78 NOCTtriDJE. 



olive below the cell and also its outer part below vein 1 ; elaviform 

 short and broad, defined by black and with a black streak from it 

 to postraedial line ; orbicular and reniform large, grey tinged with 

 reddish brown and defined by black, the former rounded, open 

 above and below, the latter extending to below cell, the cell before 

 and between them and the area below it suffused with brown ; 

 traces of a medial line angled outwards below costa and on median 

 nervurc and inwards to antemedial line above vein 1 ; postmedial 

 line double filled in with white, somewhat dentate and ]troduced 

 to slight points on the veins, bent outwards below costa, excurved 

 to vein 4, then incurved ; subterminal line irregularly dentate, 

 angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at middle, with some sranll 

 dentate black marks defined by olive and fuscous suffusion beyond it 

 except at apex and toruus and by a patch before it between veins 

 3, 4 ; the veins towards termen streaked with black ; a terminal 

 series of small triangular black marks ; cilia chequered olive and 

 white. Hind wing whitish, the veins and terminal area suffused 

 with brown ; the underside with dark discoidal point and curved 

 puuctiform postmedial line. 



Hab. Canada ; U.S.A., E. States, 1 c? , 1 2 , Illinois, Central 

 States, Texas, Dallas {Boll), 2 (5 , Colorado. Exp. 40 millim. 



Larva. Marten, Tr. Dept. Agr. 111. 18, app. 136 (1880). 



Head green. Body green marked with greenish white; a faint 

 dorsal line edged with dark green, subdorsal line distinct, stigmatal 

 line faint.— H. G. D. 



*1232. Polia literata. (Plate LXXX. fig. 13.) 



Cucullia literata, Fisch. de Waldheim, Bull. Mosc. 1840, i. p. 86, pi. 3. 

 f. 4 ; Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 161. 



$ . Head and thorax grey and dark broken mixed ; tegulae with 

 dark medial line ; abdomen ochreous mixed with dark brown. 

 Fore wing whitish, almost entirely suft'used with ochreous brown, 

 dark brown, and some grey, leaving patches of white below the cell 

 beyond subbasal line, as a dentate mark beyond the elaviform and 

 on inner area beyond postmedial line ; subbasal line double filled 

 in with whitish, waved, from costa to submedian fold ; antemedial 

 line double filled in with whitish, waved, oblique from costa to 

 below cell, then angled inwards on vein 1 : elaviform defined by 

 black, acute at extremity ; orbicular and reniform large, defined 

 by black, the former white, rather quadrate, the latter with brown 

 centre and white annulus ; postmedial line black defined by white, 

 bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then incurved, some 

 white points beyond it on costa ; subterminal line pale defined by 

 brown on inner side, excurved at vein 7, somewhat dentate on 

 veins 4, 3, and bent outwards to tornus, towards which it is slightly 

 defined by black, the area beyond it greyer ; a terminal series of 

 black lunules : cilia \\ ith a black line at base. Hind wing reddish 



