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Primaries with the normal maculation traceable only. Basal line indicated by 

 geminate marks on the costa only, the included space a trifle yellowish. T.a. 

 line marked in the same way on costa, but the outer portion of line traceable 

 by black scales in rather even interspaceal outcurves across the wing. T.p. line 

 better marked, traceable across the wing by elevated black scales, which tend 

 to become venular dots ; the course an even outcurve over cell, only a little 

 incurved below. S.t. line a little irregular, slightly paler, with a yellowish 

 tinge, variably marked by darker or blackish scales : obvious only when seen 

 at a proper angle to avoid the lustrous effect of the general surface. A series 

 of small black terminal lunules. Claviform barely indicated by black scales. 

 Orbicular small, round, annulate in yellowish and forming the most obvious 

 markings. Reniform large, constricted, incompletely defined, with a partial, 

 narrow, black edging and an incomplete inner ring of yellowish, variable in 

 the specimens. Secondaries white, with a blackish outer border and a narrow, 

 blackish terminal line. Beneath pale, powdery, primaries a little darker, all 

 wings with a more or less obvious extra-median line and discal spot. 

 Expands 34-35 mm. = 1.35-1.40 inches. 



Habitat.- — San Diego, California, MI, 31, VIII, I, XI, 2: George 

 H. Field. 



Four examples, all males, in fair condition. The vestiture of 

 this species consists of lustrous scales, easily dislodged and in no 

 case is the thoracic tufting perfect: hut it indicates a small anterior 

 and a larger more spreading posterior tuft. In one example there 

 are three small dorsal tuf tings on the hasal segments of ahdomen ; but 

 these are wanting on the others. The front is flat, without pro- 

 tuberance, the palpi oblique, reaching to the middle of front. The 

 antenucC have the joints slightly marked and laterally ciliated. 



POLIA Auct. 

 Under the generic term Polia. we have always had in our lists 

 an aggregation of species that were not closely related to the Euro- 

 pean species arranged under the name, and which were not even gen- 

 erically identical. But the species were nearly all rare, were not well 

 known, and thev remained unchanged until, in 1895. ^Ir. Grote pro- 

 posed the term Andropolia, without description, for theodori and 

 its immediate allies. Hampson adopts this term for those narrow- 

 winged si)ecies with an irregular s.t. line, in which the shadings form 

 two more or less conspicuous triangular patches basing on the outer 

 margin, the apices touching the t.p. line opposite cell and opposite 

 anal angle. The other broad winged forms are referred to Eurotypc 

 Hampson, and are closely associated with Xylotypc capax which is a 



