106 NOCTUID^. 



Ab. 1. acciptrina. Fore wing Avitb the reniform not filled in 

 with white. 



Hah. Britain, Leech Coll. ; France, Sand Coll. ; Germany, Zeller 

 and Fray Colls. ; Switzerland, Frey Coll. ; N. Italy ; Dalmatia ; 

 Turkey, Leech Coll. ; Armenia ; W. Turkestan, Issyk-kul ; 

 E. Turkestan, Hi ; E. Siberia, Ussuri ; Japan, Hakodate (Andretvs), 

 1 S, Tokio (Fenfon), 1 d, 1 ?, Oiwake {Pnjer), 1 $ ; W. China, 

 Kwei-chow, 1 J , Wa-shan {Pratt), 1 S , Ta-chien-lu (Pratt), 1 c^ , 

 Ni-tou, 1 (5* , Wa-ssu-kow, 1 $ , Omei-shan, 2 $ , Chia-kou-ho 

 (Pratt), 1 2 • Exp. 40-54 millim. 



Larva. Meyr. Brit. Lep. p. 8(5 ; Barrett, Lep. Brit. iv. p. 214, pi. 160. f. 3. 



Green to brown ; dorsal line whitish, traversing a double series 

 of oblique dark marks, darkest on somites 4 and 5 ; spiracular line 

 whitish, sometimes edged above with oblique dark marks ; 11th 

 somite dorsally humped. Food-plants : liumex, Pteris, Chrysan- 

 themum, etc. 8-9. 



1272. Polia glaucopis, n. sp. (Plate LXXXI. fig. 6.) 



$ . Head and thorax black-brown ; teguloe with slight black 

 medial line ; tarsi with pale rings ; abdomen fuscous brown, the 

 dorsal crests largo and dark. Fore wing purplish grey, sufi'used 

 and thickly irrorated with black ; a double black subbasal line from 

 costa to vein 1 ; antemedial line double, slightly waved, and with 

 prominent rufous patch before it on inner area ; claviform defined 

 by black ; orbicular and reniform with fuscous centres and defined 

 by black, the former round with greyish annulus, the latter with 

 j'ellowish annulus ; an indistinct slightly waved medial line ; post- 

 medial line dentate, bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, 

 then incurved, the area beyond it purplish grey with whitish patch 

 on inner area ; subtcrrainal line whitish, defined on inner side by 

 rufous, angled outwards at vein 7, excurved at middle and tornus ; 

 a sinuous black terminal line. Hind wing yellowish suffused with 

 fascous ; cilia yellowish white ; the underside whitish tinged with 

 brown, a slight discoidal spot and waved postmedial line. 



Hah. Canada, Vancouver I. (/. J. Walker), 2 $ , type. Ex]^. 

 40-44 millim. 



1273. Polia cristifera. (Plate LXXXI. fig. 7.) 



Acronycta cristifera, Wlk. xv. 1654 (1858) ; Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. 



p. 121. 

 Mamestra luhcns, Grote, Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. v. p. 113 (1875). 

 Mamesira rufida, Morr. Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phil. 1875, p. 62. 



Head and thorax black -brown mixed witli white ; tegular with 

 black medial line ; patagia edged with black ; tarsi ringed with 

 white ; abdomen grey-brown, the dorsal crests large and dark. 

 Fore wing purplish grey, more or less strongly suffused with black 

 and irrorated with white especially on costal area; a waved black 

 subbasal line from costa to submedian fold, defined by whitish on 



