'6 



jjoc'tuid.t:. 



its lower extremity connected by a white fascia with the reniform, 

 which is U-shaped, open above, with brown centre and white 

 annulus ; postmedial line double filled in with white, strongljf 

 bent outwards below costa, incurved, oblique and slightly sinuous 

 below vein 6, joining the antemedial line above inner margin, 

 some diffused white on its outer edge and some white points on 

 costa ; subtermiual lino only defined by the area beyond it being 



Fig. 21. — ToUa orha, cJ. \. 



more purplish grey, angled outwards at vein 7 and excurvcd at 

 middle, joined by an oblique dark streak from termen below apex; 

 a fine pale line at base of cilia. Hind wing white, the costal and 

 terminal areas slightly tinged with red-brown, a rufous terminal 

 line ; the underside with tbe costal area irrorated with rufous, a 

 dark discoidal point and traces of a sinuous postmedial line. 



Hah. Mexico, Coatepec (Brooks), 1 (S type, Godman-Salvin Coll. 

 Ea-j). 30 millim. 



1229. Polia rubens. 



Celana rubens, Druce, Eiol. Ceutr.-Am., Ilet. i. p. 274, pi. 26. f. 25 

 (1889). 



Head and thorax purplish red-brown mixed with a few white 

 scales ; tegulae with black line near tips ; jxitagia partly edged with 

 black ; abdomen dark purplish brown. Fore wing purple-brown 

 suffused with grey ; an olive-green streak in eubmedian fold to 

 postmedial line ; subbasal line double, blackish filled in with grey, 

 waved, from costa to subraedian fold, where it is connected with 

 base by a black streak ; antemedial line double filled in with grey, 

 strongly angled outwards below costa, then obliquely waved and 

 bent inwards to inner margin ; claviform more or less elongate, 

 strongly defined by black ; orbicular and reniform small, with 

 white annuli slightly defined by black, the former oblique elliptical, 

 the latter with yellowish centre, narrow, stronglj'^ angled inwards 

 on median nervure, slightly in female ; postmedial line double 

 filled in with grey, oblique from below costa to vein o, then strong!}- 

 incurved, some pale points beyond it on costa, the area beyond it 

 greyish, shading to rufous before the grey subtermiual line, which 

 is prominent, angled inwards below costa and in submedian fold, 

 outwards at vein 7 and excurvcd at middle ; a terminal series of 

 black points ; a fine grey line at base of cilia. Hind wing while, 

 the costal area tinged with brown, the inner and terminal areas 



