POLIA. 185 



yellowish tinge, most prominent below cell ; siibbasal line double 

 filled in with white or yellowish, ending at vein 1 ; antemedial line 

 double filled in with white or yellowish, interrupted, waved, some- 

 what oblique ; claviform large, defined by blackish ; orbicular and 

 reuiform with fuscous centres and whitish aunuli defined by black, 

 the former small, round, the latter moderate and somewhat con- 

 stricted at middle; postmedial line double filled in with yellowish 

 or reddish, minutely waved and produced to white points on the 

 veins, bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then oblique ; 

 subtermiual line whitish, defined on each side by fuscous, irregular ; 

 a terminal series of black points ; cilia pale intersected with fuscous. 

 Hind wing white, the veins and fine terminal line fuscous, in female 

 almost wholly tinged with fuscous, darker on terminal area ; the 

 underside with the costal area irrorated with fuscous, the female 

 with postm-.'dial line. 



Hah. U.S.A., Colorado, Estes Park. Exj^. 29-33 millim. This 

 species is unknown to me ; figured from a drawing from type iu 

 U.S. Nat. Mus. 



*1390. Polia ciniva. (Plate LXXXIII. fig. 24.) 



Mamestra ciniva, Schaus, J. N.Y. Ent. Soc. vi. p. 142 (1898) ; Druce, 

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



5 . Head and thorax mixed black, brown, and white ; teguhe 

 with strong black line near tips ; tarsi banded black and white ; 

 abdomen brown irrorated with grey, dorsally white irrorated with 

 brown. Pore wing bluish white, thickly irrorated with black and 

 suflused in parts with grey ; antemedial line double at costa, then 

 single, oblique to submedian fold and angled inwards on vein 1 ; 

 claviform small, defined by black ; orbicular and reniform defined 

 by black, the former small, round ; postmedial line rather indistinct, 

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

 incurved ; subterminal line ill-defined, irregular, with a blackish 

 patch beyond it above tornus wdth two white points on it; cilia 

 white with fuscous lines through them. Hind wing semihyaline 

 white, the veins and marginal areas tinged with fuscous ; the 

 underside with the costal and terminal areas irrorated with fuscous, 

 a small discoidal spot. 



Hah. Mexico, Oaxaca, typef $ in Coll. Schaus. Exp. 24 millim. 



1391. Polia hodeva. 



Hccatera hodeva, Druce, Biol. Centr.-Aiu., Ilet. i. i). L"J1, pi. 27. f. 21 

 (1889). 



2 . Head and thorax clothed with pale brown, white, and black 

 scales; tarsi banded with black; abdomen i)ale brown, the ventral 

 surface white irrorated with black. Fore wing white, tinged in 

 parts with pale brown and thickly irrorated with black, the medial 

 area suffused with black except on inner area; a black fascia below 



