134 TfOCIVIDM. 



at middle and the area beyond it darker ; a terminal series of 

 email black lunules; cilia intersected with whitish. Hind wing 

 whitish suffused with brown, darker on terminal area ; cilia 

 yellowish white ; the underside white irrorated with brown, a dark 

 discoidal spot and curved postmedial line. 



Uab. Canada (Norman), 1 c? , Calgary ( Wolley-Dod), 1 d , 1 $ ; 

 U.S.A., E. States, 2 S type, Massachusetts, 2 S, Wisconsin, 

 Yirginia. Exp. 36 millim. 



1306. Polia vidua. (Plate LXXXI. fig. 27.) 



Mamestra vidua, Staud. Stett. ent. Zeit. 1888, p. 17; id. Cat. Lep. pal. 

 p. 159. 



c5' . Head and thorax grey mixed with brown ; frons with black 

 bar above ; tcgulae with black line near lips ; tarsi with white 

 rings ; abdomen brownish grey. Fore wing grey suffused and 

 irrorated with dark brown, the medial area more strongly suffused 

 with brown except on costal area ; subbasal line black, slightly 

 angled outwards on median nervure, ending on the rather wedge- 

 shaped black streak below base of cell ; autemedial line black 

 defined by whitish on inner side, angled outwards below costa, then 

 waved and angled inwards on vein 1 ; claviform large, defined by 

 black ; orbicular and reniform largo, m ith brownish centres and 

 white annuli defined by black, the former oblique elliptical, its 

 lower extremity nearly touching the latter, which is somewhat 

 concave on inner side ; traces of a waved medial line ; postmedial 

 line black, defined by whitish on outer side, minutely waved, bent 

 outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then incurved, some pale 

 points beyond it on costa ; subtcrminal line white with slight 

 dentate brown marks before it at middle, angled outwards at vein 7 

 and dentate to termen at veins 4, 3, the area beyond it rather 

 darker except at apex ; a terminal series of small black lunules ; 

 the underside grey irrorated with brown, a small discoidal spot and 

 sinuous postmedial line. 



Eah. W. TuKKESTAN, Ferghana, Issyk-kul, 1 S . Exj). 30 miUim. 



1307. Polia splendens. 



Noctua splendens, Hiibn. Eur. Schmett., Noct. f. 400 (1827) ; Herr.-Schaff. 

 Eur. Schmett., Noct. f. 396; Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 157. 



Head and thorax bright purplish red to pale dull rufous ; tegulae 

 with slight medial line ; abdomen ochreous tinged with purplish 

 red or rufous. Fore wing bright purplish red to pale rufous, the 

 veins and costal area irrorated with white ; a dark rufous streak 

 below base of cell; subbasal line indistinct, white, waved, from 

 costa to submediau fold: antemedial line waved ; claviform small 

 to moderate, defined by rufous ; orbicular and reniform irrorated 

 with white and with fine white annuli defined by ruibus, the former 

 oblique, irregularly elliptical, a sinuous medial shade oblique from 

 costa to lower angle of cell, where it is angled ; postmedial line 



