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NOCTUID.'E. 



cost a; siibterminiil line grey, defined on each side by some black 

 HCales, angled outwards at vein 7 and cxcurved at middle ; the veins 

 of terminal area with slight dark streaks ; a terminal series of black 

 strijc ; eilia brown and grey. Hind wing fuscous brown ; the 

 \inderside pale irrorated Avilh dark brown, a discoidal point and 

 sinuous postmedial line. 



5 . Darker and much less suffused with grey. 



l^ah. Canada ; U.S.A., Massachusetts, New York, Trenton Falls 

 (DonhJedoif), 1 c? type, Evans Centre (Grofe), 2 J, 1 $, tyi>e 

 claripJcna, New Jersey, Wisconsin, A'irginia, New Mexico. Eay. 

 34 millini. 



Larva. Head brown, with dark brown reticulations and curved 

 vertical bands. ]3ody narrower in front, joint 12 enlarged. 

 Iveddish brown, finely marbled on a luteous ground. Dorsal and 

 subdorsal lines pale, narrow, obscured. Cervical shield shining 

 brownish black, cut by dorsal and subdorsal distinct pale-yellow 

 lines, the part of the shield below the subdorsal line luteous. 

 Spiracles black ; feet of the colour of body. — H. G. D. 



1217. Polia neoterica. 



Mamestra neoterica, Smith, Ent. News Philacl. 1898, p. 244 ; Dyar, Cat. 

 Lfp. N. Am. p. 156. 



(^ . Head and thorax black-brown mixed with white ; tegulae 

 with blackish medial line ; tarsi with white rings; abdomen dark 

 brown mixed with grey. Fore wing grey thickly irrorated with 

 black-brown ; a rather ill-defined black streak below base of cell ; 

 an indistinct waved black subbasal line from costa to submedian 

 fold, defined by grey on outer side; antemedial line indistinct, 

 oblique, waved, defined by grey on inner side ; claviform moderate, 

 rather indistinctly defined by black, and with a brownish-white 

 fascia from it to subterminal line ; orbicular and reniform with 



Fig. \^.—roUa neoterica, J. \. 



brown centres and grey annuli defined by black, the former oblique 

 elliptical, open above, the latter sometimes with ill-defined pale 

 lascia beyond it ; postmedial line rather indistinct, crenulate, and 

 produced to points on the veins, bent outwards below costa, excurved 

 to vein 4, then incurved, some pale points beyond it on costa ; sub- 

 terminal line grey, defined on inner side by very indistinct black 



