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Hah. Canada, Alberta, Calgary (Wolley-Dod), 2 ^ , 1 $; U.S.A., 



1 (S , Washington. Exp. 40 millim. 



Larva. (Original.) ]lead pale, shaded with brownish over the 

 vertex. Bodj' soft light green, occasionally shaded in brown ; dorsal, 

 subdorsal, and broad substigmatal lines paler, yellowish, defined by 

 darker edges. Spiracles white, in black rings. No shields. 



Food-plant : Thimbleberry (Rubus) and probably other low 

 plants.— H. G. D. 



1311. Folia satanella. 



Mamestra satanella, A.\T^h. B.or. Soc. Ent. Mosc. xxvi. p 445(1892); id. 

 Kom. Mem. ix. p. 16, pi. 2. f. 14 ; Stand. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 158. 



cJ. Head, thorax, and abdomen grey-brown mixed with dark 

 brown; tarsi with pale rings. Fore wing grey-brown, the basal 

 half suffused with fuscous brown ; subbasal line re^jresented by two 

 dark striae from costa ; antemedial line double, the outer strong, 

 oblique from costa to submedian fold, angled inwards on vein 1 and 

 outwards above inner margin ; claviform small, defined by black ; 

 orbicular and rcnitorm defined by black, the former small, round, 

 the latter constricted at middle and suffused with fuscous ; a curved 

 medial shade ; postmedial line dentate, bent outwards below costa 

 and incurved below vein 4, some pale points beyond it on costa ; 

 subterminal line pale brown, defined by a dark patch before it on 

 costa, the area beyond it dark except at apex, angled outwards at 

 vein 7 and dentate at veins 4, 3 ; some minute terminal black 

 lunules ; cilia with a fine pale line at base. Hind wing brown ; the 

 cilia pale, with a brow^i line through them : the underside pale, the 

 costal and terminal areas suttused and irrorated with brown, a dark 

 discoidal spot and curved postmedial line. 



Hah. Tibet, Kuku-noor, 1 cJ , Amdo. Exp. 34 millim. 



*1312. Polia quadrata. (Plate LXXXI. fig. 29.) 



Mamestra quadrafa. Smith, Pr. U.S. Nat. Mus. xiv. p..248 (1891) ; id. Cat. 

 Koct. N. Am. p. 124. 



cJ . Head, thorax, and abdomen dark reddish brown mixed with 

 grey ; tegulse with medial black line ; tarsi ringed with white. 

 Fore wing dark reddish brown with some pale irroration, the post- 

 medial area ])aler and redder towards inner margin ; subbasal line 

 defined by whitish on outer side, waved, from costa to vein 1 ; ante- 

 medial line defined by whitish on inner side, waved and oblique 

 from costa to submedian fold, then slightly angled inwards on 

 vein 1 ; claviform defined by black at extremity ; orbicular and 

 reniform slightly paler than ground-colour, very obscurely defined 

 by black, the former somewhat elliptical ; postmedial line defined 

 by whitish on outer side and produced to black streaks with pale 

 points on the veins, bent outwards below costa, incurved below 

 vein 4 and angled outwards on vein 1 ; subterminal line pale, 



