180 >'ocjuiDj!:, 



*13S1. Polia vau-media. 



Mamestra vau-media, Smith, Pr. U.S. Nat. Mus. x. p. 466 (1887) ; id. Cat. 

 Noct. N. Am. p. 126. 



(S . Head and thorax grey largely mixed with fuscous ; abdomen 

 fuscous grey. Fore wing dark fuscous grey, the postmedial area 

 paler, tinged Avith reddish ; subbasal line indistinct ; antemedial 

 line double, remote from base, even, obliquely curved ; claviform 

 represented by a blackish mark ; orbicular and reniform small, 

 almost obsolete; postmedial line indistinctly double, slightly curved, 

 incurved below vein 5 and almost touching antemedial line at inner 

 margin ; subterminal line pale, irregular, indistinct ; a pale spot 

 near tornus. Hind wing fuscous, paler at base ; the underside grey 

 with darker irroration. 



Hah. U.S.A., Colorado. Exp. 23 millim. This species is 

 unknown to me. 



1382. Polia subpicta. (Plate LXXXIII. fig. 19.) 



Mamestra suhpict a, Scbaus, J. N.Y. Ent. Soc. tI. p. Ill (1898); Druce, 

 Biol. Centr.-Am., Het. ii. p. 567. 



S . Head and thorax black mixed with grey and some pale 

 brown ; tarsi with pale rufous rings, the terminal part of hind 

 tibiae and the tarsi rufous ; abdomen black irrorated with grey, the 

 crests rufous at tips, the anal tuft and ventral surface rufous. Fore 

 wing leaden black slightly irrorated with grey, the ante- and post- 

 medial areas mostly pale brown irrorated with black ; an indistinct 

 waved whitish subbasal line from costa to vein 1 ; a double, waved 

 antemedial line filled in with pale brownish, angled inwards in cell 

 and with the minute claviform on its outer edge ; orbicular and 

 reniform small, brownish defined by black, the former round ; an 

 indistinct oblique line from lower angle of cell to inner margin ; 

 postmedial line bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then 

 incurved, with short black streaks beyond it on the veins crossing 

 the pale brown area and some pale points on costa ; subterminal 

 line represented by an ill-deiined series of black and pale brownish 

 dentate marks, slightly angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at 

 middle ; a series of small black spots before termen ; cilia slightly 

 chequered with pale brown. Hind wing black-brown, the cilia 

 yellow at ti})s except at apex. The underside whitish, suffused and 

 irrorated in parts with pink and fuscous : fore wing with black 

 striga from middle of costa, blackish reniform and sinuous post- 

 medial line, the apical half of terminal area black ; hind wing with 

 black medial band from costa to mediai] nervure angled inwards in 

 cell, a deep black discoidal spot and indistinct minutely waved 

 postmedial line. 



IJab. Mexico, Orizaba, 1 J , type f S in Coll. Schaus. Exp. 

 24 millim. 



