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*1215. Polia nasvia. (Plate LXXX. fig. 5.) 



Mamestra ncBvia, Smith, Eut. IJsews Philad. ix. p. 248 (1898) ; Dyar, Cat. 

 Lep. N. Am. p. 156. 



S . Dirty grey suffused with fuscous ; head blackish ; tegulse 

 yellowish grey at base and with medial black line ; patagia with 

 black line near edges. Fore wing with the subbasal line double, 

 ending at the short black streak below base of cell ; antemedial line 

 indistinct, double filled in with grey, excurved ; claviform small, 

 defined bv black ; orbicular large, with whitish annulus defined by 

 black, oblique elliptical, and touching antemedial line ; reuiform 

 large and touching postmedial line above and below, ill-defined ; 

 medial shade only visible at costa ; postmedial line double filled in 

 with grey, the inner line minutely waved, the outer even, bent out- 

 wards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then incurved and angled 

 outwards on vein 1 ; subterminal line pale, defined on each side by 

 lackish, most prominently towards inner margin, angled outwards 

 at vein 7, slightly excurved at middle, and angled inwards at sub- 

 median fold ; a terminal series of black striae ; cilia chequered 

 fuscous and whitish. Hind wing fuscous, with darker terminal 

 line ; cilia whitish at base; the underside grey with dark irroration, 

 a discoidal spot and waved postmedial line. 



Hub. U.S.A., Colorado. Exp. 30 millim. This species is 

 unknown to me ; figured from a drawing from type in U.S. Xat. 

 Mus, 



Sect. III. Antennse of male with verj' short fasciculate branches ending in a 

 brislle, the apical part serrate. 



A. Fore wing with the claviform filled in with black, no distinct 



pale fascia from it to termen detracta. 



B. Fore wing with the claviform not filled in with black, a 



distinct pale fascia from it to termen neoterica. 



1216. Polia detracta. (Plate LXXX. fig. 6.) 



Hadena ddrcicta, Wlk. xi. 752 (1857) ; Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 116. 

 Mamestra claviplena, Grote, Bull. Buff. Sec. Nat. Sci. i. p. 194 (1873). 



cJ . Head and thorax dark red-brown mixed with grey ; tegulae 

 with black medial line ; patagia black at tips ; tarsi with pale rings; 

 abdomen brown, the dorsal crests black at tips, the ventral surface 

 irrorated with grey. Fore wing dark brown suffused with grey ; a 

 black streak below base of cell ; a double, waved subbasal line from 

 costa to submedian fold filled in with grey ; antemedial line defined 

 by grey on inner side, waved, angled outwards below costa and 

 inwards in cell and on vein 1 ; claviform moderate, filled in with 

 black ; orbicular and reniform grey defined by black and their 

 centres by brown, the former oblique elliptical ; postmedial line 

 double filled in with grey, dentate, bent outwards below costa, 

 excurved to vein 4, then incurved, some pale points beyond it on 



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