186 



NOCTTriDJi;. 



base of cell ; a waved subbasal lino from costa to submedian fold ; 

 antemedial line double filled in with white, oblique, waved : clavi- 

 form with its extremity defined by black ; orbicular and reniform 

 with fuscous-brown centres and whitish aunuli detined by black, the 

 former small, round ; postmedial line defined by whitish on outer 

 side, dentate, indistinctly double towards inner margin, bent out- 

 wards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then incurved ; subterminal 

 line very ill-defined, whitish, angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved 

 at middle, with blackish patches beyond it at discal and submedian 

 folds ; a fine waved terminal line ; cilia chequered black and white. 

 Hind wing semiliyaliue white, the apical area and termen to vein 2 

 tinged with brown ; the underside with the costal area slightly 

 irrorated with brown. 



Ilab. Guatemala, S. (leronimo {Champion)^ 1 § type, Godman- 

 Salvin Coll. Exy. 28 millim. 



1392. Polia alboguttata. (Plate LXXXIII. fig. 25.) 



Mamestra alboguttata, Grote, Bull. Buff. Soe. Nat. Sci. iii. p. 85 (1877) ; 

 Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 126. 



$ . Head and thorax black mixed with white, the head mostly 

 Avhite, the patagia and metathorax with white patches; abdomen 

 fuscous brown, with whitish segmental rings ; pectus, legs, and 

 ventral surface of abdomen yellowish white irrorated with brown. 

 Pore wing black, suffused with silvery blue on veins of inner half 

 and on antemedial and postmedial areas ; subbasal line black, defined 

 by white on outer side, angled outwards at median nervure and 

 ending at submedian fold ; antemedial line defined by white on 

 outer side, oblique, waved, angled inwards on vein 1 ; claviform 

 obscurely defined by black ; orbicular and reniform defined by black, 

 the former small, round, the latter with brownish centre and white 

 annulus ; postmedial line defined on outer side by whitish and 

 some rufous at submedian fold, dentate, bent outwards below costa, 

 excurved to vein 4, then incurved, some white points beyond it on 

 costa; subterminal line white, defined on inner side by some dentate 

 black marks at middle, angled outwards at v<;in 7, excurved at 

 middle and to tornus ; a terminal series of black points ; cilia 

 chequered black and white. Hind wing whitish, the veins, costal 

 and terminal areas tinged with fuscous ; the underside irrorated 

 and the terminal area suffused with brown, a small discoidal spot. 



Hah. U.S.A., Oregon, 1 $ type, California, New Mexico. Exp. 

 32 millim. 



1393. Polia erecta. (Plate LXXXIII. fig. 26.) 



Celmna erecta, Wlk. x. 264 (1856) ; Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 127. 

 Perif/m const ipata, Wlk. xi. 734 (1857). 



Ferigmphn inne.ra, Grote, Bull. Buff. See. Nat. Sci. ii. p. 123 (1874). 

 Anthophita erecta. Druce, Biol. Centr.-Am., Het. ii. p. 499 (nee Wlk.). 



Head and thorax reddish brown, the scales tipped with white ; 

 abdomen grey-brown. Fore wing reddish brown thickly irrorated 



