148 NOCTUIT).!:, 



and area between it and postmcdial line, the area between sub- 

 median fold and vein 1 and the terminal area more or less completely 

 suffused with golden brown ; a sinuous black streak below base of 

 cell ; subbasal line represented by double black striae from costa 

 and cell ; antemedial line double, waved ; claviform large, golden 

 brown defined by black ; orbicular and reniform moderate, with 

 brown centres and white annuli defined by black ; an indistinct 

 waved medial line angled at lower angle of cell ; the base of inter- 

 spaces above veins 2, 3 tinged with black ; the postmedial line 

 defined bj' white on outer side, strongly dentate, bent outwards 

 below costa, excurved to vein 4, then incurved ; some white points 

 on costa towards apex ; subterminal line prominent, white, angled 

 outwards at vein 7 and more or less strongly dentate at veins 4, 3 ; 

 a terminal series of small black lunules ; cilia intersected with 

 white. Hind wing whitish tinged with brown, the terminal area 

 suffused with fuscous, more strongly in female ; the underside 

 whitish, the costal area irrorated with brown, a small discoidal 

 spot, slight curved postmedial line, and some obscure subterminal 

 patches. 



Hah. W. TuEKESTAN, Isp\k-kul, 1 c? , 1 $ ; E. Turkestan, 

 Khashgar, Hi. Exp. 4U millim. 



*1327. Polia mutilata. (Plate LXXXII. fig. 9.) 



Mamestra mutilata. Smith, Ent. News, ix. p. 246 (1898) ; Djar, Cat. Lep. 

 N. Am. p. 156. 



Head and thorax clothed with dark brown and grey hair and 

 scales ; tarsi with whitish rings ; abdomen brown and grey. Fore 

 wing fuscous brown mostly overlaid with purplish-grey scales, 

 some yellowish in base of submedian fold and beyond the claviform ; 

 subbasal line waved, from costa to vein 1 ; antemedial line oblique, 

 waved ; claviform moderate, defined by black, incompletely above ; 

 orbicular and reniform moderate, whitish defined by black, the 

 former round ; postmedial line rather indistinct, dentate, bent out- 

 wards below costa, excurved at vein 4, then incurved ; subterminal 

 line pale, defined on inner side by very slight, minute dentate 

 blackish marks, angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at middle ; 

 traces of a terminal series of black lunules. Hind wing uniform 

 fuscous brown ; the underside grey irrorated with brown, a small 

 discoidal spot and sinuous postmedial line. 



llah. Canada, British Columbia, in U.S. Nat. Mus. Exp. 36 

 millim. 



1328. Polia beani. (riate LXXXII. fig. 10.) 



Mamestra heanii, Grote, Can. Ent. ix. p. 87 (1877); Smith, Cat. Noct. 

 N. Am. p. 123. 



Head and thorax purplish grey mixed with dark brown and red- 

 brown ; tegulai wnth black medial line ; tarsi blackish with pale 

 rings ; abdomen reddish brown. Fore wing purplish grey suftused 



