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1301. Polia furca. 



Mamesfra furca, Ev. Bull. Soc. Mosc. 1852, i. p. 154; Herr.-Schaff. Eur. 



Schiiiett., Koct. f. 628; SUud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 160. 

 Bianthmcia coUeti, Sparre-Schneider, Sieb. Euum. iii. p. 56 (1876). 



d" . Head and thorax grey mixed with some red-brown ; palpi 

 blackish at sides ; tegulae with two black lines near upper edge; 

 patagia edged with black above ; abdomen grey-brown, the anal 

 tufr and ventral surface tinged with rufous. Fore wiug grey 

 suffused with pale purplish ; the subbasal line represented by double 

 black strife from costa and cell filled in with whitish ; a blackish 

 shade on inner area before the double antemedial line, which is 

 filled in with whitish, angled outwards below costa and above inner 

 margin and waved between those points ; claviforni large, dark 

 brown defined by black, acute at extremity ; orbicular small, ellip- 

 tical, white defined by black and with slight brown centre, a whitish 

 line on its outer edge confluent with the bidentato white mark on 

 vein 2 before the medial line, which is oblique from costa to vein 2, 

 then dentate ; renifoim with grey centre and whitish annulus de- 

 fined by black, rather narrow ; postmedial line double filled in 

 with whitish, bent outwards below costa, incurved to vein 5, then 

 oblique and minutely waved, the area beyond it purplish grey 

 with some white points on costa ; subterminal line whitisli defined 

 on inner side by some black streaks below costa and dentate marks 

 at middle, the area beyond it blackish except at apex, angled out- 

 wards at vein 7 and dentate to termen at veins 4, 3 ; a terminal series 

 of small black lunules ; cilia with white line at base and intersected 

 with white. Hind wing fuscous brown, the interspaces of basal 

 half whitish; cilia white, with a brown line through them; the 

 underside whitish irrorated with brown, a discoidal point, waved 

 postmedial line and slight diffused subterminal band. 



Huh. Noeway; W. Tuekestan, Saisan, lssyk-kul,Kuruk Tag, 1 S , 

 Alexander Mts., 1 c? , 1 $ ; E. Tuekestan, Hi, Korla ; Mongolia, 

 Uliassutai ; Tibet, Xuku-noor ; E. Siberia. Exp. 42 millim. 



1302. Polia suavis. 



Mamestra suavis, Staud. Rom. Mem. vi. p. 428, pi. 7. f. 4 (1892) ; id. Cat. 

 Lep. pal. p. 169. 



S • Head and thorax greyish mixed with brown ; tegulae with 

 medial dark line ; some black scales near upper edge of patagia ; 

 tarsi with whiti:^h rings ; abdomen grey tinged with pale reddish 

 brown. Fore wing purplish pink suffused and irrorated with 

 blackish, leaving the postmedial area and an apical patch purplish ; 

 subbasal line double, black filled in with purplish pink, slightly 

 waved from costa to submedian fold ; antemedial line double, filled 

 in with pink, oblique from costa to submedian fold, then angled 

 inwards on vein 1 ; claviform large, defined by black, a dentate 

 pinkish patch beyond it on base of vein 2 ; orbicular and reniform 

 large, defined by black, the former pinkish, oblique elliptical, the 



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