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area ; a fine terminal dark line : the cilia white ; the underside 

 with the costal area irrorated with brown, a small discoidal spot 

 and sinuous ])ostmcdi;il lino. 



Ab. 1, snU'oiitii/i((t. Darker. — Urals, Ipask. 



Hah. Britain, Scotland, England, Leech Coll. ; France, Leech 

 Coll. ; GEKjiANr, Zcller & Frey Colls. ; N. Spain ; N. Ifaly ; 

 KussiA, Urals ; Armenia ; Siberia, Ussuri ; Japan (Pryer), 1 c? . 

 Exp. 40 millim. 



Larva. Mevr. Brit. Lep. p. 83 ; Barrett, Lep. Brit. iv. p. 170, pi. 156. f. 1. 



Dull yellowish green, suffused with orange-ochreous and mottled 

 with rcddi.sh brown, above forming dorsal series of V-shaped 

 marks ; spiracular line reddish brown. Food-plants : Oak, Birch, 

 SoHdago, etc. 8-9. 



1255. Polia grandis. (riate LXXX. fig. 30.) 



Hadena grajidis, Boisd. Gen. et Ind. Meth. p. 120 (1840) ; Guen. Noct. ii. 



p. 105, pi. 8. f. 10 ; Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 118. 

 Xylophasia libera, Wlk. is. 179 (1856). 



Head and thorax red-brown mixed witli purplish grey ; frons 

 with blackish bar ; tegulse with black medial line ; tarsi with pale 

 reddish rings ; abdomen grey-brown, the dorsal crests dark at tij)s, 

 the anal tuft with a fulvous tinge. Fore wing purplish grfy largely 

 suffused with bright rufous and dark brown ; a sinuous black lino 

 below base of cell ; traces of a pale curved subbasal line from costa ; 

 antemedial line double, oblique, waved ; claviform short and broad, 

 defined by black and with black streak from below it to postmediil 

 line ; orbicular and reniform with brown centres and grey annuli 

 defined by black, the former round or elliptical, the latter extending 

 to below cell; an indistinct irregularly waved medial line, oblique 

 from costa to below cell where it is angled ; postmedial lino double, 

 minutely dentate, bent outwards below costa, e.xcurved to vein 4, 

 then incurved, the area beyond it lilacine grey ; subterminal line 

 white, defined on inner side by some rufous, with straight inner 

 edge from below costa, some small dentate black marks before it at 

 middle, angled outwards at vein 7 and dentate nearly to termen on 

 veins 4, 3, the area beyond it suffused with black ; a terminal series 

 of small black lunules. Hind wing fuscous brown with a yellowish 

 tinge ; the cilia whitish with a brown line through them ; the 

 underside whitish thickly irrorated with reddish brown, a dark 

 discoidal spot, slightly waved postmeditil lin(;, and diffused subter- 

 minal band. 



Hah. Greenland; Canada; U.S.A., N.E. and Middle States, 

 Maine, Xew York, Trenton Falls (Douhlcday), 2(5 ,1 $ , type lihera, 

 Evans Centre ( Grote), 1 c? , 1 2 , Pennsylvania, "Wisconsin, Illinois, 

 Minnesota, Colorado. Exjy. 48 millim. 



Larva. (Original.) Head shining red-brown, the reticulations and 

 bands darker, but narrow and broken. Body grey-brown, peppered 

 with black on a whitish and reddish ground, all the markings 



