84 NOCTuiDJii:. 



fuscous ; tarsi with palo pinkish rings ; abdomen purplish pink, 

 brown towards extremity, the basal crest dark. Pore wing black- 

 brown suffused with puplish pink and with a grey gloss ; an in- 

 distinct, double, waved subbasal line from costa to 8u]»medi;in fold ; 

 autemedial line double tilled in with paler colour, angled outwards 

 below costa, obliiiue to submedian fold, then recurved to inner 

 margin ; the medial area rather darker ; the claviform very ob- 

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

 greyish, the latter rather concave towards base, with pinkish an- 

 nulus and ])roniinent white spot on its outer edge ; the postmedial 

 line indistinctly double idled in Avith pinkish, bent outwards below 

 costa, and incurved below vein 4 to near antemedial line, some pale 

 points beyond it on costa ; the subterminal line represented by 

 whitish points on black streaks extending to termen, the terminal 

 area rather darker ; some pinkish points at base of cilia. Hind 

 wing ochreous white suffused with brown, the area below the cell 

 whiter ; a terminal series of dark sti ite ; the underside with the 

 costal area tinged with pink, a black discoidal spot and waved 

 postmedial lide. 



Hab. Mexico, Orizaba, type t 6 i'l Coll. Schaus. Eay. 30 

 millim. 



1242. Polia brachiola. (Plate LXXX. fig. 22.) 



Mamestra brachiolum, Harv. Can. Ent. viii. p. 6 (1876) ; Smith, Cat. Noct. 

 N. Am. i. p. 123. 



Head, thorax, and abdomen black-brown mixed with grey ; 

 tegulfe with slight black medial line. Fore wing grey suffused and 

 irroratcd with black-brown and with a slight purplish tinge ; a waved 

 subbasal black line from costa to submedian fold, defined by grey 

 on outer side ; a double, waved, oblique antemedial line, angled 

 inwards in cell and filled in with grey ; claviform very small, 

 defined by black ; orbicular and reniform defined by black, incom- 

 pletely above, the former small or moderate, rounded ; an indistinct 

 waved medial line, angled outwards to lower angle of cell ; post- 

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

 below costa, exeurved to vein 4, then oblique ; the postmedial area 

 grey except at costa ; subterminal line grey, angled outwards at 

 vein 7, exeurved at middle, and bent outwards to tornus, with some 

 black marks on inner side from vein 5 to inner margin, slightly 

 defined by black on outer side : a terminal series of black points ; 

 cilia fuscous and grey. Hind wing fuscous brown, paler towards 

 base in male ; cilia white, with a brown line through them ; the 

 underside whitish thickly irrorated with dark brown, the terminal 

 area suft'used .with brown, a discoidal point and curved postmedial 

 line. 



Hab. U.S.A., Texas, 1 (S , \ $ , type, Arizona. Exp. 34 millim. 



