THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 
JULY 21879. 
VARIETY OF POLIA NIGROCINCTA. 
POLIA NIGROCINOTA (variety). 
We are indebted to Mr. Clarence E. Fry for permission 
to figure this beautiful variety. It is one of some forty speci- 
mens of Polia nigrocincta, bred by Mr. EK G. Meek from larvee 
collected in 1877 by Mr. Pankhurst in the Isle of Man, while he 
was jointly employed by Mr. Fry and Mr. Meek to collect 
Lepidoptera. in that island. The larve were fed up in the 
Isle of Man, but the pupe were transferred to London. No 
particular variety was observed amongst the larve, which were 
fed upon sea-pink (Armeria maritima), and sea-plantain (Plantago 
maritima). The imagines of this species seldom vary either 
in colour or markings. Neither do the other British species in 
the genus Polia, with the exception of the north-eastern form of 
Polia chi, var. olivacea. The variety under notice is so unlike the 
original type as to be difficult to identify. The woodcut gives a 
general idea of the appearance. 
Instead of the usual bright black and white of the superior 
wings, they are suffused with bright orange colour, with here and 
there a small patch of grey. The stigmata are strongly marked, 
the orbicular being filled in with bright sandy red. The usual 
black markings are very pale in colour; in fact dark grey. The 
anterior wings slightly suffused with black round the outer edge. 
Joun T. Carrinervon. 
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