144 



xocTuiii.t;. 



1320. Polia anguina. (Plate LXXXll. fig. 3.) 



Mamestra anquina, Grote, Can. Eut. siii. p. 129 (1881); Smith, Cat. Noct. 



N.Am. p. "lis. 

 Mameatra /arMM, Smith, Ent. News Philad. vi. p. 338, pi. xv. f. 11 (1895); 



Dyar, Cat. Lep. N. Am. p. 152. 



Head and thorax black-brown mixed with white : frons with 

 blackish bar ; tegulae with strong medial black line ; tarsi banded 

 black aud white; abdomen whitish thickly irrorated with reddish 

 brown, the dorsal crests blackish at tips. Fore wing blue-grey 

 irrorated and suffused with fuscous brown, the medial area darker; 

 a fine black streak below base of cell ; subbasal line double, waved, 

 from costa to submedian fold, and with an obli(]ue striga beyond it 

 from subcostal nervure to submedian fold ; antemedial line double, 

 curved, hardly waved ; claviform large, defined by black ; orbicular 

 and reniform large, with brown centres and grey annuli defined by 

 black ; postmedial line double, the outer line strong, crenulate and 

 produced to streaks on the veins, bent outwards below costa, 

 excurved to vein 4, then incurved and touching reniform and clavi- 

 form, some grey points beyond it on costa ; subterminal line grey 

 slightly defined by brown, anr] with a dark patch before it on costa, 

 excurved at vein 7 and middle, angled inwards at submedian fold, 

 where it is crossed by a black streak extending to termen ; a fine 

 dark terminal line; cilia chequered gre)'- and fuscous. Hind wing 

 white, the veins brownish, the costal and terminal areas tinged with 

 brown, nearly uniformly sufl'used with fuscous in female ; cilia 

 white, with a dark line through them ; the underside with dark 

 irroration on costal area, an indistinct sinuous postmedial line. 



Hah. C.\NAUA, Alberta, Calgary ( Wolhy-Dod\ 3 c? , 3 2 ; U.S.A., 

 Maine, New Jersey, Illinois, 1 (S type, Nebraska, Colorado, Arizona, 

 Prescott {Kunze), 1 S ,2 § . Exy. 32 millim. 



1321. Polia vicina. (Plato LXXXll. fig. 4.) 



Mamestra viciva, Grote, Bull. Buff. Soc. Nat. Sci. ii. p. 156 (1874); 



Smith, Ciit. Noct. N. Airi. p. 128. 

 Ma7nesira telicjera, Morr. I'roc. Bost. Soc. N. H. xvii. p. 215 (1874). 

 Mamestra acutipennis, Grote, Ciin. Ent. xii. p. 214 (1880). 



Head and thorax clothed with dark brown and grey scales ; 

 palpi black at sides ; frons with black bar ; tegulae with black 

 medial line ; patagia edged with black ; tarsi banded with black ; 

 abdomen grey irrorated with brown, the dorsal crests dark at lips. 

 Fore wing whiti-sh, suffused and irrorated with fuscous; a sinuous 

 black streak below base of cell ; subbasal line indistinct, double, 

 angled outwards in cell and ending at submedian fold ; antemedial 

 line double, nearly even, oblique from costa to submedian fold 

 where it is angled ; claviform usually narrow and acute, often filled 

 in with black, and with a rufous streak above it; orbicular and 

 reniform with slight whitish annuli defined by black, the former 

 obliciue elliptical; postmedial line defined by grey on outer side. 



