POLIA. 195 



Hah. Beitain, Leech Coll. ; France, Sand Coll. ; Germany, Zeller, 

 Frey, and Leech Colls. ; Russia, Livonia, Zeller Coll. ; Armenia ; Asia 

 Minor, Pontus ; Kurdistan ; W. Turkestan, Issyk-kul ; Amur- 

 land, Ussuri ; Japan, Hakodate {Andrexvs), 7 c?, 1 $» Yokohama 

 {Manley, Jonas), 1 c?, 1 $ , Tokio (Maries), 1 d" , Oivvake (Pryer), 

 1 S , Tsuniga (Leech), 1 $ ; China, Chusan (J. J. Walker), 1 c? , 

 Chia-kou-ho (Pratt), 1 c? , Psu-tu-fang, 1 c? type. Exj). 32- 

 36 millim. 



Larva. Meyr. Brit. Lep. p. 79; Barrett, Lep. Brit. iv. p. 238, pi. 163. f. 1. 



Greenish grey tinged with orange and with numerous white dots ; 

 dorsal line brown ; a subdorsal series of oblique brown marks ; 

 head with dark markings. Food-plants : leaves and seed-capsules 

 of Silene and Lychnis. 7-8. 



1407. Polia bicruris. 



Phalfsna bicruris, Hiifn. Berl. Mag. iii. 3, p. 302 (1766). 



Noctua capsincola, Schiff. Wien. Verz. p. 84 (1776); Esp. Schrnett. iv. 



pi. 173. f. 5; Hlibn. Eur. Schmett., Noct. f. 57; Diip. Lep. Fr vi. 



p. 334, pi. 93. f. 6; Stepb. 111. Brit. Eut., Haust. ii. p. 188 ; Stand. Cat. 



Lep. pal. p. 163. 

 Noctua impressa, Esp. Schmett. iv. pi. 152. f. 3 (1788). 



Head and thorax reddish brown mixed with grey and some 

 blackish scales ; tegulne with dark medial line ; tarsi ringed with 

 white ; abdomen pale grey-brown. Fore wing reddish brown 

 irrorated with black and some white scales ; subbasal line double, 

 waved, from costa to submedian fold; some dark scales above inner 

 margin near base ; antemedial line double, waved, angled outwards 

 above inner margin ; claviform large, suffused with black and 

 defined by black ; orbicular and reniform with brown centres and 

 white annuli defined by black, the former rather irregularly oblique 

 elliptical ; an indistinct waved medial line ; postmedial line double, 

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

 strongly incurved, some white points beyond it on costa ; sub- 

 terminal line white, with some diffused fuscous, somewhat dentate 

 marks on its inner side, strongest in submedian fold, angled 

 outwards at vein 7 and dentate at veins 4, 3 : a terminal series of 

 small black lunules defined by whitish ; cilia intersected with 

 white. Hind wing whitish snffused with brown, deepest on 

 terminal area; cilia whitish, with a brown line through them; 

 the underside wliitish irrorated with brown, a discoidal s])ot and 

 curved postmedial and subterrainal lines. 



Hah. Britain, Leech Coll. ; France ; Germany, Zeller and Leech 

 Colls. ; Austria ; Switzerland, Frey Coll. ; Spain ; Italy ; Scan- 

 dinavia ; KussiA, Livonia, Zeller Coll., Crimea; Armenia; W. 

 Turkestan, Issyk-kul ; W. Siberia, Altai. Exp. 30-40 millim. 



Larva. Meyr. Brit. Lep. p. 79 ; Barrett, Lep. Brit. iv. p. 242, pi. 163. f. 2. 



Light brownish ochreous irrorated with brown ; dorsal line pale, 

 indistinct, traversing a series of dark V-shaped marks ; head with 

 dark markings. Food-plants : seed-capsules of Silene and Lychnis, 

 7-9. 



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