164 NOCTriDiE. 



the underside with the costal area irrorated with brown, a slight 

 discoidal point and traces of a sinuous postmedial line. 



Hah. Mashonaland, Salisbury {Marshall), 1 cS ; Natal, Estcourt 

 (Rutcliinson), 2 c? type. Ea-j). 32 millim. 



135G. Polia fiirvilinea. (Plate LXXXIII. fig. 2.) 

 Mamestra furvilinca, Hinpsn. Ann. S. Afr. Miis. ii. p. 2G8 (1902). 



Head and thorax red-brown mixed with grey ; abdomen greyish 

 chreous irrorated with brown, the anal tuft more ochreous. Fore 

 wing red-brown thickly irrorated with grey, the veins streaked with 

 grey ; subbasal line represented by an indistinct striga from costa ; 

 antemedial line obliquely curved, brown defined by grey on inner 

 side ; claviform absent ; orbicular and reniform rather oblique, V- 

 shaped, open above, with grey annuli defined by brown ; postmedial 

 line indistinct, bent outwards below costa and oblique below vein 4; 

 subterminal line whitish defined by rufous on inner side, slightly 

 angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at middle ; a terminal 

 series of black points. Hind Aving white, the veins beyond middle 

 and terminal area tinged with brown especially in female : cilia 

 with brown line near base ; the underside with the costal and 

 terminal areas irrorated with brown. 



Hah. Mashonaland, Salisburj- {MarsliaU), 2 S ; Cape Colont, 

 Transkei {Miss F. Barrett), 2 $ type. E^cp. 38 millim. 



*1357. Polia magellaiia. (Plate LXXXIII. fig. 3.) 



Dianthoecia mageUcnm, Mab. Bull. Soc. Philom. (7) ix. p. 64 (1885); id. 

 N. Arch. Mus. (3) i. p. 152, pi. xi. f. 0. 



S . Head and thorax grey-brown mixed with black and some 

 red, especially on patagia, which are somewhat irrorated with black : 

 abdomen grey-brown, the anal tuft tinged with ochreous. Fore 

 wing grey-brown irrorated with black and slightly with pale 

 rufous ; subbasal line double, black filled in with grey, and slightly 

 waved from costa to submedian fold ; antemedial line double, 

 black filled in with grey, nearly straight but incurved to inner 

 margin ; claviform short, rounded, bro\Mi defined by black ; orbi- 

 cular and reniform with rufous centres and grey annuli defined by 

 black, the former round ; a waved blackish medial shade ; post- 

 medial line double, black filled in with grey, minutely waved, bent 

 outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then strongly incurved ; 

 subterminal line white defined b)" black marks before and beyond 

 it, angled outwards at vein 7 and dentate at veins 4, 3 ; a terminal 

 series of black points; cilia chequered brown and black. Hind 

 wing whitish, the veins and terminal area suffused with fuscons ; 

 the underside whitish irrorated with fuscous, a dark discoidal 

 point. 



Hab. Patagonia, Santa Cruz, type t 6 in Mus. Paris. Exp. 

 34 millim. 



