156 KOCTTJID.E. 



extremity in submedian fold ; aniemedial lino indistinct, waved, 

 oblique, defined by greyish on inner side ; orbicular and reniform 

 defined by black, the former U-shaped, strongly defined, the latter 

 whitish, open above and with its centre slightly defined by brown ; 

 a medial shade oblique from costa to median ncrvure where it is 

 angled ; postmedial line double filled in with grey, minutely 

 dentate and produced to black and white points on the veins, bent 

 outwards below costa and oblique below vein 4, some pale points 

 beyond it on costa ; subterminal line fine, pale, interrupted, dentate, 

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

 rather dentate black streaks before it extending beyond it to termen 

 in interspaces above veins 4 to 6 ; a terminal series of small black 

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

 tinged with red-brown, the terminal area suffused with red-brown ; 

 the underside paler irrorated with red-brown, a dark discoidal point 

 and indistinct sinuous postmedial liue. 



Hah. U.S.A., Nebraska, 1 6 type. Colorado {Bmce), 2 $ , Glen- 

 wood Springs, California, Knight Valley, 1 $ , Arizona, Nogalea 

 {Oslar), 1 c? . Exp. 36 millim. 



*1341. Polia bolteri. (Plate LXXXII. fig. 21.) 



Mamestra. holteri. Smith, Pr. U.S. Nat. Mus. xxii. p. 463(1900); Dyar, 

 Cat. Lep. N. Am. p. 156. 



$ . Head and thorax ochreous mixed with dark brown ; tarsi 

 with pale I'ings ; abdomen ochreous brown. Fore wing ochreous 

 brown, irrorated and suffused with fuscous ; subbasal and ante- 

 medial lines indistinctly double, waved, the former from costa to 

 submedian fold, the latter slightly oblique; claviform absent; 

 orbicular and reniform moderate, defined by blackish, the former 

 round ; a prominent diffused medial shade, oblique from costa to 

 median ncrvure ; postmedial line indistinct, defined by ochreous on 

 outer side and with some pale points beyond it on the veins, bent 

 outwards below costa and oblique below vein 4, some ])n.\fi points 

 beyond it on costa ; subterminal line greyish slightly defined by 

 fuscous on each side and with a more prominent patch before it on. 

 costa, slightly angled outwards at vein 7, then minutely waved ; 

 a terminal series of small black lunules. Hind wing ochreous 

 suffused with brown, the cilia ochreous ; the underside ochreous 

 white irrorated with fuscous, a small discoidal spot and curved 

 postmedial line. 



Hah. U.S.A., Xew IJexico, in U.S. Nat. Mus. Exp. 42 millim. 



1342. Polia mania. (Plate LXXXII. fig. 22.) 



Mamestra mania, Streck. Lep. Rbop. & Het., Siippl. 2, p. 5 (1899) ; Dvur, 

 Cat. Lep. N. Am. p. 15(i. 



5 . Head and thorax reddish brown mixed with fuscous ; 

 abdomen ochreous greyish, dorsally suffused with fuscous, ventrally 



