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area beyond it greyer, with a prominent pale patch on inner area 

 before subterminal line, which is pale defined by the area beyond 

 it being darker, incurved at discal and submedian folds. Hind 

 wing white, the veins and termen tinged with brown ; the under- 

 side with dark irroration. 



Ilab. U.S.A., New Mexico, Arizona. Exj). 32 millim. This 

 species is unknown to me ; figured from a drawing from type in 

 Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences. 



*1247. Polia selama. 



Mamestra selama. Street. Lep. Ehop. & Het. Suppl. i. p. 7 (1898); Dyar, 

 Cat. Lep. N. Am. p. 156. 



S . Head, thorax, and abdomen fuscous tinged with grey. Fore 

 wing fuscous irrorated with grey and with a silky texture ; the 

 markings black defined by grey ; no black streak below base of 

 cell ; claviform absent ; terminal area grey ; an indistinct black 

 terminal line ; cilia fuscous. Hind wing fuscous, paler at base ; 

 cilia whitish, with a dark line through them. 



Hah. U.S.A., Texas. Exp. 2^ millim. This species is unknown 

 to me. 



1248. Polia tenebra, n. sp. (Plate LXXX. fig. 26.) 



S . Head and tliorax brown mixed with white and black scales ; 

 tarsi with pale rings ; abdomen reddish brown. Fore wing fuscous 

 brown mixed with grey and slightly tinged in parts with dull 

 olive; subbasal line double, waved, interrupted at middle, from 

 costa to vein 1 ; antemedial line irregularly waved, oblique, defined 

 by grey on inner side : claviform moderate, defined by black ; 

 orbicular and reuiform defined by black, the former small, round, 

 with white annulus, the latter indistinct, irregular ; an indistinct 

 waved medial line ; postmedial line defined by whitish on outer 

 side, dentate, bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then 

 incurved, some white points beyond it on costa ; subterminal line 

 whitish, defined on inner side by a series of small dentate black 

 marks, slightly angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at middle ; 

 a terminal .«eries of small black lunules ; cilia whitish and fuscous 

 with a black line at base. Hind wing pale suffused with brown, 

 the terminal area darkest, a slight discoidal spot, sinuous postmedial 

 line, and some terminal lunules ; cilia whitish with a dark line near 

 base ; the underside whitish irrorated with brown. 



Hah. Kashmir, Deosai Plains {Leech), 1 d type. Exp. 36 millim. 



