1S2 xoctuid.t:. 



dentate, bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then 

 incurved, the costa beyond it with black and white points ; sub- 

 terminal line whitish, defined oji inner side by an oblique black 

 shade from costa, then by some more or less obsolescent dentate 

 marks, angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at middle ; a 

 terminal series of small black lunules ; cilia chequered black and 

 white. Hind wing semihyaline white, the costal area and terraea 

 tinged with fuscous ; cilia with a fuscous line through them ; the 

 underside with the costal area irrorated with fuscous. 



Ab. ] . Fore wing with the whole medial area suffused with 

 black and without the red marks ; orbicular entire. 



Ab. 2. illaudabilis. The green tinge almost entirely replaced by 

 white. 



Ab. 3. Fore wing with the ground-colour white irrorated and 

 suffused with pale rufous. 



Hah. U.S.A., New Jersey, Alabama, 1 S , Florida, 5^,1$ type 

 mdkans, Texas, Dallas {Boll), 1 $ , Colorado, Manitou, 2 J , 

 (Bruce) 1 c? , 1 $ , California, 3 d" , 2 $ type illavdahilis ; Mexico, 

 Jalapa (Hoer/e, Trujillo), 3 d , 3 $ , Cordova {R'umcU), 1 c^ ; 

 Guatemala {Champion), Id, 2 $, Godman-Salvin Coll. Eaj^. 

 26-38 millim. 



Larva. Head small, shagreened, dark reticulate, the vertical 

 bands broad and black. Body sordid and brown, skin pointed 

 granular ; dorsal dark diamond-shaped markings ; dorsal and sub- 

 dorsal lines narrow, pale, the latter edged below by triangular 

 black segmentary marks ; an indistinct pale waved stigmatal line ; 

 substigmatal line broad, pale, ill-defined above. Thoracic feet black- 

 ringed. Spiracles black. — H. G. D. 



*1385. Polia marmica. (Plate LXXXIII. fig. 22.) 



Hecatera marmica, Sehaus, J. N.Y. Eiit. See. vi. p. 112 (1898) ; Druce, 

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



5 . Head and thorax white mixed with black, the head and 

 tegulae tinged with ochreous; tarsi ringed black and white; abdo- 

 men dorsally grey-brown, ventrally white irrorated with brown. 

 Fore wing white, almost wholly suffused with fuscous and irrorated 

 with black, leaving a white patch beyond the subbasal line, which is 

 angled at median nervure and recurved to base above vein 1 and 

 with traces of a similar line beyond it ; antemedial line oblique, 

 waved, angled inwards on vein 1 : claviform with its extremity 

 slightly defined by black ; orbicular and reniform with fuscous 

 centres and greyish annuli defined by black, the former small, 

 oblique ; 'postmedial line dentate, bent outwards below costa, 

 excurved to vein 4, then incurved, a white patch beyond it from 

 vein 2 to inner margin extending to tornus ; subterminal line 

 represented by some small dark dentate marks at middle defined 

 by white on outer side, connected with an apical white patch 

 leaving the medial part of termen fuscous; a terminal series of 

 small l»hick lunulct- ; cilia clic(iuercd black and wliitc. Hind wing 



