V POLIA. 89 



irrorated with browu, a slight discoidal lunule and curved post- 

 medial line. 



Hah. Germany, Zeller Coll. ; Switzerland, Leech Coll. ; Austria, 

 Zeller Coll. ; Huxgart, Frey Coll. ; Armenia ; W. Siberia, Altai, 

 Leech Coll. Exp. 46-56 millim. 



Larva. Grey with a dark head. On low-growing plants in 

 spring. 



1251. Polia spalax. 



Mamestra spalax, Alph. SLett. ent. Zeit. 1887, p. 168 ; id. Rom. Mem. v. 

 p. 144, pi. 6. f. 5 ; Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 155. 



5 . Head and thorax grey mixed with yellowish or dark brown ; 

 tarsi with pale rings ; abdomen grey mixed with brown. Fore 

 wing grey, more or less tinged with ochreous and thickly irrorated 

 with fuscous brown ; subbasal line indistinct, double, waved, from 

 costa to submedian fold ; antemedial line indistinct, doable, waved ; 

 claviform moderate, defined by fuscous ; orbicular and reniform 

 large, defined by fuscous, the former irregularly rounded, with sHght 

 whitish annulus, the latter irregular with whitish points on edges, 

 somewhat angled inwards on median nervure ; traces of a waved 

 medial line ; postmedial line double, dentate and produced to a 

 double series of points on the veins, bent outwards below costa, 

 excurved to vein 4, then incurved, some pale points beyond it on 

 costa ; subterminal line represented by a series of whitish dentate 

 marks slightly defined by fuscous, angled outwards at vein 7 and 

 excurved at middle ; a terminal series of fuscous lunulas ; cilia with 

 ochreous line at base, tlien a fuscous line, the tips whitish and 

 fuscous. Hind wing pale suffused with fuscous brown with a slight 

 reddish tinge ; the cilia with ochreous and fuscous lines at base 

 and white tips ; the underside whitish irrorated with fuscous, a 

 discoidal lunule and curved postmedial line with darker streaks at 

 the veins. 



Hab. Russia, Urals ; Persia, Mesopotamia ; W. Turkestan, 

 2 $ , Ferghana, Sarawschan, Issyk-kul, Ala Tau ; W. Siberia, 

 Altai ; E. Turkestan, Hi. Exp. 34-36 millim. 



1252. Polia insolens. 



Diantlmcia insolens, Grote, Bull. Buff. Soc. Nat. Sci. ii. p. 65 (1874) ; 



Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 115. 

 Teniocampa carina, Morr. Proc. Bost. Soc. N. H. xvii. p. 158 (1874). 



Head and thorax clothed with whitish and pale brown hair ; 

 abdomen whitish tinged with red-brown. Fore wing whitish or 

 luteous, suffused and irrorated with dark brown or nearly uniform 

 pale dull brown ; an indistinct waved subbasal line from costa 

 to submedian fold ; antemedial line oblique, waved, angled out- 

 wards below costa ; claviform very indistinctly defined by brown ; 

 orbicular and reniform large, defined by whitish or ochreous, the 

 former round ; postmedial line dentate, bent outwards below cnsta, 

 excurved to vein 4, then incurved ; subterminal line almost evenly 



