160 NOCTUIDJE. 



*1348. Polia nervina. (Plate LXXXII. fig. 28.) 



Apamea nervina, Dogn. Ann. Soc. Ent. Beige, xli. p. 408 (1897). 



c? . Head and thorax black-brown ; tarsi ringed with whitish ; 

 abdomen fuscous black. Fore wing reddish brown thickly irroraled 

 and suffused with black ; an indistinct, double, waved subbasal lino 

 from costa to submedian fold ; a double, waved antemedial line 

 angled outwards above inner margin ; clavit'orm small, obscurely 

 defined by black ; orbicular and reniform with fascous centres and 

 yellow-brown annuli defined by black, the former round, the latter 

 with a small white lunule on its outer edge and a white point at 

 lower extremity ; an indistinct oblique medial shade from lower 

 angle of cell to inner margin ; the posttnedial line indistinct, double, 

 waved, beut outwards below costa and incurved below vein 4 ; 

 the subterminal line ochreous defined by black suffusion on inner 

 side, angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at middle, diffused to 

 tcrmen towards tornus ; a terminal series of black points. Hind 

 wing with the basal half whitish, the terminal half fuscous brown ; 

 cilia whitish at tips towards tornus ; the underside irrorated with 

 white, the inner half whitish to postmedial line, a black discoidal 

 spot and sinuous postmedial line. 



llah. Ecuador, Zamora, type t J in Coll. Dognin. Exp. 28 

 millira. 



1349. Polia pannosa. 



Apamea pamiosa, Moore, P. Z. S. 1881, p. 3-45 ; id. Lep. Ceyl. iii. p. 27, 

 pi, 147. f. 1 ; Hmpsn. Moths Ind. ii. p. 205. 



Head and thorax rufous mixed with black and grey ; tarsi with 

 pale rings ; abdomen fuscous, the anal tuft tinged with rufous. 

 Fore wing purplish red-brown more or less completely suffused 

 with black, leaving pale ochreous patches before the antemedial line 

 below the cell, beyond the postmedial line between vein 2 and inner 

 margin, and a whitish apical patch ; the subbasal line double, waved, 

 from costa to submedian fold ; the antemedial line double filled 

 in with ochreous, waved, angled outwards below costa and above 

 inner margin and inwards on median nervure ; claviform small, 

 indistinctly defined by black; orbicular and reniform with pale 

 annuli defined by black, the former small, round, the latter narrow ; 

 traces of a waved medial line ; postmedial line black defined by 

 ochreous on outer side, minutely waved, bent outwards below costa, 

 excurved to vein 4, then incurved, some pale points beyond it on 

 costa ; subterminal line represented by some pale spots with very 

 indistinct blackish dentate marks before them, angled outwards at 

 vein 7 and slightly excurved at middle, the apical white patch 

 indented by the angle at vein 7 ; a terminal series of small black 

 lunules ; a pale line at base of cilia. Hind wing fuscous, sometimes 

 whitish towards base ; cilia with pale tips ; the underside whitish, 

 the costal area irrorated with fuscous, a small discoidal spot and 

 curved postmedial line, the terminal area suffused with fuscous. 



