60 NocTuiDJi;. 



Genus POLIA. 



Type, 



Tolia, Oclis. Scbnielt. Eur. iv. p. 73 (181G), non clescr. ; 



Treit. Schmett. Eur. v. (2) p. f) (1825) cappa. 



Mamestra, Ochs. Sclimctt. Eur. iv. p. 7t) (ISl*^), non descr. ; 



Treit. Schmett. Eur. v. (2) p. 127 (182n) pi'^i. 



Xan'hia, Ochs Schmett. Eur. iv. p. 82 (ISKl), iioii descr.... liifc<i(jo. 



Polymixis, Hiibn. Verz. p. 2(»5 (1827) fdhirdinma. 



Harmodia, Hubn. Verz. p. 207 (1827) compta. 



Melunchra, Hiibn. Verz. p. 207 (1827) perakaria. 



Mthria, Hiibn. Verz. p. 218 (1827) serena. 



Astra pet Is, Hiibn. Verz. p. 219 (1827) denfiva. 



Liataraxia, Hiibn. Verz. p. 219 (1827) splendens. 



Bianthixcia, Boisd. Silberm. Rev. Ent. ii. p. 246 (1834) ... cucnhall. 



Hecaiera. Guen. Noet. ii. p. 27 (18r)2) dysodea. 



Aplccta, Guen. Noct. ii. p. 74 (1852), nee Guen. 1841, non 



descr nehidoM. 



Pasfona, Wlk. xv. 1754 (1858) rudis. 



Maqu-a, Wlk. xxxiv. 1223 (1885) nidis. 



Meferana, Butl. P. Z. S. 1877, p. 385 pictida. 



Haderonia, Staud. Iris, viii. p. 320 (1895) mhartichanica. 



XanthaNa, Berg, Ann. Soc. Ent. Beige, xxxviii. p. 395 



(1894) bitcngo. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi obliquely upturned, the 2nd joint fringed 

 with long hair in front, the 3rd short; frons smooth ; eyes large, rounded; 

 Lead and thorax clothed chiefly with scales, the pro- and metathorax with 

 crests ; pectus and tibiae clothed with long hair ; abdomen with dorsal series 

 of crests. Fore wing with veins 3 and 5 from near angle of cell ; 6 from 

 upper angle; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form the areole ; 11 from 

 cell. Hind wing with veins 3, 4 from angle of cell ; 5 obsolescent from middle 

 of discocellulars ; 5, 7 from upper angle or shortly stalked ; 8 anastomosing 

 with the cell near base only. 



Sect. I. {Haderonia). Antennas of male bipectinate, with long 

 branches, the apical part serrate. 



A. Fore wing black-brown with a reddish tinge cuUa. 



B. Fore wing grey-brown. 



a. Fore wing with grey annuli to stigmata, a black lunule 



in submedian fold on inner side of subterminal line... arschanica. 



b. Fore wing with white annuli to stigmata, a dentate 



black mark in submedian fold before subterminal line suharschanica. 



1209. Polia culta. 



Mamestra culta, Moore, P. Z. S. 1881, p. 347; Hmpsn. Moths Ind. ii. 



p. 204. 

 Hadena subviolacea. Leech, Trans. Ent. Soc. 1900, p. 55. 



Head and thorax dark red-brown mixed with purplish grey ; 

 tegula) with medial black line ; tarsi with pale rings ; abdomen 

 dull brown, the anal tuft more ochreous, the ventral surface 

 irrorated with grey. Fore wing dark red-brown thickly irrorated 

 •with purple-grey ; a double, waved subbasal line from costa to 

 vein 1, prominently black and filled in with yellow scales below the 

 cell ; antemedial line double, oblique, waved, angled inwards on 

 vein 1 ; claviform small, defined by black at extremity and below 



