80 jfOCTtrin.T".. 



patcli on base of vein 2 grey ; hind Aving fuscous brown, the cilia 

 ochrcous white. 



Hub. JJiiiTAiy, Ireknd, Leech Coll.; Oceensey {F. E. Lowe); 

 France, Sand Coll. ; Gbksiany, Zeller Coll. ; Austria, Zeller & 

 Leech Colls. ; Sr.uN, Andalusia, Castillo; Corsica; Italy ; Algeria; 

 Russia, Sarepta, Zeller Coll., Urals ; Armenia ; Asia Minor, Pontus ; 

 Mesopotamia; W. Turkestan, Ferghana, Issyk-kul; W. Siberia, 

 Altai. Exp. 34-44 millim. 



Larva. Meyr. Erit. Lep. p. 78 ; Barrett, Lep. Brit. iv. p. 2fil, pi. 105. f. 2. 



Pale ochreous with a slight pinkish tinge ; dorsal line indistinct, 

 fuscous ; bead reddish pink with blackish markings. Food-plants : 

 roots of Silene maritima and injlata. 7-9. 



1234. Polia canities, n. sp. (Plate LXXX. fig. 14.) 



cJ . Head and tliorax pale brownish white irrorated with dark 

 brown ; palpi banded with fuscous ; abdomen brownish ochreous 

 irrorated with dark brown. Fore wing pale ochreous brown 

 sparsely irrorated with white ; traces of a double subbasal line from 

 costa to submediau fold ; antemedial line very indistinct, oblique, 

 waved ; claviform faintly defined by brown ; orbicular and reniform 

 almost obsolete, defined by a few yellow and dark scales, the former 

 round ; postmedial line very indistinct, dentate and produced to 

 white points on the veins, bent outwards below costa, ex curved to 

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

 terminal line formed by a series of very obscure yellowish and dark 

 lunules, angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at middle ; fine 

 pale lines at base and through middle of cilia. Hind wing whitish 

 irrorated with brown, the terminal area suffused with brown ; 

 cilia whitish, with a brown line through them ; the underside with 

 discoidal point, curved postmedial line, and terminal fuscous band. 

 Ifab. U.S.A., California, 1 cS . Exj_^. 32 millim. 



1235. Polia discolor. (Plate LXXX. fig. 15.) 



Scotogramma discolor. Smith, Journ. N.Y. Ent. Soc. vii. p. 42 (1899) ; 

 Dyar, Cat. Lep. N. Am. p. 159. 



(5 . Head and thorax clothed with pale reddish brown and black 

 scales and hairs ; tarsi ringed with white ; abdomen pale brown 

 mixed with dark brown. Fore wing pale ochreous, almost entirely 

 irrorated and suffused with fuscous brown ; subbasal line repre- 

 sented by an oblique series of three groups of black scales ; ante- 

 medial line black, oblique from costa to submedian fold, then 

 angled inwards on vein 1 ; claviform very obscurely defined by 

 black ; orbicular round, very indistinct, with pale ainiulus ; reniform 

 represented by an obscure X-shaped black mark ; postmedial line 

 irregularly dentate and formed by a series of black lunules, bent 

 outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then incurved ; sub- 

 terminal line represented by a series of somewhat dentate black 



