86 NOCXUID^. 



minutely dentate, angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at middle ; 

 cilia whitish mixed with brown and with a brown line through 

 them. Hind wing palo tinged with fuscous, especially on the veins 

 and terminal area ; cilia white with a dark line tiirough them ; 

 the underside white, the costal and terminal areas irrorated with 

 fuscous, a small discoidal spot and curved postmedial line. 



Hub. U.S.A., Colorado, Arizona, in U.S. Nat. Mus. Exp. 34 

 millim. 



1245. Polia plicata. (Plate LXXX. fig. 25.) 



Mamesira plicata, Smith, Ent. News Philad. ix. p. 243 (1898); Dyar, Cat. 



Lep. N. Ain. p. 155. 

 Mamestra negussa, Smith, Can. Ent. xxxii. p. 219 (1900) ; Dyar, Cat. Lep, 



N. Am. p. 156. 



Head, thorax, and abdomen grey mixed with daj-k brown. Fore 

 wing grey thickly irrorated with iuscous brown ; the cell and area 

 just beyond and below it tinged with rufous ; the veins with some- 

 what darker streaks ; an indistinct subbasal line defined by grey on 

 outer side, angled outwards in cell and extending to subraedian 

 fold ; antemedial line double, waved, filled in with grey ; claviform 

 small, grey indistinctly defined by brown, or rather larger and better 

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

 oblique elliptical, the latter with some fuscous in its lower part ; 

 traces of an oblique waved medial line from cell to inner margin ; 

 postmedial line defined by grey on outer side, minutely waved, bent 

 outwards below costa and incurved below vein 4 ; some pale points 

 on costa towards apex ; subterminal lino whitish, angled outwards 

 at vein 7 and excurved at middle. Hind wing grey-brown with 

 fine dark terminal line ; the underside grey irrorated with brown, 

 a discoidal lunule and curved postmedial line. 



Hah. Canada, Alberta, Calgary ( Wolley-Dod), 1 cJ , 1 5 ; U.S.A., 

 Colorado in U.S. Nat. Mus. Exp. 40 millim. 



*124G. Polia gnata. (Plate LXXXVI. fig. 8.) 



Mamestra qnata, Gi ote, Can. Ent. xip. p. 170 (1882) ; Smith, Cat. Noct. 

 N. Am. p. 116. 



S . Head and thorax dark brown mixed with grey ; tegulse with 

 black medial line ; abdomen pale grey-brown. Pore wing dark 

 grey suffused with yellowish brown ; the lines double ; subbasal 

 line indistinct ; antemedial line minutely waved, oblique from 

 costa to median nervure ; claviform defined by black, small ; orbi- 

 cular and leniform well developed, Avith pale annuli defined by 

 black, the former rather oblique elliptical; a sliglit medial shade 

 from lower angle of cell to inner margin : postmedial line minutely 

 \\;ivcd, lieiit outwards below costa and incurved below vein 4, the 



