08 ifocTriDJ5. 



2 2 » ^^ew Mexico, Albuquerque {Oblai'), 1 J , - ? • -filrp. 

 58 millim. 



Larva (Orij?inal). — Head shining brown with dark brown reticu- 

 latiuMs, the upper vertical band broad. l^ody cylindrical, uniform, 

 dull brown, indetiuitely shaded with blackish; a broad diffuse dorsal 

 band, faintly widened into quadrate patches on the segments, 

 containing a broken yellowisli-whitc dorsal line ; a narroAV trans- 

 verse dusky bar on joint 12. IJlackish oblique stripes extend 

 upward and backward from the spiracles, ill-defintd. No shields. 



A general feeder, adapted for concealment on the ground. — 

 U. G. D. 



1219. Polia imbrifera. (riate LXXX. fig. 8.) 



Aplecta imbrifera, Guen. Noct. ii. p. 7G (1852); Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. 

 p. 114. • 



Head and thorax dark brown mixed with grey ; tegulaj Avith 

 black medial line ; patagia with whitish patches ; tarsi banded 

 with black ; abdomen brown mixed with grey. Pore wing grey, 

 largely or almost entirely suffused with brown and irrorated with 

 black; a double black subbasal line, interrupted at cell and connected 

 ■with base by a slight streak above vein 1 ; antemedial line defined 

 by -whitish on inner side, oblique, waved, angled inwards on median 

 nervure and vein 1 ; claviform short, broad, defined by black ; 

 orbicular and reniform large, with brownish centres and whitisli 

 annuli defined by black, the former round ; an indistinct medial 

 line oblique from costa to median nervure, then dentate ; post- 

 medial line double filled in with whitish, dentate, bent outwards 

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

 beyond it on costa; postmedial area whitish towards subterminal 

 line, which is whitish defined on inner side by an irregular series 

 of dentate dark marks, angled outwards at vein 7 and dentate at 

 veins 4, 3 ; a terminal series of black lunules. Hind v\ing whitish 

 sufi'used with dark brown especially on terminal area ; the some- 

 what dentate postmedial line defined by pale colour on outer side ; 

 cilia pale ; the undert^ide paler, with dark discoidal lunule, curved 

 postmedial line, and diffused subterminal band. 



tiah. Canada ; U.S.A., N.E. and Middle States, New York, 

 Trenton Falls ( Doableday), 2^,1$ ,type, Evans Centre, 2 d" , 2 $ , 

 Colorado. Exj). 54 millim. 



*1220. Polia nugatis. (Plate LXXX. fig. 9.) 



MuTnestra nugatis, Smith, Ent. News Philad. ix. p. 240 (1898) ; Dyar, Cat. 

 Lep. N.Am. p. 156. 



2 . Head and thorax purplish grey mixed with dark brown ; 

 tegnlae with medial black line ; patagia with some black scales 

 near upper edge ; abdomen ochreous, whitish at base, greyish at 

 extremity. Fore wing purplish grey irrorated with fuscous, some 



