174 >-UCTL'IDJE. 



whitish subterrainal striga above tornus ; cilia fuscous at base, 

 white at tips ; the underside whitish irrorated thickly with brown, 

 a discoidal spot, sinuous postraedial line, and some terminal lunules. 

 Hah. W. China, Ta-chien-lu (Pratt), 1 $ type. Exp. 34 

 millim, 



1373. Polia psittacus. 



Mamestra psittacus, Herr.-Schiiff. Aiissereur. Schmett. p. 80, f. 216 



(1850) ; Druce, Biol. Centr.-Am., Het. i. p. 293. 

 VaUeria jocom, Scliaus, Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. x.xi. p. 230 (1894) ; Druce, 



Biol. Centr.-Am., Het. ii. p. 487. 



Head and thorax bright moss-green with a few brown scales; 

 palpi blackish at side ; pectus and legs ochreous, the latter banded 

 with black ; abdomen dark brown, the anal tuft and ventral surface 

 ochreous white. Fore wing bright golden green ; some of the veins 

 with purplish streaks ; the subbasal line represented by double 

 black strioe from ensta, and a green striga below cell on a black- 

 brown patch which emits a spur above inner margin ; the ante- 

 medial line represented by double black striae from costa, then 

 single, oblique, irregularly waved, and angled inwards on vein 1 ; 

 the medial area suffused with black from subcostal nervure to vein 

 1 ; the orbicular and reniform green, the former small, round, with 

 blackish centre, the latter with its centre slightly defined by 

 blackish ; postmedial line dentate, bent outwards below costa, 

 excurved to vein 4, then incurved and strongly angled outwards 

 on vein 1, the costa beyond it black with pale points ; the suh- 

 terminal line consisting of a series of black lunules which are 

 small except those below costa and in discal and submedian folds, 

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

 terminal series of black lunules, the cilia intersected with black. 

 Hind wing dark reddish brown ; the cilia ochreous, with a fuscous 

 line through them ; the underside ochreous, the costal area irrorated 

 with fuscous, a small discoidal lunule and dentate postmedial line 

 with the area beyond it irrorated with fuscous. 



Hab. Mexico, Jalapa (Trujillo, Boe<je), 1 J , 2 $ ; Guatemala, 

 S. Geronimo ( Champion), 1 (S ; Costa IIica, Irazu ( Ror/ers), 1 cJ , 

 Godman-Salvin Coll. ; Venezuela. Exj). 30-34 millim. Type t 

 jocosa in Coll. Schaus. 



1374. Polia pictula. 



Bianthmcia pictula. White, Taylor's New Zealand, pi. i. f. 3 (1855); 



Hudson, New Zealand Motbs and Butterflies, p. 19 pi. 4. f. 37. 

 Mamestra rhadopleuru , Meyr. Trans. N. Z. Inst, xix. p. 19 (1886). 



S . Head and thorax black, the scales tipped with grey ; vertex 

 of head, basal joint of antennae, lines near extremity of tegulae, and 

 upper edge of patagia and the dorsal ridge of thorax golden yellow; 

 pectus with some pink hair ; tibiae banded with yellow ; tarsi with 

 pale rings ; abdomen black, the hairs tipped with grey, the dorsal 

 crests yellow, broad subdorsal pink stripes except on terminal 

 segment. Fore wing black suffused with leaden grey or rarely with 



