MLii. , 133 



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

 palpi blackish at sides ; tegula3 with black medial line ; abdomen 

 pale red-brown. Fore wing deep red-brown slightly suffused with 

 grey ; a sinuous black streak below base of cell ; a double, waved 

 subbusal line from costa to submedian fold ; a double, oblique, 

 waved antemedial line; claviform slightly defined by black ; orbi- 

 cular and reniform large, slightly defined by black, the former 

 irregularly elliptical, the latter extending to below coll ; an irregular 

 medial line angled outwards on median nervure ; postmedial line 

 dcfineil by greyish on outer side, dentate, bent outwards below 

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

 defined by somewhat dentate red-brown marks on inner side, 

 angled outwards below cotta and dentate nearly to tcrmen on 

 veins 4, 3. Hind wing fuscous brown, the cilia whitish ; the 

 underside whitish thickly irrorated with dark brown, a dark 

 discoidal spot and curved postmedial line. 



Hah. Canada, Hudson's Bay, St. Martin's Falls (Barnston), 1 cJ 

 type, Nova Scotia (Redman), i 5 , Calgary ( Wolley-Dod), 1 (^ , 2 J ; 

 U.S.A., Maine, 1 $, New Hampshire, White Mts. (VimmocJc), 1 2 

 type dimmocJci, Colorado, California, Sierra Nevada. Exp. 40 millim. 



Larva. (Original.) Head heavily reticulate with black, the pale 

 luteous ground appearing in small dotted patches. Body light 

 grey-brown, the tubercles, a series ot cuneiform subdorsal patches, 

 and a stigmatal shade blackish. The subdorsal patches are a little 

 oblique, sharply terminated behind, and the pair on joint 12 are 

 confluent. Faint yellowish dorsal and subdorsal lines. Cervical 

 shield and anal plate darkened. Snbstigmatal band broad, slightlj' 

 paler than the ground-colour. 



A general feeder. — H. G. D. 



1305. Polia atlantica. (Plate LXXXI. fig. 26.) 



Hade7ia w-latinum, Guen. Noct. ii. p, J04 (part.), nee Iliifu. 



Mamestra atlaniica, Grote, Bull. Bufi'. Soc. Nat. Sci. ii. p. 12 (1874); 



Sniitli, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 117. 

 Mameitra discolor, Spejer, Slett. ent. Zeit. xxxvi. p. 142 (1875). 



cj . Head and thorax grey-browu with a reddish tinge ; palpi 

 blackish at sides, frons with black bar ; tepulae with black medial 

 line ; abdomen grey-brown tinged with reddish. Fore wing grey- 

 brown sutt'used with rufous, except the costal area to beyond middle; 

 a sinuous black streak below base of cell ; a subbasal black striga 

 from costa ; antemedial line defined by grey on inner side, angled 

 outwards below costa and inwards on subcostal and median nervures 

 and vein 1, excurved below cell ; claviform moderate, defined by 

 black and filled in wilh brown ; orbicular and renifurra with greyish 

 annuli defined by black, the former oblique elliptical, open above, 

 the latter extending to below cell ; a dark shade beyond lower 

 angle of cell ; some pide points on costa towards the subterminal 

 line, which is yellowish white, angled outwards at vein 7, and 

 dentate to terraen on veins 4, 3, some dentate black marks before it 



