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powderings, most obvious on the primaries. In the best marked examples a 

 dusky discal spot and an extra-median spot are traceable ; but usually there 

 is no obvious maculation. 



Expands i. 60-1. 75 inches = 40-44 mm. 



Habitat.— Provo, Utah, VIII, 8, Mr. Tom. Spalding. 



Five females in good condition, varying greatly in markings, 

 but yet looking very much alike. On the whole much paler than in 

 diversilincata and without the reddish shading of illepida. 



So closely does this species resemble the others referred to this 

 series, that it is fair to assume that the male will be found to have 

 pectinated antennae. 



Polia theodori Grt. and Polia epichysis Grt. 



These are two remarkably similar forms, described as distinct 

 by Mr. Grote, but usually accepted as color variations and so referred 

 by me. Hampson follows the reference, with both types and an ap- 

 parent total of five examples of both forms under examination. 

 With a materially larger series of each, I am not so sure as I once 

 was, of their identity, the pure white secondaries of both sexes in 

 theodori, standing out prominently against the smoky reddish suffu- 

 sion in epichysis. 



A much smaller species evidently belonging here but unlike any 

 other thus far described, is 



Andropolia olga, new species. 



Head, thorax and primaries white, powdered with black atoms and locally 

 suffused with rusty brown. Head with a broad inferior black band and a 

 narrow interantennal black line : sides of palpi rusty brown. Collar dark 

 brown above a narrow black line. Disc rusty brown, posterior tuft marked 

 with umber brown. Patagia with a rusty shading, edged by a narrow black 

 line. Primaries with rusty shading at base, through the outer half of median 

 space and over the s.t. line, not defined nor exactly localized. Transverse 

 lines black, distinct, single. Basal line broken, dentate. T.a. line outwardly 

 oblique, strongly dentate, the tooth below vein i connecting with the median 

 shade and greatly narrowing the median space. T.p. line narrow, only a little 

 denticulate, moderately outcurved over cell and nearly parallel with outer 

 margin below it. Median shade broad, conspicuous, diffuse, outwardly oblique 

 from costa to lower outer angle of reniform, then close to and parallel with 

 t.p. line to inner margin. S.t. line conspicuous, black, irregular, diffuse, with 

 strong outward teeth not reaching the margin on veins 3 and 4, a long inward 

 tooth to the t.p. line opposite cell, and a similar tooth in sub-median inter- 

 space, where a brown shading obscures a black streak which is traceable from 

 the outer margin to the narrow loop-like claviform. A diffuse brownish black 



