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abdomen ochreous mixed with red-brown. Fore wing purplish 

 grey suffused and irrorated with dark brown, and with some rufous 

 at base of costa and inner margin, in submedian fold, and in discal 

 fold from middle of cell to near siibterminal line ; a slight black 

 streak at base of rein 1 followed by others on subcostal and median 

 nervures and in submedian fold ; antemedial line indistinct, gre}"^, 

 strongly angled outwards below costa and in submedian fold, 

 inwards on subcostal and median nervures and vein 1 ; claviform 

 small, slightly defined by black ; orbicular and reniform defined by 

 brown, the former irregularly obIi(]ue elliptical, with dark point at 

 centre, the latter a large narrow lunule, with brown line at centre 

 and with its lower edge angled inwards on median nervure to the 

 orbicular ; jjostmedial line very indistinct, dentate, with darker 

 points at the veins, bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, 

 then oblique ; some white points beyond it on costa ; subterminal 

 line white defined on inner side by rufous, with irregular rather 

 dentate black marks, longest below veins 5 and 2, the line angled 

 outwards at vein 7 and dentate to termen at veins 4, 3 ; a terminal 

 series of black lunules. Hind wing white, with traces of diffused 

 subterminal band or wholly suffused and irrorated with brown ; 

 the underside with the costal and termiiial areas irrorated with 

 brown. 



Hab. U.S.A., Colorado (Bruce), 1 $, Durango {Oslai-), 1 J. 

 Exjy. 54 millim. 



1223. Polia purpurissata. 



Eurois purpurissata, Grote, Proc. Eut. Soc. Phil. iii. p. 82, pi. 1. f. 5 



(1864) ; Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 114. 

 Mamestra crydina, Djar, Can. Eiit. 1904, p. 32. 



Head and thorax purplish grey mixed with dark brown ; frons 

 Avitli two black bars ; teguhe with black medial line ; tarsi banded 

 with black ; abdomen grey tinged with red-brown. Fore wing 

 purplish grey irrorated with brown, and suffused with dark brown 



Fig. 20. — Folia imrpurissata, (^ . \. 



on costal area and in cell ; an indistinct ])ale subbasal line inter- 

 rupted at cell and ending at vein 1 ; antemedial line double 

 filled in Avith grey, waved, oblique from costa to submedian fold 

 where it is angled, then angled inwards on vein 1 and outwards 



