POLIA. 191 



Hah. Br. E, Africa, Nairobi (Betton), 2 $ , Kikuyu {Crcavshay, 

 Betion), 3 d* , 3 $ , Neugia (Crawshai/), 1 $ , Ndimu {Bet ton), 3 j , 

 Morendat (Betton) 1 d' , Nairowa (ZJciion), 1 $ , Kilima-njaro (7/«w- 

 nimjton), 1 $ ; Delagoa Bat (Junod), 1 cJ , 1 $ ; Transvaal, Piet 

 Retief (Crciwshay), 3 J; Natal, Estcourt {Hutchinson), 6^,15, 

 Howick, 1 $, Durban {Leigh), 'S 2; Basutoland, Maseru {Craw- 

 shaij), 3 (5 ; Cape Colony, Kenilworth, 1 (S {Dr. Smith), 6 2 > type 

 and types prcelennissa and depulsa, Knysna {Trimen), 1 (5,2 $ , 

 type contractn, Aunsbaw {31iss F. Barrett), 1 c? , Cape Town 

 {Trimen, Lightfoot), 1 J, 1 5, type ^ciia. -S/a'^^. 26-36 millim. 

 Types t inculta and servilis in Mus. Oxon. 



*1401. Polia goniophora. (Plate LXXXIIT. fig. 32.) 



Alamestra ffoniaphura, Schaus, J. N.Y. Ent. Soc. xi. p. 231 (1903). 



(S . Head and thorax olive-green, some of the scales tipped with 

 white ; palpi blackish at sides ; legs mixed with black and white • 

 abdomen whitish, pale brown, and black. Fore wing olive-green 

 the disk suffused with brown ; a white subbasal line from costa to 

 submedian fold, dentate outwards in cell ; antemedial line repre- 

 sented by white spots on costa and inner margin, then by an obscure 

 dark line with an oblique striga below costa and point on median 

 nervure ; orbicular a small round white spot, reniform an oblique 

 white bar, angled inwards in lower end of cell; postmedial line 

 obscure, dark, dentate, with white spots at costa and inner margin 

 some white points on the portion bent outwards below costa and 

 white points at extremity of teeth on veins 4, 3, 2 ; subterrainal 

 line indistinct, dark, irregular, with white spots on it towards apex, 

 a white spot at inner margin and three white spots beyond it on 

 middle of termen. Hind wing fuscous brown, with some obscure 

 white spots on termen ; the cilia ochreous ; underside whitish 

 irrorated with large black scales, a black discoidal lunule on a 

 rather indistinct medial line, a sinuous postmedial line. 



Hab. Brazil, Castro Parana, type t <S in Coll. Schaus. Kvp 

 28 millim. 



*1402. Polia rudis. (Plate LXXXIV. fig. 1.) 



Pasfona rudis, Wlk. xv. 1754{18.n8). 

 Maguza aUmjidtulis, Wlk. xxxiv. J 224 (1865). 



c? . Head and thorax olive-brown, the hairs pale at base, the 

 scales tipped with white ; tarsi ringed with white ; abdomen dark 

 brown, the ventral surface whitish. Fore wing dark brown irrorated 

 with black and slightly with wliite ; a white spot at base ; a waved 

 white sul)basal line from costa to submedian fold ; an interrupted 

 waved white antemedial line ; orbicular and reniform white, the former 

 small, round, the latter elliptical ; postmedial line represented by a 

 series of wbitc points, bent outwards below costa and obli(iue l)elow 

 vein 4, with larger spots displaced inwards at discal and submedian 

 folds, Hoine white points beyond it on costa; subterniiiuil line 



