170 NOCTUIDi. 



!J<(h. Bkjtain, Leech Coll. ; I'kauck, Sand Coll. ; Germany, 

 Zeller and JFrey Colls. ; Switzerland, Frey Coll. ; Sicily, Zeller 

 Coll. : Greece, Leech Coll. ; Crete ; S. Sweden ; Asia Minor, 

 Pontus, Brussa, Zeller Coll. ; Syria, Leech Coll. ; Persia ; W. 

 Turkestan, Turcomania, Saisan, Issyk-kul, Ferghana, Sarawschan ; 

 China, 1 (S , Leech Coll. ; Kashmir, Goorais Valley {Leech) 1 S , 

 (Filcher) 1 ? . Ex2). 32-36 millim. 



Larva. Meyr. Brit. Lep. p. 82; Barrett, Lep. Brit. iv. p. 218, pi. 161. f. 1. 



Pale dull green or yellowish irrorated with brown ; dorsal line 

 pale with dark edges ; lateral line dark, indistinct ; spiracles black ; 

 head ochreous brown or dull greenish. Food-plants; flowers of 

 Sonchiis and Lactuca. 7-8. 



1367. Polia maderse. (Plate LXXXIII. fig. 9.) 



Mamedra maderie, Baker, Trans. Ent. See. 1891, p, 205, pi. 12. f. 3; 

 Stand. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 160. 



J . Head and thorax grey-white mixed with dark brown and 

 black ; palpi blackish with some white ; antennae and tarsi black 

 ringed with white ; abdomen grey mixed with dark brown. Fore 

 wing grey thickly irrorated with fuscous ; the medial area suffused 

 with brown except towards costa and inner margin ; subbasal line 

 double, black filled in with white, waved and angled inwards below 

 cell and on vein 1 ; claviform large, whitish defined by black except 

 above ; orbicular and reniform whitish defined by black, the former 

 round, the latter somewhat angled inwards on median nervure ; a 

 waved medial line oblique below the cell ; postmedial line defined 

 by white on outer side, dentate, bent outwards below costa and 

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

 subterminal line whitish defined by small dentate black marks 

 on inner side, angled outwards at vein 7 and dentate at veins 4, 3 ; 

 a terminal series of Idack points ; cilia fuscous intersected with 

 grey. Hind wing whitish tinged with brown, the veins and 

 terminal area fuscous ; slight greyish marks on termen towards 

 tornus ; cilia grey with a brown line through them ; the underside 

 white, the costal and terminal areas irrorated with brown, a slight 

 discoidal lunule and waved postmedial line. 



Hah. Madeira (Wollaston), 1 J type. Krj^. 36 millim. 



1368. Polia serena. 



KocitM serena, Schiff. Wien. Verz. p. 84 (1776) ; Esp. Sclimett. iv. pi. 166. 



f. 4; Hiibn. Eur. Schmett., Noct. f. 64; Dup. Lep. Fr. Vu pi. 98. f. 3; 



Stepb. 111. Brit. Ent., Ilaust. iii. p. ;{3; Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 160. 

 Nocfiia placida, Esp. Schmett. pi. 166. ff. b, 6 (1789). 

 Nocfua hieracii, Scriba, Beitr. Ins. p. 195, pi. 13. ff. 1, 2 (1793). 

 Mamestra monficola, Dup. Lep. Fr. vi. p. 315, pi. 92. f. 4 (1826). 

 Polia Corsica, Eambr. A?in. Soe. Ent. Fr. 1832, p. 279, pi. 9. f. 3. 

 Polia leuconota, Ev. Bull. Mcsc. See. 1837, p. 39. 

 Mamestra hicolorafa. Led. Noct. p. 32 (1857). 

 Hecatera intermedin, Wlk. xv. 17H) (1858\ 

 Mamestra ohsrura. Stand. Cat. cd. 1, p. 40 (1S61). 



