POLIA. 199 



Austria, Zeller Coll. ; Hungaky, Zeller and D'Emmick Colls. ; Swit- 

 zerland, Frey Coll. ; Italy ; Dalmatia ; Scandinavia ; Lapland, 

 Leech Coll. ; Russia, Sarepta, Zeller and Fray Colls., Urals ; Armenia ; 

 Asia Minor, Pontus, Taurus ; Syria, 1 c3" ; Persia; W.Turkestan, 

 Turcomania, Saisau, Ferghana, Issyk-kul, Ala-Tau ; W. Siberia, 

 Altai ; E. Turkestan, Hi. Exp. 30-40 millim. 

 Larva. Feeds on Si.lene rudans. 7-8. 



1412. Polia tephroleuca. 



Bianthoecia tephroleuca, Boiscl. Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. 1833, p. 374, pi. 14. 

 f. 4 ; Dup. Lep. Fr., Suppl. iii. p. 244, pi. 22. f. 5 ; Herr.-Schaff. Eur. 

 Schmett., Noct. fP. 140, 469 ; Stand. Oat. Lep. pal. p. 162. 



c? . Head and thorax grey mixed with fuscous brown ; tegulse 

 with black medial line ; tarsi ringed with white ; abdomen grey- 

 brown. Fore wing grey-white suftused and irrorated with fuscous 

 brown; subbasal line double, waved, from costa to submediau fold; 

 antemedial line double, waved, filled in with whitish ; claviform 

 very small, defined by Ijlack ; orbicular and reniform small, with 

 brown centres and grey-white annuli defined by black, the former 

 round ; an indistinct waved medial line ; postmediai line dentate, 

 defined on outer side by grey-white lunules, bent outwards below 

 costa and strongly incurved below vein 4, some white points 

 beyond it on costa ; subterminal line grey-white, defined on inner 

 side by small dentate blackish marks, angled outwards at vein 7, 

 excurved and somewhat dentate at veins 4, 3 ; a terminal series of 

 small black lunules. Hind wing pale suffused with fuscous brown, 

 the terminal area darker; cilia whitish, with a brown line through 

 them ; the underside pale suffused with brown, a slight discoidal 

 spot and curved postmediai line, a diffused subterminal band. 

 Hah. Switzerland {Gerhard), 1 6 . Exp. 32 millim. 



1413. Polia pumila. (Plate LXXXIV. fig. 4.) 



Dianthcecia ■pumila, Stand. Ilor. Soc. Eut. Ross. xiv. p. 378 (1879) ; id. 

 Cat. Lep. pal. p. 164. 



Head and thorax grey mixed with brown and black ; tegulae 

 with black medial line ; abdomen grey mixed with brown. Foro 

 wing whitish, largely suffused and irrorated with brown ; subbasal 

 line double, waved, filled in with whitish, from costa to submedian 

 fold ; antemedial line indistinctly dou])le, filled in with whitish, 

 waved, angled inwards on vein 1 ; claviform short or moderate, 

 defined by black ; orbicular and reniform whitish, with brown centre 

 and defined by black, the former rounded, tlie latter slightly concave 

 on inner side ; traces of a medial line ; postmediai line double filled 

 in with whitish, minutely dentate, bent outwards below costa and 

 oblique below vein 4, some pale points beyond it on costa ; sub- 

 terminal line white, defined on inner side by slight dentate black 

 marks below costa and at middle, excurved at vein 7 and at veins 

 4 and 3 ; a terminal series of small black lunules. Hind wing 



