POIJA. l'">3 



1335. Polia gavisa. (Plate LXXXII. fig. 16.) 



Mamestra gavisa, Schaus, Journ. N. Y. Ent. Soc. vi. p. 142(1898) ; Druce, 

 Biol. Ceutr.-Am. , Het. ii. p. 567. 



S . Head and thorax red-brown with a purplish tinge, the scales 

 with pale tips ; palpi blackish at sides ; tarsi banded blacl\ and 

 pinkish ; abdomen fuscous brown, the ventral surface more rufous. 

 Fore wing dark brown irrorated with grey and tinged with purplish 

 red ; a sinuous black streak in base of submedian fold ; subbasal 

 line indistinctly double, filled in with greyish, waved, from costa to 

 submedian fold ; antemedial line double filled in with greyish, 

 waved, somewhat oblique ; claviform small, defined by black ; 

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

 the latter concave towards base and with white line on its outer 

 edge ; traces of a medial line, approximated below the cell to the 

 postmedial line which is double filled in with grey and with some 

 short black streaks beyond it on the veins, bent outwards below 

 costa, excurved to vein 4, then incurved, some pale points beyond 

 it on costa ; subterminal line represented by a series of small black 

 and grey dentate marks defined by red-brown on inner side, the 

 area beyond them fuscous except at apex, slightly angled outwards 

 at vein 7 and middle ; a terminal series of black points ; cilia 

 blackish, with fiue pale lines at base and middle. Bind wing 

 fuscous brown, pale on basal and inner areas ; cilia pale with a 

 brown line through them ; the underside pale irrorated with dark 

 brown, the costal area tinged with purplish pink, a black discoidal 

 spot, sinuous postmedial line, and terminal waved line interruj)ted 

 at the veins. 



Hah. Mexico, Las Yigas, 1 S , type t J in Coll. Schaus. Exp, 

 36 millim. 



1336. Polia goodelli. (Plate LXXXII. fig. 17.) 



Mamestra gooJcUt, Grote, Can. Ent. yii. p. 223 (1875) ; Smith, Cat. Noct. 

 N. Am. p. 124. 



Head and thorax dark brown slightly mixed with red-brown 

 and grey ; tarsi with pale rings ; abdomen fuscous brown. Pore 

 wing dark brown tinged with red-brown and slightly mixed with 

 grey ; subbasal line double filled in with grey, curved from costa 

 to submedian fold; antemedial line rather indistinct, double filled 

 in with grey, oblique, waved ; claviform small, strongly defined by 

 black; orbicular and reniform defined by black, the former nearly 

 round, the latter whitish, its centre defined by fuscous ; an indis- 

 tinct waved medial line, oblique from costa to median nervure ; 

 postmedial line dentate and produced to white points on the veins, 

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

 pale points beyond it on costa ; subterminal line interrupted, grey, 

 dentate, angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at middle, with 

 some small dentate black marks on its inner side ; a tcmiinul 



