1()7 



*1362. Polia longiclava. (Plate LXXXTII. fig. 7.) 



Mamestra longiclava, Smith, Pr. U.S. Nat. Mus. xiv. p. 265 ; id. Cat. Noct. 

 N. Am. p. J 28. 



S . Head and thorax grey-white mixed with fuscous and some 

 brown ; tegulse with blackish line near tips ; patagia edged with 

 blackish ; tarsi banded with black ; abdomen grey tinged with pale 

 reddish brown. Fore wing narrow, grey-white irrorated with 

 fuscous : the costal area from subbasal to postmedial line and 

 to median nervure suffused with fuscous ; a black streak below 

 base of cell ; the subbasal line represented by a black striga from 

 costa ; the antemedial line very indistinct, excurved below cell ; 

 claviform defined by blackish above and at extremity, elongate and 

 extending nearly to postmedial line ; orbicular and reniform with 

 brown centres and white annuli, the former oblique elliptical, 

 defined by black, the latter defined on inner side only ; postmedial 

 line represented by a black striga from costa and slight streaks on 

 the veins, bent outwards below costa and oblique below vein 4, the 

 costa beyond it dark with white points ; subterminal line whitish, 

 defined on inner side by slight dentate brown marks, the area 

 beyond it darker with black streaks on the veins and in submedian 

 fold, angled outwards at vein 7, incurved at discal and submedian 

 folds and excurved at middle ; cilia chequered brown and grey. 

 Hind wing white, the veins and terminal area tinged with brown ; 

 cilia white with a brown line through them ; the underside with 

 the costal and terminal areas irrorated with fuscous, a discoidal 

 point. 



Hab. U.S.A., Colorado, in U.S. Nat. Mus. Exy. 30 millim. 



*1363. Polia doira. 



Mamestra doira, Strec-k. Li'p. Rhop. & Het., Suppl. i. p. 7 (1898) ; Dyar, 

 Cat. Lep. N. Am. p. 156. 



Head and thorax pale grey ; tegulae and patagia with slightly 

 darker edges ; abdomen white. Fore wing pale grey, the band on 

 costa whitish ; a subbasal line ending on the short streak below 

 cell ; antemedial line indistinct, double filled in with white ; orbi- 

 cular and reniform with white annuli ; postmedial line indistinct, 

 double filled in with white ; subterminal line white defined by 

 fuscous ; a prominent white streak from reniform above vein 5 to 

 the oblique whitish shade from apex ; a large oval white spot 

 before tornus between veins 1 and 2 ; the veins on postmedial 

 area streaked with brown or black; a fine black terminal line; 

 cilia chequered brown and white. Hind wing white, the veins 

 and termen slightly tinged with brown ; the female with traces of 

 discoidal spot and postmedial line. 



Hah. U.S.A., Utah. Exp. 27 millim. This species is unknown 

 to me. 



