178 NOCXUID^. 



1379. Polia lorea. (Plate LXXXIII. fig. 17.) 



Hydrcecia lorea, Guen. Noct. i. p. 126 (1852); Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. 



p. 127. 

 Hildrcecia ligata, Wlk. Can. Nat. & Geol. v. p. 253 (1860). 

 Mamestra dodgei, Grote, Can. Ent. vii. p. 90 (1875). 



Head and thorax rufous with some dark brown scales ; abdomen 

 pale rufous irrorated with brown. Fore wing pale rufous irrorated 

 with darker rufous, the medial area suffused with deep rufous 

 except towards costa and inner margin ; the veins streaked with 

 brown ; an indistinct waved subbasal line from costa to submedian 

 fold ; antemedial line waved, angled outwards below costa, oblique 

 to submedian fold, then erect ; claviform small, with very indistinct 

 dark outline ; orbicular and reniforra with greyish annuli defined 

 by dark brown, the former rather oblique, elliptical, the latter with 

 some fuscous in its lower part ; an indistinct waved medial line 

 oblique from costa to lower angle of cell, where it is angled ; post- 

 medial line bent outwards below costa, oblique and very slightly 

 sinuous below vein 5 ; subterminal line indistinct, pale slightly 

 defined by brown on inner side, angled outwards at vein 7 and 

 excurved at middle ; a fine dark terminal line. Hind wing fuscous 

 brown with a yellowish tinge ; the cilia yellow ; the underside 

 yellow irrorated with brown, a dark discoidal point and curved 

 postmedial line. 



Hah. Canada {Norman), 1 S , Renfrew Co., 4 cT , 1 § , Calgary 

 (Wolhif-Bod), 1 d", 1 $; U.S.A., E., Middle, and Central States 

 (Doubleday), 2 c? type, Massachusetts, Beverly, 2 d" , Buffalo, 1 c? , 

 New York, Evan's Centre, 1 $ , Nebraska, Kansas (Snow), 1 c? » 

 1 2 , Colorado. Exj}. 32-36 millim. 



Larva. Beuten, Cau. Ent. xxii. p. 16. 



Head black with sordid whitish markings ; body sordid creamy 

 brown, the thorax blackish ; dorsum with a series of lozenge-shaped 

 segmentary blackish patches and ill-defined oblique stripes on the 

 sides ; vertex whitish ; tubercles minute ; thoracic feet brown. — 

 H. G. D. 



1380. Polia olivacea. (Plate LXXXIII. fig, 18.) 



Mamestra olivacea, Morr. Proc. Bost. Soc. N. H. xvii. p. 143 (1874); 



Grote, Bull. Geol. Surv. iii. p. 797 (1877); Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. 



p. 125. 

 Mamestra comis, Grote, Can. Ent. xiii. p. 130 (1881). 

 Mamestra obscurior, Smith, Pr. U.S. Nat. Mus. x. p. 465 (1887). 

 Mamestra rectilinea, Smith, Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus. x. p. 465 (1887) ; id. 



Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 125. 

 Celana hamara, Druce, Biol. Centr.-Am., Het. i. p. 275, pi. 26. f. 27 



(1889). 

 Mamestra luciiia, Smith, Traus. Am. Ent. Soc. xxvii. p. 236 (1901). 

 Mamestra altua, Smith, Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. xxvii. p. 236 (1901). 

 Mamestra mvgarena. Smith, Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. xxvii. j). 236 (1901). 

 Mamestra davena, Smith, Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. xxvii. p. 237 (1901). 

 Mamestra ohnigra. Smith, Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. xxvii. p. 238 (1901). 

 Mamestra fetiia, Smith, Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. xxvii. p. 239 (1901). 



Head and thorax olive-brown mixed with grey and black ; 



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