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1212. Polia parvula. (riatc LXXX. fig. 4.) 



Mamcstra parvula, Horr.-Sehuff. Corresp.-Elatt zool.-iuin. Ver. Eegensb 



1868, p. 118. 

 Mamcstra distributa, Mciscbl. Abh. Senck. Ges. xiv. p. 4G (1886). 



c? . Head and thorax grey strongly tinged with rufous ; palpi 

 black above towards base ; vertex of head and tips of teguloB tinged 

 with green ; tegulae with slight medial line ; patagia with black 

 lino near upper edge ; tarsi banded with black ; abdomen palo 

 purplish fuscous, the anal tuft rufous, the ventral surface whitish. 

 Pore wing greyish suffused with rufous, strongly to postmedial line, 

 a slight greenish tinge at base ; a fine waved subbasal line from 

 costa to submcdian fold ; a black antemedial line excurved below 

 the cell, angled outwards below costa and above inner margin and 

 inwards in cell and on vein 1 ; claviform defined by black, some- 

 times filled in with black, and reaching to or near postmedial line ; 

 orbicular and reniform large, with rufous centres and paler annuli 

 defined by black, the former round or slightly produced on outer 

 side, the latter rounded ; medial line represented by a striga from 

 costa ; postmedial lino angled inwards below costa, then bent out- 

 wards, dentate at veins 6 and 5, then strongly incurved, the veins 

 beyond it streaked with black, some pale points on costa ; sub- 

 terminal line indistinct, whitish, defined on inner side by a series of 

 small dentate rufous marks, angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved 

 at middle ; a terminal scries of small rufous lunules. Hind wing 

 white, the veins and marginal areas sufl^used with fuscous brown ; 

 the cilia white, with a fuscous line through them ; the underside 

 with the costal and terminal areas slightly irrorated with brown. 

 5 . More purplish grey and less rufous. 



Hah. Jamaica (Kat/e), 1 $ ; Cuba, Santiago (ScJiaus), 4 J , 2 5 . 

 Exy. 30-32 millim. 



1213. Polia cervina. 



Mamestra cervina, Smith, Ent. News. Philad. 1898, p. 247 ; Djar, Cat. 

 Lep. N. Am. p. 156. 



S . Head and thorax reddish brown mixed with white ; palpi 

 blackish at sides ; tegula3 with blackish medial line ; abdomen grey 

 and brown. Fore wing blue-grey slightly tinged with brown ; a 

 few black scales below base of cell ; subbasal line represented by 

 an obscure dark mark on costa ; antemedial line indistinct, double, 

 waved ; claviform represented by a slight black streak on a ])iuk 

 fascia extending to postmedial line ; orbicular and reniform 

 moderate, with brown centres and whitish annuli defined by black, 

 tlie former rounded, some pink between and beyond them ; traces 

 of a waved medial line obli(|ue from costa to below cell ; postmedial 

 lino dentate and produced to points on the veins, bent outwards 

 below costa, excurved to vein 4, then incurved, some pale points 

 beyond it on costa; subterminal line grey, with white spot in 



