94 



NOCTUID^, 



area ; a fine terminal dark line ; the cilia white ; the underside 

 with the costal area irrorated with hrown, a small discoidal spot 

 and sinuous postmedial line. 



Ah. 1, suhcontigua. Darker. — Urals, Ipask. 



Hah. Britain, Scotland, England, Leech Coll. ; Fe.\nce, Leech 

 Coll. ; Germany, Zoller & Frey Colls. ; N". Spain ; N. Italy ; 

 Russia, Urals ; Armenia ; Siberia, Ussuri ; Japan (Pryer), 1 c? • 

 Exj). 40 millim. 



Larva. Meyr. Brit. Lep. p. 83 ; Barrett, Le]5. Brit. iv. p. 170, pi. 156. f. 1. 



Dull yellowish green, suffused with orauge-ochreous and mottled 

 with reddish brown, above forming dorsal series of V-shaped 

 marks ; spiracular line reddish brown. Food-plants : Oak, Birch, 

 Solidago, etc. 8-9. 



1255. Polia grandis. (Plate LXXX. fig. 30.) 



Hadena grandis, Boisd. Gen. et Ind. Meth. p. 120 (1840) ; Gueu. Noct. ii. 



p. 105, pi. 8. f. 10 ; Sinitli, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 118. 

 Xylophania libera, Wlk. ix. 179 (1856). 



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

 with blackish bar ; tegulae with black medial line ; tarsi with pale 

 reddish rings ; abdomen grey-brown, the dorsal crests dark at tijts, 

 the anal tuft with a fulvous tinge. Fore wing purplish grey largely 

 suffused with bright rufous and dark brown ; a sinuous black lino 

 below base of cell ; traces of a pale curved subbasal line from costa ; 

 antemedial line double, oblique, waved ; claviform short and broad, 

 defined by black and with black streak from below it to postmedial 

 line ; orbicular and reniform with brown centres and grey aniiuli 

 defined by black, the former round or elliptiLal, the latter extending 

 to below cell ; an indistinct irregularly waved medial line, oblique 

 from costa to below cell where it is angled ; postmedial lino double, 

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

 then incurved, the area beyond it lilacine grey ; subtermimil line 

 white, defined on inner side by some rufous, with straight inner 

 edge from below costa, some small dentate black marks before it at 

 middle, angled outwards at vein 7 and dentate nearly to termen on 

 veins 4, 3, the area beyond it suffused with black ; a terminal series 

 of small black lunules. Hind wing fuscous brown with a yellowish 

 tinge : the cilia whitish with a brown line through them ; the 

 underside whitish thickly irrorated with reddish brown, a dark 

 discoidal spot, slightly waved postmedial line, and diffused subter- 

 minal band. 



Hah. Greenland ; Canada ; U.S.A., N.E. and Middle States, 

 Maine, New York, Trenton Falls (Douhh'day), 2 J , 1 $ , type libera, 

 Evans Centre ( Grote), 1 <S , 1 $ , Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Illinois, 

 Minnesota, Colorado. E.rji. 48 millim. 



Larva. (Original.) Head shining red-brown, the reticulations and 

 bands darker, but narrow and broken. Body grey-brown, peppered 

 with black on a whitish and reddish ground, all the markings 



