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tips, the anal tuft and ventral surface rufous. Fore wing ochreous 

 grey largely suffused with rufous ; a sinuous black streak below 

 base of cell ; the subbasal line represented by double black striae 

 from costa; a double irregularly-waved antemedial line filled in 

 with grey ; claviform prominent, defined by black and with a 

 blackish streak from it to postmedial line ; orbicular and reniform 

 with brown centres and grey annuli defined by black, the former 

 rounded ; an indistinct waved rufous medial line ; postmedial line 

 indistinct on costal half, minutely dentate and produced to short 

 black streaks with grey points on them on the veins, bent outwards 

 below costa, excurved to vein 4, then incurved, some pale points 

 beyond it on costa ; subterminal line yellowish, defined on inner side 

 by dentate black marks except towards costa and with some black 

 points on outer side, angled outwards at vein 7 and dentate to 

 termen at veins 4 and 3 ; a terminal series of small black lunules ; 

 cilia intersected with whitish. Hind wing ochreous suffused with 

 fuscous brown ; a dark terminal line ; the cilia yellow ; the under- 

 side greyish, the costal area irrorated with rufous, a dark discoidal 

 lunule and sinuous postmedial line. 



Ab. 1. achates. Fore wing more uniform rufous. 



JIab. Britain, Scotland, England, Leech Coll, ; Frak^ce, Sand Coll, ; 

 GERMAjfT, Zeller & Frcy Colls. ; Spain, Catalonia ; Italy ; Dalmatia ; 

 Scandinavia, Lapland, Leech Coll. ; Finland, Leech Coll. ; Russia, 

 Livonia, Zeller Coll., St. Petersburg, Zeller Coll., Urals ; Armenia ; 

 W. Siberia, Altai ; W. Turkestan, Issyk-kul ; E. Titrkestan, Hi ; 

 E. Siberia, Kentei, Amurland, Ussuri. Ea^p. 40 millim. 



Larva. Meyr. Brit. Lep. p. 84 ; Barrett, Lep. Brit. iv. p. 173, pi. 156. f. 2. 



Pale pinkish brown freckled with dark brown ; a double dorsal 

 series of oblique dark marks ; dorsal line indistinct ; spiracular line 

 pale, edged above by white or black, or wholly black. Food-plants : 

 Birch, Lonicera, Polygonum, etc, 7-8. 



1259. Polia siihjuncta. (Plate LXXX. fig. 32.) 



Hadena suhjuncta, Grote & Rob. Trans. Am. Ent. See. ii. p. 198, pi. 3. f. 71 

 (1868) ; Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 118. 



Head and thorax purplish grey mixed with dark brown ; palpi 

 blackish at sides ; frons with black band ; tegulse with black medial 

 line ; abdomen grey-brown, the dorsal crests dark at tips. Foj-e 

 wing grey-brown with a slight purplish tinge ; a sinuous black 

 streak below base of cell with some rufous suffusion above it ; ante- 

 medial line black, oblique, waved ; claviform large, defined by black 

 and with some rufous suffusion below it ; orbicular and reniform 

 large, grey, the former round, defined by black except above, the 

 latter defined on inner side and below, its lower part suffused with 

 fuscous, the area beyond it suffused with rufous to apex ; postmedial 

 line bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4 and indistinct, 

 then black, dentate and incurved ; subterminal line pale, with some 

 dentate black marks before it at middle, the one above vein 3 elon- 

 gate, angled outwards at vein 7 and dentate to termen or.v veins 4, 3, 



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