86 NOCTUIDiE. 



minutely dentate, angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at middle ; 

 cilia whitish mixed with brown and with a brown line through 

 them. Hind wing pale tinged with fuscous, especiiilly on the veins 

 and terminal area ; cilia white with a dark line through them ; 

 the underside white, the costal and termiual areas irrorated with 

 fuscous, a small discoidal spot and curved postmedial line. 



Hab. U.S.A., Colorado, Arizona, in U.S. Nat. Mus. Exp. 34 

 millim. 



1245. Polia plicata. (Plate LXXX. fig. 25.) 



Mamestra plicata, Smith, Ent. News Philad. ix. p. 243 (1898) ; Dyar, Cat. 



Lep. N. Am. p. 155. 

 Mamestra negvssa, Smith, Can. Ent. xxxii. p. 219 (1900) ; Dyar, Cat. Lep. 



N. Am. p. 156. 



Head, thorax, and abdomen grey mixed with dark brown. Fore 

 wing gvey thickly irrorated with fuscous brown ; the cell and area 

 just beyond and below it tinged with rufous ; the veins with some- 

 what darker streaks ; an indistinct subbasal line defined hy grey on 

 outer side, angled outwards in cell and extending to submedian 

 fold; antemedial line double, waved, filled in with grey ; claviform 

 small, grey indistinctly defined by brown, or rather larger and better 

 defined ; orbicular and reniform grey defined by black, the former 

 oblique elliptical, the latter with some fuscous in its lower part ; 

 traces of an oblique waved medial line from cell to inner margin ; 

 postmedial line defined by grey on outer side, minutely waved, bent 

 outwards below costa and incurved below vein 4 ; some pale points 

 on costa towards apex ; subterminal line whitish, angled outwards 

 at vein 7 and excurved at middle. Hind wing grey-brown with 

 fine dark terminal line ; the underside grey irrorated with brown, 

 a discoidal lunule and curved postmedial line. 



Hah. Canada, Alberta, Calgary {WoUey-Dod), 1 J , 1 5 ; U.S.A., 

 Colorado in U.S. Nat. Mus. Exp. 40 millim. 



*1246. Polia gnata. (Plate LXXXVI. fig. 8.) 



Mamestra gnata, Grote, Can. Ent. xiv. p. 170 (1882) ; Smitl^, Cat. Noct. 

 N.Am. p. 116. 



S ■ Head and thorax dark brown mixed with grey ; tegulte with 

 black medial line ; abdomen pale grey-brown. Fore wing dark 

 grey suffused with yellowish brown ; the lines double ; subbasal 

 line indistinct ; antemedial line minutely waved, oblique from 

 costa to median nervure ; claviform defined by black, small ; orbi- 

 cular and reniform well developed, with pale annuli defined by 

 black, the former rather oblique elliptical ; a slight medial shade 

 from lower angle of cell to inner margin ; postmedial line minutely 

 waved, l)enl outwards below costa and incurved below vein 4, the 



