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ochreons white in siibmedian fold from base to claviform and in 

 discal fold from reniform to near'subterminal line ; a black streak 

 below base of cell ; snbbasal line obsolete ; antemedial line indistinct, 

 waved, strongly angled outwards in submedian fold and above 

 inner margin, and inwards on vein 1 ; claviform elongate, defined 

 by black ; orbicular and reniform defined by black, the former 

 oblique elliptical, the latter emitting a long spur inwards on median 

 nervure to below former; a diffused blackish fascia in and below lower 

 end of cell from lower angle to subterminal line ; a whitish streak 

 from claviform to subterminal line and slight streaks above veins 2 

 and 3 ; postraedial line only traceable at costa and towards inner 

 margin, where it is dentate ; subterminal line white, defined by 

 fuscous brown marks on inner side, angled outwards at vein 7, to 

 termen at veins 4, 3, and inwards in discal and subterminal folds ; 

 a terminal series of black lunules ; a fine whitish line at base of 

 cilia. Hind wing white, the veins tinged with brown ; a fine dark 

 terminal line ; the underside with the costal area irrorated with 

 brown. 



Hab. U.S.A., jSTebraska, Montana, Colorado, in U.S. Nat. Mus. 

 E.vj>. 46 millim. 



1221. Polia languida. (Plate LXXXVI. fig. 6.) 



Mamestra languida, Smith, Trans. Am. Eut. See. xxi. p. 54, pi. ii. f. 6 

 (1894) ; Djar, Cat. Lep. N. Am. p. 155. 



Head and thorax purple-grey with some blackish irroration ; 

 frons with black band ; teguUTS "tipped with white ; abdomen pale 

 brownish grey. Fore wing purple-grey irrorated with fuscous ; a 

 dark shade on costal area and in cell to postmedial Hne, becomiug 

 bright rufous beyond the cell ; subbasal and antemedial lines repre- 

 sented by blackish points on costa ; claviform very small, slightly 

 defined by black ; orbicular and reniform large, with rather pale 

 centres defined by black, the former round ; postmedial line double, 

 minutely dentate, bent outwards below costa and oblique below 

 vein 4 ; subterminal line yellowish white, defined on inner side by 

 somewhat dentate black marks from below costa to vein 5 and 

 towards inner margin, aiigled outwards at vein 7 and strongly 

 dentate at veins 4, 3 ; a terminal series of black points ; a fine pale 

 line at base of cilia. Hind wing white, the veins and terminal area 

 tinged with brown ; a dark terminal line; cilia whitish ; the under- 

 side white irrorated with black. 



Hah. U.S.A., Colorado, Durango (Oslar), 1 6,1 2- Exp. 

 37 millim. 



1222. Polia juncimacula. (Plate LXXX. fig. 10.) 



Mamestra juncimacula. Smith, BuU. Brooklyn Ent. Soc. v. p. 67 (1882) ; 

 Dyar, Cat. Lep. N. Am. p. 151. 



Head and thorax dark brown mixed with grey ; tegulae with medial 

 black line ; patagia with some black scales near upper edge ; 



