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KOCIUID^. 



abdomen ochreons mixed with red-brown. Fore wing purplish 

 grey suffused and irrorated Avith dark brown, and with some rufous 

 at base of costa and inner margin, in submedian fold, and in discal 

 fold from middle of cell to near subterminal line ; a slight black 

 streak at base of vein 1 followed by others on subcostal and median 

 nervures and in submedian fold ; antemedial line indistinct, grey, 

 strongly angled outwards below costa and in submedian fold, 

 inwards on subcostal and median nervures and vein 1 ; claviform 

 small, slightly defined by black ; orbicular and reniform defined by 

 brown, the former irregularly obli()ue elliptical, with dark point at 

 centre, the latter a large narrow lunule, with brown line at centre 

 and Avith its lower edge angled inwards on median nervure to the 

 orbicular ; postmedial line very indistinct, dentate, with darker 

 points at the veins, bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, 

 then oblique ; some white points beyond it on costa ; subterminal 

 line Avliite defined on inner side by rufous, with irregular rather 

 dentate black marks, longest below veins 5 and 2, the line angled 

 outwards at vein 7 and dentate to termen at veins 4, 3 ; a terminal 

 series of black lunules. Hind wing white, with traces of diffused 

 subterminal band or wholly suffused aud irrorated Avith brown ; 

 the underside with the costal aud terminal areas irrorated with 

 brown. 



Hah. U.S.A., Colorado {Bruce), 1 §, Durango {Oslar), 1 J. 

 Exj). 54 millim. 



1223. Polia purpurissata. 



Eurois purpurissata, Grote, Proc. Eot. Soc. Phil. iii. p. 82, pi. 1. f. 5 



(1864) ; Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Aiu. p. 114. 

 Mamestra crydina, Dyar, Can. Eat. 1904, p. 32. 



Head aud thorax purplish grey mixed with dark brown ; frons 

 with two black bars ; teguloe with black medial line ; tarsi banded 

 with black ; abdomen grey tinged with red-brown. Fore wing 

 purplish grey irrorated with brown, and suffused with dark brown 



Fig. 20. — Polia purpurissata, J . }. 



on costal area and in cell ; an indistinct pale subbasal line inter- 

 rupted at cell and ending at vein 1 ; antemedial line double 

 filled in with grey, waved, oblicpie from costa to submedian fold 

 where it is angled, then angled inwards on vein 1 and outwards 



