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POLIA RODORA, new species. 



Soft lilacine gray, shaded with brown through the center of the 

 wing; basal dash slender, dark, obscure; lines geminate, slender, 

 black, scarcely crennlate, illy defined; claviform outlined by brown 

 above; orbicular concolorous, obsolete; reniform outlined in pale 

 \ ellow isli, the line defining it \ciy fine within, thickest without in the 

 emargination; subterminal Line (lexuous, pale, running into a lilacine 

 subapical cloud; fringe dark and spotted with blackish. Hind wing 

 whitish toward the base, dark fuscous outwardly, the veins dark; 

 fringe pale. Expanse, 28 mm. 



One female, Mexico City, Mexico. August, 1909 (li. Midler). 



Type.— C&t. \'o. 12958, U.S.N.M. 



The species has the general eolorat ion of Polia pensilis Grotc. It is 

 smaller, the lines well separated, not united by the claviform as in 

 that species. 



POLIA SURGENS, new species. 



Fore wing gray, shaded with brown in the median and subterminal 

 spaces; lines geminate, powdery, black, the subbasal from costa to 

 submedian fold, followed by a black cloud on inner margin; inner and 

 outer lines slightly crennlate, approaching each other toward inner 

 margin, the outer crossing a large ovate pale yellowish patch above 

 tornus; a blackish shade in place of the claviform; orbicular and 

 reniform moderate, filled with pale or yellowish brown, ringed in pale; 

 subterminal line slender, white, forming two arcs, then ending abruptly 

 above the mark at tornus, followed outwardly by black in its incision 

 and Inwardly below by three black wedge-shaped marks; terminal 

 space gray-shaded; fringe dark, spotted with blackish. Hind wing 

 whitish on the disk in the male, the margin fuscous; veins dark; 

 fringe pale, Interlined with fuscous; in the female darker,*largely 

 fuscous. Ex pause, 30 mm. 



One male, two females, Mexico City, Mexico, August, 1909, Septem- 

 ber, 1909, October, 1908 (R. Midler). 



Type. Cat. No. L2959, CJ.S.N.M. 



Allied to Polia olivacea Morrison, but easily distinguished by the 

 form of the subterminal line. 



Genus HYDRCECIODES Hampson. 



HYDRCECIODES ALALA Druce. 



This species was described from Mexico City from one male speci- 

 men. I have ;i female from that locality, taken by Mr. Midler. This 

 species inhabits the high table-land; the form mentioned by Sir 

 George F. Hampson" as ;i subspecies, occurring in the low country is, 

 ] think, a distinct species, probably the same as the following. 



oCat. Lep. Phal. Brit. Mus., vol. 5, 1905, p. 25G. 



