112 NOCTUlDJi;. 



vein 1 ; antemedial line waved ; claviform well-develo])ed, defined by 

 black ; orbicular and reniform large, defined by black, the former 

 grey, rather quadrate, the latter with brown centre and grey 

 annulus ; a diffused, slightly waved medial line ; postmedial line 

 dentate and produced to a double series of points on the veins, 

 bent outwards below costa aud incurved below vein 4, some white 

 points on costa bcj'ond it ; subtenuiual line whitish, defined on 

 inner side by dark marks below costa at middle and inner margin, 

 angled outwards at vein 7 and somewhat dentate at veins 4, 3 ; a 

 terminal series of black lunules. Hind wing almost uniformly 

 suffused with reddish brown, leaving slight white spots on termen 

 at vein 2 aud submedian fold ; cilia white ; the underside white 

 irrorated with brown, a discoidal lunule, curved postmedial line and 

 diffused postmedial band. 



Ab. 1. ohscurata. Smaller and darker. — Amurland. 



Hah. Bkitain^, Leech Coll. ; Feance, Sand Coll. ; Germany, 

 Zeller and Frey Colls.; Atjsteia, Frey Coll.; N. Italy; Eussia, 

 Livonia, Zeller Coll., Urals; W. Siberia, Altai ; Mongolia, Urga ; 

 E. Siberia, Kentei, Amurland. Exjy. 48-52 millim. 



Larva. Meyr. Brit. Lep. p. 85 ; Barrett, Lep. Brit. iv. p. 160, pi. 154. f. 2. 



Pale reddish brown, finely freckled with black and white ; dorsal 

 line slender, whitish, black-edged ; head brown. Food-plants : 

 Birch, Vaccinium, grasses, etc. 9-5. 



1282. Polia latex. (Plate LXXXI. fig. 12.) 



Apkda latex, Guen. Noct. ii. p. 78 (1852) ; Siiiitli, Cat. Noct. N. Am. 



p. 121. 

 Apamea demissa, Wlk. si. 728 (1857). 



Head and thorax grey mixed with dark brown and black; frons 

 with black band ; tegulse with black medial line ; dorsal crest 

 blackish ; tarsi with blackish rings ; abdomen grey irrorated with 

 brown, the dorsal crests small and dark. Fore wing grey-white 

 irrorated with brown and black, the veins streaked in places with 

 black ; an indistinct waved subbasal line, bent inwards above vein 

 1, a patch of black suffusion beyond it from costa to median 

 nervure ; a double, waved, oblique antemedial line, the inner line 

 indistinct ; claviform well-developed, rather indistinctly defined by 

 black ; orbicular and reniform large, rather ii: completely defined by 

 black, the former rather oblique elliptical, and approximated to the 

 latter, which has its centre defined by brown and is tinged with 

 blood-red on inner side and suffused by a brown shade on inner 

 side of postmedial line, running obliquely from middle of costa to 

 postmedial line at vein 2 ; an indistinct, oblique, waved medial line 

 from cell to inner margin ; postmedial line rather indistinctly 

 double, dentate, and produced to points on the veins, bent outwards 

 below costa, excurved to vein 4, then incurved ; subterminal line 

 defined by the area beyond it being rather darker, angled inwards 

 at discal aud submedian folds, outwards at vein 7, and excurved at 



