80 NOCTTJTDJ-:. 



patch on base of vein 2 gvej : hind wing fuscous brown, the cilia 

 ochreous white. 



Hah. Bkitain, Ireland, Leech Coll.; Guernsei {F. E. Lowe); 

 France, Sand Coll. ; Germany, Zeller Coll. ; Austria, Zeller & 

 Leech Colls. ; Spain, Andalusia, Castille; Corsica; Lxalt ; Algeria ; 

 Russia, Sarepta, Zeller Coll., Urals ; Armenia ; Asia Minor, Pontus ; 

 Mesopotamia ; W. Turkestan, Ferghana, Issyk-kul ; W. Siberia, 

 Altai. Exp. 34-44 millim. 



Larva. Meyr. Brit. Lep. p. 78 ; Barrett, Lep. Brit. iv. p. 2()1, pi. 165. f. 2. 



Pale ochreous with a slight pinkish tinge ; dorsal line indistinct, 

 fuscous ; head reddish pink with blackish markings. Food-plants : 

 roots of Silene muritima and injlata. 7-9. 



1234. Polia canities, n. sp. (Plate LXXX. fig. 14.) 



cJ . Head and thorax pale brownish white irrorated with dark 

 brown ; pal}»i banded with fuscous ; abdomen brownish ochreous 

 irrorated with dark brown. Fore wing pale ochreous brown 

 sparsely irrorated with white ; traces of a double subbasal line from 

 costa to submedian fold ; antemedial line very indistinct, oblique, 

 waved ; claviform faintly defined by brown ; orbicular and reniform 

 almost obsolete, defined by a few yellow and dark scales, the former 

 round ; postmedial line very indistinct, dentate and produced to 

 white points on the veins, bent oittwards below costa, excurvcd to 

 vein 4, then oblique, some pale points beyond it on costa ; sub- 

 terminal line formed by a series of very obscure yellowish and dark 

 lunules, angled outwards at vein 7 and escurved at middle ; fine 

 pale lines at base and through middle of cilia. Hind wing whitish 

 irrorated with brown, the terminal area suffused with brown ; 

 cilia whitish, with a brown line through them ; the underside with 

 discoidal point, curved postmedial line, and terminal fuscous band. 



Uah. U.S.A., California, 1 S • Exj_^. 32 millim. 



1235. Polia discolor. (Plate LXXX. fig. 15.) 



Scotoijramma discolor. Smith, Journ. N.Y. Ent. Soc. \ii. p. 42 (1899) ; 

 Dyar, Cat. Lep. N. Am. p. 159. 



cJ . Head and thorax clothed with pale reddish broAvn and black 

 scales and hairs ; tarsi ringed with white ; abdomen pale brown 

 mixed with dark brown. Fore wing pale ochreous, almost entirely 

 irrorated and suffused with fuscous brown ; subbasal line repre- 

 sented by an oblique scries of three groups of black scales ; ante- 

 medial line black, oblique from costa to submedian fold, then 

 angled inwards on vein 1 ; claviform very obscurely defined by 

 black ; orbicular round, very indistinct, with pale annulus ; reniform 

 represented by an obscure X-shaped black mark ; postmedial line 

 irregularly dentate and formed by a series of black lunules, bent 

 outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then incurved; sub- 

 terminal line represented by a series of somewhat dentate black 



