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quadrate pale carneous area on the costa at base: a long slender 

 black dash in submedian interspace; inner line, claviform, and 

 orbicular black, slender, the claviform somewhat relieved by a reddish 

 shade beneath the cell; reniform elliptical, oblique, filled with a thick 

 gray ringlet, finely circled with black, its inner segment of the periph- 

 ery black, the outer segment white; outer line angled on vein 5, 

 whitish, faintly edged within by black, a reddish shade in the angle 

 next to the reniform; subterminal space carneous gray, terminal space 

 blackish shaded, the subterminal line lost, indicated by slight pale 

 powderings; fringe dark, interlined with pale at the ends of the veins. 

 Hind wing whitish in the male, pale fuscous in the female, fringe 

 fuscous. Expanse, 27 mm. 



One male, one female, Cuernavaca, State of Morelos, Mexico, June 

 and August, 1906 (W. Schaus). 



Type.— Cut. X«». 12978, I'.S.X.M. 



POLIA PHAULOCYRIA, new species. 



Dark gray. Fore wing soft, shining, lilacine gray, the median space 

 darkened by a blackish shading below the cell; at base of costa a 

 large, subquadrate, pale, somewhat carneous patch, resting upon the 

 slender black line on submedian fold; inner line geminate, blackish, 

 wavy, obscure; claviform angular, black; orbicular an elliptical 

 ringlet in the dark gray ground; median shade line broad, running 

 (lose to the outer line below and just within the reniform; reniform 

 black ringed, filled by a broad gray elliptical area, the outer segment 

 of the periphery nearly white; outer line angled on vein 5, pale, not 

 waved, edged within by a black line, a reddish shading between the 

 angle and reniform; subterminal and terminal spaces of the dark 

 ground color alike, a little darker clouded centrally along the margin; 

 subternfinal line indicated by a whitish powdering, unusually near the 

 margin; a black line at base of fringe. Hind wing dark fuscous, the 

 fringe pale. Expanse, 25 mm. 



One female, Zacualpan, Mexico, August, 1909 (K. Midler); another 

 female, Cuernavaca, Mexico, June, 1900 (W. Schaus). 



Type.— Qui. No. 12979, U.S.N.M. 



The coloration is much as in Polia rodora Dyar (described below), 

 but the pattern of markings is more as in Polia eucyria Dyar, the 

 preceding species. 



POLIA JOCOSA Schaus. 



This species has been made a synonym of Polia psittacus Ilerrich- 

 Schaeffer, but it is abundantly distinct. The dark color on the disk 

 of fore w ing is continuous and not broken up by patches of the ground 

 color, while two curved dashes of the green ground color nearly 

 separate a triangular black patch near anal angle. There is no such 

 marking in psittacus. 



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