188 



NOCTUID^f;. 



l;395. Polia rugosa. (Plate LXXXIII. fig. -27.) 



Mamestra ritgosa, Morr. Prop. Bost. Soe, Nat. Hist, xviii. n. 110 (1875) ; 

 Smith, Ciit. Noct. N. Am. p. 128. 



$ . Head and thorax whitish with a few black-hrowu hairs and 

 scales ; abdomen clothed with dark brown and whitish scales. Fore 

 wing whitish, slightly suffused and irrorated with dark brown ; 

 the area below base of cell irrorated with some large black scales ; 

 subbasal and antemedial lines obsolete ; claviform moderate, 

 incompletclj' defined by black ; orbicular and reniform white with 

 brownish centres, defined by the cell before and between them being 

 black, the former obli(|ue oblong, open above and below, the latter 

 oblong, its lower extremity angled inwards on median nervure and 

 confluent with former ; postmedial line indistinct, pale, minutely 

 waved, bent outwards below costa and oblique below vein 4, the 

 area before it below the cell suffused with black ; subterminal line 

 pale, angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at middle, defined on 

 inner side by dentate black spots except towards costa, the area 

 beyond it suffused with dark brown : a terminal series of small 

 black Innules. Hind wing pale suffused with red-brown, the 

 terminal area tinged with fuscous ; the underside paler, a dark 

 diseoidal lunule and diffused subterminal band. 



Hah. U.S.A., Maine, 1 $ . Ex^). 'SI millim, 



1396. Polia marinitincta. (Plate LXXXIII. fig. 'IS.) 



Mamestra viarbiitinda, Harv. Bull. Buff. Soc. Nat. Sci. ii. p. '278 (1875) ; 

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



Head and thorax white mixed with some blackish scales, the 

 latter tinged with blue-green ; palpi and frons black at sides ; 

 tegula) with medial black line, patagia edged with black ; tarsi 

 banded with black ; abdomen fuscous. Fore wing whitish or pale 

 brownish grey more or less tinged with green and the medial area 

 with black ; a sinuous black streak below base of cell : subbasal 

 line black defined by whitish on outer side, angled outwards on 

 median nervure, from costa to vein 1 ; antemedial line double filled 

 in with whitish, the outer line strong, oblique from costa to sub- 

 median fold, angled slightly outwards below costa and strongly on 

 vein 1 ; claviform small, defined by black ; orbicular and reniform 

 small, whitish defined by black, the former rather oblique elliptical ; 

 an indistict waved medial line obliijue from costa to below cell ; 

 postmedial line dentate, bent outwards below costa, excurved to 

 vein 4, then incurved, a blackish streak beyond it on vein 2 and 

 some white points on costa ; subterminal line represented by a 

 series of more or less developed dentate black and white marks, 

 defined on inner side by an oblique black shade from costa, angled 

 outwards at vein 7 and slightly excurved at middle ; a terminal 

 series of small black lunules ; cilia chequered black and white. 

 Hind wing fuscous black ; cilia white with a dark line through 



