POLIA. 101 



Austria, Frey.Coll. ; Switzerland; N. iTALr; Russia, St. Peters- 

 burg ; Armenia ; W. Siberia, Altai ; W. Turkestan, Issyk-kul ; 

 E. Turkestan, Hi; E, Siberia, Amurland, Ussuri; Japan, Oiwake 

 {Pnjer), 1 (S . Exp. 46 millim. 



Ab. 1. amurensis. Much darker. — E. Siberia, Japan. 



Larva. Kirby, Eur. Butt. & Moths, p. 227. 



Brownish grey, marbled, the ventral surface greenish yellow, 

 dorsal and subdorsal lines pale. Food-plants : Trifolium. montanum, 

 Cytisus nigricans, Anthyllis vulneraria, etc. 7-9. 



*1264. Polia passa. 



Mamestra 2MSsa, Morr. Proc. Bost, Soc, N. H. xvii. p. 139 (1874); Smith, 

 Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 122. 



2 . Head and thorax pale ochreous tinged with reddish and 

 irrorated with fuscous ; tegulfe with black medial line ; abdomen 

 greyish. Fore wing pale ochreous tinged with rufous and irrorated 

 with fuscous ; a black streak below base of cell; the lines indistinct; 

 subbasal line traceable ; antemedial line double, curved, waved ; 

 claviform large, defined by black; orbicular and reniform large, pale, 

 incompletely defined by black, the former somewhat oblique ellip- 

 tical, open above, the latter ill-defined below, the area beyond it 

 tinged with reddish ; postmedial line almost obsolete on costal half, 

 incurved below vein 4, the area beyond it strongly irrorated with 

 white ; subtermiual line white, very even, defined on inner side by 

 fuscous, especially towards inner margin. Hind wing fuscous ; the 

 underside dull fuscous with darker irroration, a discoidal lunule 

 and curved postmedial line. 



I/ab. U.S.A., California. Exp. 34 millim. This species is 

 unknown to me. 



1265. Polia ptochica. (Plate LXXXI. tig. 3.) 



Mamesfra ptochica, Fung. Iris, xii. p. 104 (1899) ; Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. 

 p. 158. 



<S . Head, thorax, and abdomen white mixed with fuscous ; palpi 

 with the second joint fuscous at sides; tarsi with blackish bands. 

 Fore wing grey-white irrorated with fuscous ; subbasal line repre- 

 sented by a black striga from costa and two prominent oblique 

 black stritc from cell met by a streak in submedian fold; antemedial 

 line waved ; claviform brownish defined by black ; orbicular 

 and reniform small, grey defined by black, the former oblique 

 elliptical, the cell before and between them and the area beyond 

 the reniform brownish ; traces of an oblique medial lino from cell 

 to inner margin ; postmedial line minutely dentate, bent outwards 

 below costa and oblique below vein 4, some pale points beyond it on 

 costa ; subterminal line defined by fuscous on inner side, angled 

 outwards at vein 7, dentate at veins 4, 3, and angled inwards in 

 submedian fold ; a lunulatc terminal black line. Hind wing white 



