POLIA. 75 



grey irrorated with fuscous, a dark discoidal spot and curved post- 

 medial baud. 



Hah. U.S.A., Colorado, Hall Valley. Exp., S 30, ? 23 millim. 

 This species is unkuowu to me : figured from a drawing from type 

 in U.S. JS'at. Mus. 



1227. Polia orientalis. (Plate LXXX. fig. 12.) 



Bianthcecia orientalis, Alph. Hor. Soc. Ent. Ross. xvii. p. 71, pi. 2. f. 52 



(1882) ; Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 161. 

 Bianthxcia uniformis, Staud. Iris, ix. p. 256 (1896). 



Head and thorax grey mixed with brown ; palpi blackish except 

 at tips ; tegulte with two dark lines ; patagia edged with black 

 above; tarsi with white rings; abdomen grey mixed with brown. 

 Fore wing grey thicklj' irrorated with brown ; a Avaved black streak 

 below base of cell ; subbasal line represented by black striae from 

 costa and cell, defined by whitish on outer side ; antemedial line 

 oblique, waver! , defined by grey on inner side ; claviform moderate, 

 defined by black ; orbicular and reniform with brown centres and 

 white annuli defined by black, the former small, oblique elliptical, 

 the area between and beyond them suffused with brown ; traces of 

 a curved medial line ; postmedial line dentate and produced to dark 

 streaks interrupted by pale points on the veius, bent outwards 

 below costa, excui'ved to vein 4, then incurved, some pale points 

 beyond it on costa and a ])ale oblique band arising from apex ; 

 subterminal line whitish, defined by slight somewhat dentate brown 

 marks on inner side and some fuscous on outer, angled outwards 

 at vein 7 and somewhat dentate at veins 4, 3 ; a terminal series 

 of black luuules : cilia brown intersected with white. Hind wing 

 fuscous brown ; cilia white, with a brown line through them ; the 

 underside grey irrorated with brown, a discoidal spot and sinuous 

 postmedial line. 



Ab. 1, uniformis. Pore wing more uniform brownish grey.— 

 Mongolia. 



Hab. W. Turkestan, Tura, 1 (5 , 3 5 , Ferghana, Issyk-kul ; 

 E. TuEKESTA^^, Hi ; Mo^^GOLiA, Uliassutai Mts., Urga, 1 c5' . Exp. 

 34 millim. 



1228. Polia oriza. 



Cel(e7ia orim, Druce, Biol. Centr.-Am., Het. i. p. 275, pi. 26. f. 28 (1889). 



(S . Head and thorax purplish red-brown mixed with white ; 

 tegulffi yellowish at base and tipped with white ; tarsi ringed with 

 white ; abdomen rufous mixed with white. Fore wing whitish, 

 mostly suff'used and irrorated with red-brown, the medial area 

 darker red-brown ; subbasal line from costa to submedian fold, 

 angled outwards at median nervure and defined by white on outer 

 side ; the antemedial line double filled in with white, strongly 

 angled outwards below costa, then very oblique and sinuous ; 

 orbicular white with rufous tinge in centre, V-shapcd, open above, 



