162 NOCTUIDiB. 



1352. Polia mesoglauca. (Plate LXXXII. fig. 31.) 



Mamestra mesoglauca, Huipsn. Ann. S. Afr. Mus. ii. p. 267 (1902). 



5 . Head and thorax dark purple-brown mixed with black and 

 white scales ; tegulse with medial black line : tarsi with ochreous 

 rings ; abdomen grey-brown, purplish red on terminal half and 

 ventral surface. Eore wing dark purplish brown mixed with grey 

 and black scales, the medial area suffused with white ; the sub- 

 basal line represented by black stri;e from costa and cell ; a black 

 streak below the cell to the antemedial line which is defined by 

 white on inner side, interrupted, waved ; claviform small, defined 

 by black ; orbicular and reniform moderate, white defined by black 

 and with slight dark centres, the cell between them blackish or 

 rufous ; postraedial line minutely waved and produced to blackish 

 streaks on the veins, bent outwards below costa, incurved at discal 

 fold, incurved below vein 4, some pale points beyond it on costa ; 

 subterminal line oclireous, defined on inner side by irregular 

 diffused dentate dark marks, angled outwards at vein 7 and dentate 

 at veins 4 and 3, the area beyond it greyish fuscous leaving an 

 ochreous apical patch ; a terminal series of black lunules ; cilia 

 fuscous with a series of ochreous points at base. Hind wing fuscous, 

 the interspaces of basal half whitish ; cilia ochreous with a brown 

 line through them ; the underside whitish, with the costal and 

 terminal areas irrorated and suffused with brown. 



Hab. Natal, Durban (Lines, QuecJcett), 2 $ : Cape Colony, 

 Annshaw (Miss F. Barrett)^ 1 5 type. Exp. 36 millim. 



1353. Polia speyeri. 



Trigonophora speyeri, Feld. Reis. Nov. pi. 110. fig. 15 (1874). 



Head and thorax purplish fuscous, a few of the scales tipped with 

 grey ; tegulae with black medial line ; tarsi with whitish rings ; 

 abdomen white tinged with fuscous towards extremity, uniformly 

 tinged in female. Pore wing with the basal area and costal half 

 purplish fuscous, the rest of wing pale ochreous brown suffused 

 with fnscous towards termen ; the veins with dark streaks ; sub- 

 basal line indistinct, double, waved, from costa to submedian fold ; 

 antemedial line double, waved, very strongly angled inwards on 

 vein 1 and outwards above inner margin ; claviform large, defined 

 by or filled in with black ; orbicular rather small, defined by black, 

 somewhat elongate elliptical ; reniform large, narrow, cream-colour 

 defined by black and with red-brown annulus at middle placed on 

 a blackish ])atch ; an indistinct dentate medial line ; postmedialline 

 double, the outer line indistinct, dentate, oblique from costa to vein 

 5, then strongly incurved ; subterminal line ochreous, with some- 

 what dentate blackish marks before it at middle, dentate outwards 

 at veins 7, 4, and 3, the area beyond it purplish fuscous ; termen 

 crenulate with black line and series of small wedge-shaped black 



