line 

 double filled in with white, bent outwards below costa, then very 

 oblique and almost straight ; an indistinct oblique brownish sub- 

 terminal line ; cilia bright rufous with j^ellowish white line at base. 

 Hind wing white, the veins, inner margin, and termen tinged with 

 rufous ; cilia rufous with yellow line at base from apex to vein 2, 

 then white ; the underside with the costal area suffused with bright 

 rufous, slight rufous discoidal spots and a somewhat diffused 

 postmedial line from costa to vein 3. 



IJab. Madras, Nilgiris (Hampson), 2 (5,2 $ , Pondicherry ; 

 Ceylon, 1 $ type cingalesa. Exp. 38 millim. 



Larva. Yellow-green irrorated with yellow ; each somite with an 

 oblique yellow line defined by dark green on upper side ; a broken 

 dorsal line and lateral line pale yellow ; ventral pro-legs pale yel- 

 lowish green. Food-plant, bracken in the leaves of which it spins 

 a slight cocoon. ( W. R. Civm.phell.) 



3364. Conservula minor. 



Conservula minor, HoU. Pr. U.S. Nat. Mus. sviii. p. 253, pi. 8. f. 1 (lS9fi). 



2 . Head and thorax rufous mixed with purplish pink and some 

 white ; tegulse with white lines at middle and tips ; patagia willi 

 oblique white line across them and whitish edge above towards tips ; 

 pectus whitish ; legs rufous ; abdomen purplish rufous, white at 

 sides at base. Fore wing rufous with some pinkish on antemedial, 

 postmedial, and terminal areas ; subbasal line rufous defined by pale 

 pink on outer side, inwardly oblique from costa to submediau fold ; 

 an oblique rufous line defined by pink on outer side from submedian 

 fold to inner margin before the antemedial line, which is double, 

 rufous filled in with pink, very oblique from costa to submedian 

 fold, then erect; orbicular and reniform rufous with pale pink 

 annuli defined at sides by rufous, oblique bar-shaped ; connected 

 below and forming a y-shaped mark extending to vein 2 ; jjost- 

 medial line double, rufous filled in with pale pink, arising from 

 costa towards apex and very oblique below vein 4 ; subterminal 

 line pale pink defined by rufous on inner sides, oblique, straight. 

 Hind wing yellowish white, the veins and termen tinged with 

 rufous ; cilia rufous ; the underside with rufous points at angle of 

 cell and indistinct curved postmedial line. 



Hab. E. Africa ; Cape Colony, 1 $ . E.ip. 36 millim. 



