POLIA. 93 



at apex ; a terminal series of small black lunules. Hind wing 

 ochreous-white, the veins and termiual area more or less tinged 

 with fuscous ; the underside with the costal area irrorated with 

 brown, a slight discoidal lunula and curved postmedial series of 

 points on the veins. 



Hah. Britain, I. of Wight ; S. France {Zdler), Frey & Leech 

 Colls. ; jS". Italy ; Dalmatia ; Turkey ; S. Russia, Sarepta, Zeller 

 Coll. ; Armenia ; Asia Minor, Pontus, Bithynia. Exp. 36-40 

 millira. 



Larva. Barrett, Lep. Brit. iv. p. 180. 



Yellow, with numerous small brown annuli most prominent on 

 dorsal area, some of them I'orming the dorsal and subdorsal lines ; 

 lateral and stigmatal lines yellow, the former edged by brown striae 

 above ; head reddish brown with yellowish points. Food-plants : 

 Chenopodium, Salsola, and Mesemhr)jantJiemum. 



1254. Polia contigua. 



Nociua contiqua, Scliiif. Wien. Verz p. 82 (1776) ; Ginel. ed. Syst. Nat. i. 



5, p. 2543 (1788); Vill. Linn. Eut. iv. p. 468 (1789); Hiibn. Eur. 



Schmett., Noct. ff. 85, 609 ; Dup. Lep. Fr. vi. p. 289, pi. 91. f. 2; Frey, 



Beitr. i. pi. 16; Steph. 111. Brit. Eat., Haust. ii. p. 184; Stand. Cat. 



Lep. pal. p. 157. 

 Noctua arite, Esp. Schmett. iv. pi. 160. f. 8 (1786). 

 Noctiia s-partii, Bralim, Ins. ii. p. 32.3 (1791). 

 Mamestra subcoiit ig iia, £v. Bull. Mosc. 1852, i. p. 155; 1856, ii. pi. 2. f. 1, 



iii. p. 19. 



Head and thorax purplish-red mixed with grey and black ; frons 

 with black bar, teguhe with black medial line ; tarsi with pale 

 rings ; abdomen grey mixed with brown, the anal tuft sometimes 

 ochreous. Fore wing grey mixed with brown and fuscous, the 

 medial area tinged with rufous, an olive shade beyond the reniforra, 

 the postmedial area greyer ; a sinuous black streak below base of 

 cell ; a whitish patch at base of costa with the waved subbasal line 

 on it, from costa to submedian fold; a double, waved antemedial 

 line filled in with grey and strongly excurved below the cell ; 

 claviform defined by black and with black streak from it to post- 

 medial line ; orbicular and reniform defined by black, the former 

 round or oblique elliptical, white and with whitish patch below it, 

 the latter with brown centre and greyish annulus often more or loss 

 angled inwards on median ncrvure ; traces of a waved medial line ; 

 l)Ostmcdial line double, the outer line indistinct, minutely dentate 

 and with slight black streaks beyond it on the veins, bent outwards 

 below costa and incurved below vein 4, some pale points beyond it 

 on costa ; subterminal line white, slightly defined by brown on inner 

 side, angled outwards at vein 7 and dentate to termen at veins 4, 3, 

 where there are small dentate black marks on its inner side, the 

 area beyond it brown except at apex ; a terminal series of small 

 black lunules ; cilia intersected with i)inkish white. Hind wing 

 white tinged with fuscous brown, especially on the veins and terminal 



