150 NOCTUIDiE. 



Larva. Head light rod. Body violaceous browu ; subdorsal and 

 substigraatal lines broad, pale yellow, the subdorsal narrowly, the 

 substigmatal broadly black-edged above ; a yellow dorsal stripe on 

 joint 2, vanishing on joint 3, the ground-colour of joint 2 dark ; an 

 irregular browu lower edge to the substigmatal baud on thorax 

 only. Feet pale. — H. G. D. 



1330. Polia dodi. (Plate LXXXII. fig. 12.) 

 Mamestra dodii, Smith, ined. 



Head and thorax purplish grey mixed with rufous ; tegulae with 

 dark medial line ; abdomen grey irrorated with fuscous, the anal 

 tuft tinged with ochreous. Fore wing blue-grey, the costal area 

 suffused with rufous, on basal area extending to vein 1, and on 

 medial area to median nervure ; subbasal line defined by grey on 

 outer side, angled butwards below costa and cell and extending to 

 vein 1 ; antemedial line double tilled in with grey, angled outwards 

 below costa and excurved below cell and above inner margin ; 

 claviform small, acute at extremity, defined by black ; orbicular 

 and reniform grey, their centres slightly defined by brown, the 

 former narrow, oblique elliptical, tinged with rufous above, the latter 

 suffused with rufous above and fuscous below ; postmedial line 

 defined by grey on outer side, dentate and produced to points on 

 outer side, bent outwards below costa and incurved below vein 4 ; 

 subterminal line whitish, angled outwards at vein 7 and minutely 

 dentate at veins 4, 3, defined by rufous on inner side forming some- 

 what dentate marks at middle, the area beyond it dark except at 

 apex ; a terminal series of small black lunules. Hind wing ochreous 

 white tinged with fuscous, the veins and terminal area fuscous; 

 cilia whitish ; the underside whitish with a slight reddish tinge 

 and some black irroration, a slight discoidal lunule and diffused 

 subterminal band. 



Hah. Canada, Alberta, Calgary {Wolley-Dod), 1 J, 1 $. Exp. 

 34 millim. 



1331. Polia lilacina. (Plate LXXXII. fig. 13.) 



Mamestra lilacwa. Harv. Bull. Buff. Soc. Nat. Sci. ii. p. 119 (1874) ; 



Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 123. 

 Mamestra illahefacta, Mui-r. Proc. Bost. Soc. N. H. xvii. p. 141 (1874). 



Head and thorax grey mixed with dark brown ; tegulae with 

 slight blackish medial line ; abdomen grey mixed with reddish 

 brown. Fore wing purplish grey, mostly suff'used with brown and 

 irrorated with dark brown ; traces of a waved subbasal line from 

 costa to submedian fold ; an oblique, waved, antemedial line defined 

 by grey on inner side ; claviform moderate to large, defined by 

 black; orbicular and reniform large, with fuscous centres and 

 greyish annuli defined by blackish, the former oblique elliptical ; 

 an indistinct waved medial line angled outwards to low^er angle of 

 cell ; postmedial line double filled in with grey, minutely dentate 



