166" XOCTUID^. 



brown ; cilia whitish and brown ; the underside white irrorated 

 with brown, a discoidal spot and curved waved postmedial line. 



Eah. U.S.A., Colorado, California, Argus Mts., in Coll. J. B. Smith. 

 Exp. 36 millim. 



*1360. Polia stretchi. (Plate LXXXIII. fig. 5.) 



Scotogramma stretchii, H. Edw. Can. Ent. xix. p. 146 (1887) ; Smith, Oat. 

 Noct. N. Am. p. 130. 



S • Head, thorax, and abdomen brown mixed with gre)- ; tarsi 

 fuscous with pale rings. Fore wing pale gre3ish thickly irrorated 

 with dark brown and black ; traces of a subbasal line from costa to 

 submedian fold ; antemedial line rather indistinct, oblique, waved, 

 angled inwards on vein 1 ; claviform represented by a small blackish 

 mark ; orbicular and reniform rather indistinctly defined by black, 

 the former round ; an indistinct medial shade ; postmedial line 

 minutely dentate, bent outwards below costa and incurved below 

 vein 4; subterminal line represented by a series of slight dark 

 marks in the interspaces ; a terminal series of small black spots. 

 Hind wing whitish irrorated with brown, the terminal area suff'used 

 with brown ; the underside whiter, with small discoidal lunule and 

 curved postmedial line. 



Hab. U.S.A., Colorado desert, in Coll. J. B. Smith. Exp. '32 

 millim. 



1361. Polia palilis. (Plate LXXXIII. fig. 6.) 



Dianthcecia palilis, Harv. Bull. BuflP. Soc. Kat. Sci. ii. p. 273 (1875) ; 

 Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 202. 



S . Head and thorax white with a slight brown tinge ; sides of 

 palpi and frons black ; patagia with some black scales above ; tarsi 

 banded with black ; abdomen brownish white. Fore wing white, 

 tinged in places wdth ochreous and irrorated with some large 

 fuscous scales, the terminal area slightly tinged with fuscous 

 narrowing to above tornus ; subbasal line indistinct, waved, from 

 costa to submedian fold ; antemedial line indistinct, waved, erect ; 

 orbicular and reniform very indistinctly defined, with some fuscous 

 scales at centre, the former small, round : a diffused medial fuscous 

 shade expanding into a patch in cell between the stigmata ; post- 

 medial line rather indistinct, dentate, bent outwards below costa, 

 excurved to vein 4, then strongly incurved, some pale points beyond 

 it on costa ; subterminal line very indistinct, defined by fuscous 

 marks on innei side at costa and below vein 2 and on outer side in 

 discal fold, slightly angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at 

 middle ; a terminal series of dark points. Hind wing pure white ; 

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

 black discoidal point. 



$ . Head and thorax tinged with fuscous ; fore wing much more 

 sufi'uscd with fuscous, especially on antemedial, medial, and terminal 

 areas ; hind wing sufi'uscd with fuscous. 



Hah. U.S.A., Texas, 1^,1? type. Exp. 30-32 millim. 



