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1243. Polia rubrifusa, u. sp. (Plate LXXX. tig. 23.) 



(5'. Head aud thorax fuscous mixed with some black, the 

 scales tipped with white ; tarsi ringed with white ; abdomen 

 brown mixed with grey, the dorsal crests blackish. Fore wing 

 dark grey thickly irrorated and suffused with black and with 

 a slight purplish tinge ; the inner and postmedial areas tinged 

 with vinous red, tlie discal and subraedian folds on medial 

 area suffused with deep red ; subbasal line indistinct, waved, 

 from costa to submedian fold ; the antemedial line double, the 

 inner line indistinct, angled outwards below costa, then oblique, 

 waved ; clavifbrm absent ; orbicular aud reniform small, reddish 

 with slight white annuli defined by black, the former round, the 

 latter concave on inner side and with some fuscous in its lower 

 part ; an indistinct waved medial line ; postmedial line defined by 

 whitish on outer side, minutely dentate, bent outwards below costa, 

 excurved to veiu 4, then incurved, some pale points beyond it on 

 costa on a fuscous patch extending to subterminal line, which is 

 pale reddish defined on inner side by minute dentate brown marks 

 and by some fuscous on outer, slightly angled outwards at vein 7 

 and excurved at middle ; a fine terminal black line ; cilia dark 

 brown. Hind wing pale suffixsed with brown, the terminal half 

 dark brown ; the cilia brown at base, whitish at tii)s ; the under- 

 side white thickly irrorated with brown, a slight discoidal luuule 

 and curved postmedial line. 



I/ab. U.S.A., New Mexico, Bculah, 1 c5' . -Et^J. 34 millim. 



*1244. Polia umbrosa. (Plate LXXX. fig. 24.) 



Seotograynma umhrosa, Smith, Pr. U.S. Nat. Mus. x. p. 470(1887) ; id. Cat. 

 Noct. N. Am. p, l;30. 



5 . Head and thorax blackish mixed with grey ; frons with 

 black bar ; teguke with ill-defined dark medial line ; tarsi ringed 

 with white ; abdomen fuscous brown nuxed with grey. Fore wing 

 grey mostly suft'used and irrorated with fuscous brown, the medial 

 area rather daiker ; subbasal line double filled in with whitish, 

 waved, from costa to submedian fold ; antemedial line double tilled 

 in with whitish, waved and angled inwards on vein 1 ; clavitorni 

 moderate, indistinctly defined by black and with some pale reddish 

 brown beyond its extremity : orbicular and reniform with indistinct 

 greyish annuli defined by black, the former small, round, the latter 

 slightly angled inwards on median nervure aud with a faint reddish 

 tinge before and beyond it ; traces of a waved medial line ; post- 

 medial line defined by greyish on outer side, minutely dentate and 

 produced to whitish points on the veins,, bent outwards below costa, 

 excurved to vein 4, then incurved, some wbite points beyond it 

 on costa ; subtermiiud lino wliite, hardly defined on imuT side. 



