88 NocTTJin^T:. 



*1249. Polia pusilla. (Plate LXXX. fig. 28.) 



Thargelia ptisilla, Piinj?. Iris, xiii. p. 118, pi. iv. f. 10 (1000); Stand. Cat. 

 Lep. pal. p. 254, add. 



S . Head, thorax, and abdomen grej'-white mixed with pale 

 olive-brown and black ; tarsi banded with black. Fore wing grey- 

 white snfFused with olive-brown and irrorated Avith fuscous ; the 

 subbasal line represented by an obscure striga from costa and two 

 from cell ; antomedial line very oblique and rather irregular from 

 costa to submedian fold, angled inwards on vein 1 and outwards to 

 the postmedial line above inner margin, defined by whitish on inner 

 side ; claviform an ill-defined whitish mark ; orbicular a small ill- 

 defined whitish mark with dark point at centre ; reniform whitish, 

 ill-defined except on inner side, where its centre and circumference 

 are defined by black ; postmedial line double filled in with white, 

 minutely dentate, bent outwards below costa, excurvcd to vein 4, 

 then oblique ; subterminal line formed by a series of whitish and 

 dark dentate marks, angled outwards at vein 7 and dentate to 

 termen at veins 4, 3 ; a terminal series of small black lunules ; 

 cilia chequered fuscous and whitish. Hind wing whitish, uniformly 

 suffused with fuscous : cilia white with a brown line through them ; 

 the underside white irrorated w ith brown, a discoidal spot and curved 

 postmedial line. 



Hah. Tkanscaspia, Askhabad, in Coll. Piingeler. Exp. 36 millim. 



1250. Polia serratilinea. 



Mamestra serratHinea, Ti-eit. Schniett. Eur. v. 2, p. 38 (182.'i); Dup. Lep. 



Fr. vi. p. 430, pi. 99. f. 6 ; Herr.-Schaff. Eur. Schmett., Noct. f. 395 ; 



Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 155. 

 Mamestra polyoclon, Hubn. Eur. Schmett., Noct. f. 365 (1827), nee Clerck. 



Head, thorax, and abdomen ochreous brown mixed with grey ; 

 tarsi fuscous with" pale rings. Fore wing grey irrorated and suff'used 

 with ochreous brown ; a double, waved subbasal line from costa to 

 submedian fold ; a waved antemedial line defined by grey on inner 

 side ; claviform defined by brown and often filled in with brown ; 

 orbicular and reniform large, rather indistinctly defined by brown, 

 the former irregularly rounded, the latter with two white points 

 on outer side at lower extremity and one on inner ; a curved waved 

 medial line approximated below the cell to the postmedial Hue, 

 which is strongly dentate and produced to grey points on the veins, 

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

 ])ale points beyond it on costa ; a dentate whitish subterminal line 

 defined by somewhat dentate brown marks on inner side, angled 

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

 small black lunules ; a series of whitish points at base of cilia. 

 Hind wing whitish tinged with brown, especially on the veins and 

 terminal area ; cilia ochreous white with a brow-n line through 

 them ; the underside wliitish, the costal and terminal areas slightly 



