POLIA. 193 



brown discoidal point and rathe^ broad terminal band ; cilia 

 chequered brown and yellow ; the underside with the costal and 

 terminal areas suffused with brown, a discoidal lunule. 



Hah. Scandinavia, Lapland, 1 ^S '■> Arctic llussiA; N.E.Siberia. 

 Exp. 32 niillim. 



1405. Polia secedens. (Plate LXXXIY. fig. 2.) 

 Phisia secedens, Wlk. xii. 913 (1857) ; Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 294. 



S . Head and thorax black-brown mixed with white scales and 

 hairs ; abdomen dark brown with the dorsal crests blackish. Fore 

 wing dark brown slightly irrorated with white; an indistinct waved 

 black subbasal line from eosta to submedian fold ; an oblique 

 slightly waved antemedial line ; claviform with its extremity 

 defined by black ; orbicular and reniform rather small, the former 

 round, the latter open above and below ; postmedial line somewhat 

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

 incurved; subterminal line represented by a series of dentate black 

 marks defined by white scales on inner side ; cilia intersected 

 with white. Hind wing bright yellow, the costal and terminal 

 areas dark brown with diffused edges ; cilia yellow at tips ; the 

 underside with brown discoidal lunule conjoined to the costal 

 area. 



Hah. Canada, Hudson's Bay, St. Martin's Falls (Dr. Barnston)^ 

 1 (5 type. Exp. 32 millim. 



b. {Hm-modia.) Abdomen of female with the extremity 

 produced and conical, the ovipositor exserted. 

 a\ Fore wing with the subterminal line strongly dentate 

 on veins 4, 3 and forming a distinct ^-mark. 

 a}. Fore wing with the reniform strongly angled inwards 

 on median nervure and connected with the orbi- 

 cular or nearly so cucubali. 



b"^. Fore wing with the reniform well separated from tlie 

 orbicular. 

 a^. Fore wing with the orbicular oblique elliptical ... bicruris. 

 b^. Fore wing with the orbicular rounded. 



a'. Fore wing with the antemedial line oblique, 



double carpu'phaga. 



6'. Fore wing with the antemedial line erect, single, lijpru. 

 b^. Fore wing with the subterminal line not forming a 

 ^-niark on veins 4, 3. 

 a^. Fore wing without white patch on medial area. 



a^. Fore wing with the groimd-colour olive-brown ... maynolii. 

 b^. Fore wing with the ground-colour grey and dark 

 brown, 

 a'*. Fore wing with orange fulvous on ante- and 



postmedial areas Jiligramma. 



i'. Fore wing without orange fulvous on ante- and 

 postmedial areas. 

 fl°. Fore wing with the postmedial line incurved 



below vein 4 tephrolenca. 



¥. Fore wing with the postmedial line oblique 



below vein 4 pvmihi. 



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