158 NOCTUIB^.. 



with white ; tarsi ringed with white ; abdomen fuscous irrorated 

 with grey. Fore wing pale olive-brown, almost entirely irrorated 

 and suffused with fuscous ; faint traces of a waved subbasal line 

 from costa to submedian fold ; antemedial line indistinct, double, 

 waved ; orbicular and reniform fuscous with slight pale annuli, the 

 former round ; traces of a medial line angled outwards on median 

 nervure ; postmedial line slightly defined by pale brown on outer 

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

 with a series of black and white points beyond it on the veins and 

 some white points on costa ; subterminal line prominent, ochreous, 

 slightly defined by black on inner side, somewhat angled outwards 

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

 defined by slight ochreous lunules on inner side. Hind wing 

 fuscous brown, pale at base ; cilia grey with a fuscous line through 

 them ; the underside whitish thickly irrorated with fuscous, a small 

 discoidal spot and traces of a postmedial line. 



Hah. Chili {Edmonds), 2 5 type. E.vp. 38 millim. 



1345. Polia atrirena, n. sp. (Plate LXXXII. fig. 25.) 



2 . Head and thorax red-brown mixed with black, the scales 

 tipped with grey ; the tegulae edged with white ; froiis with black 

 bar ; abdomen fuscous brown, the ventral surface purplish red 

 irrorated with black. Pore wing red-brown with a purplish tinge, 

 and sparsely irrorated with black ; subbasal line indistinct, black, 

 curved from costa to submedian fold : antemedial line double, ill- 

 defined and interrupted, slightly waved ; claviform represented by 

 a few black scales ; orbicular and reniform with black centres and 

 white annuli defined by black, the former small, round, the latter 

 large ; postmedial line indistinctly double, dentate, bent outwards 

 below costa, excurved to vein 4, then incurved, some grey points 

 beyond it on costa ; subterminal line a faint fuscous shade, angled 

 outwards at vein 7 and slightly excurved at middle, a terminal 

 series of small black lunules. Hind wing fuscous, the interspaces 

 of basal half whitish ; the underside whitish, the costal and terminal 

 areas irrorated with brown and black, a black discoidal lunule and 

 rather strong postmedial line. 



Hah. Br. E. Africa, Lagari (Betton), 1 5 , Xdimu (Deiton), 

 1 2 type. Ex2}. 40 millim. 



1346. Polia assimilis. (Plate LXXXII. fig. 26.) 



Mamestra assimilis, Morr. Bull. Buff. Soc. Nat. Sci. ii. p. 119 (1874) ; 



Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 121. 

 Mamestra ■pidverulenia. Smith, Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus. x. p. 468 (1887). 



Head and thorax black-brown ; tarsi with pale rings ; abdomen 

 ochreous suffused with fuscous brown. Fore wing black with a 

 slight fuscous gloss ; a pale rufous streak on base of inner margin ; 

 a slight black streak below base of cell; antemedial line somewhat 



