NEPHELODES. — POLIODES. 



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Graphiphora suhdohns. Wlk. x. 405 (lS5fi). 



Mo7iosca subnotuta, Wlk. Cliar. Uiidescr. Het. p. 29 (18G9). 



Head and thorax bright rufous with a purplisli tinge ; tarsi 

 banded with fuscous ; abdomen ochreous tinged with rufous. Pore 

 wing pale rufous suffused with rosy purplish, the area between the 

 medial and postmedial lines deep rufous except costal and inner 

 areas : subbasal line represented by a pale striga on costa : ante- 

 medial line oblique, waved, excurved in submedian interspace ; 

 medial line rather diffused, oblique, excurved in cell ; orbicular and 

 reniform of the ground-colour, well developed, the former rounded, 

 very indistinctly defined ; postmedial line minutely waved, bent 

 outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then incurved, some pale 



Fig. 94. — Ncphelodes cmmedonia, ^ \. 



points beyond it on costa; subterminal line more or less strongly 

 defined by fuscous on inner side, minutely dentate, angled outwards 

 at vein 7 and excurved at middle; a terminal series of minute 

 points sometimes present. Hind wing yellowish suffused with 

 brown, rather more strongly towax'ds termen ; the cilia pinkish ; 

 the underside yellowish more or less strongly tinged with pink, a 

 dark discoidal lunule and curved postmedial line. 



Ab. 1. violans. Head, thorax, and fore wing more purjile and 

 without the red tones. 



Hah. Canad.v {Norman), 1 J, 1 $, Nova Scotia {Redman)^ 2 c? , 

 1 § ; AV. Canada, Orilla (Bush), 3 c? type, expansa ; U.S.A., 

 E. States, 5 c? , 3 $ , type violans. New York, 1 $ , Hlinois, 1 $ , 

 Virginia ; hab. ign. 1 S type subdolens, 1 2 type suhnotata. Exp. 

 40-58 millim. 



Larva. Head dark brown, unmarked. Body uniformly cylin- 

 drical, grey-brown ; dorsal and subdorsal lines broad, straight, pale 

 yellow; sides paler, with a faint diffuse pale lateral line. Sub- 

 stigmatal band broad, even, pale yellow, the subventral region and 

 venter pale. Feet black at base. Feeds on grass, etc. — H. G. D. 



Genus POLIODES, nov. 



Type, T.JlavideniuIa. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi obliquely upturned, the 1st and 2nd joints 

 fringed with long Imir in front, the 3rd moderate, porrect ; frons stnooth ; 

 eyes large, roiuided, overhmig by long cilia ; head and thorax clothed with 

 scales and hair; antennae of male ciliated; vertex of head tufted; teguliB 

 dorsally produced into a sharp ridge; pro- and nietathorax with spreading 

 crests ; tibia fringed with hair ; abdoioen w ith dorsal scries of crcsts and 



