POLIA. 99 



' 1261. Polia altaica. (Plate LXXXI. fig. 2.) 



Hadena altaica, Led. Verh. zool.-bot. Ges. Wien, 1853, pi. 2. f. 6 ; Staud. 

 Cat. Lep. pal. p. 156. 



Head and thorax brown mixed -vrith grey ; tegulae with slight 

 dark medial line ; tarsi banded with blackish ; abdomen grey-brown. 

 Fore Aving grey, more or less strongly suffused and irrorated with 

 brown ; a slight blackish streak below base of cell ; subbasal line 

 defined by whitish on outer side, curved from costa to submedian 

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

 well-developed, defined by black ; orbicular and reniform large, 

 grey defined by black, the former round, with brownish centre, the 

 latter with grey lunule on brown centre ; an indistinct curved 

 medial shade ; postmedial line double filled in with grey, minutely 

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

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

 white defined by fuscous marks on inner side at discal and sub- 

 median folds, dentate, angled outwards at vein 7 and nearly to 

 termen on veins 4, 3 ; a terminal series of small black lunules ; 

 cilia intersected with white. Hind wing pale suffused with brown, 

 the terminal area darker with a pale patch on termen near tornus ; 

 a dark terminal line ; cilia white ; the underside whitish irroi'ated 

 with brown, a dark discoidal spot, sinuous postmedial line, and 

 diffused subterminal band. 



Hah. "W. Siberia, Altai, 1 (5* , 1 5 ; W. Tttrkestan, Ferghana, 

 Issyk-kul ; E. Tuekestan, Hi; Mongolia; S.E. Siberia, Kentei. 

 Exp. 46 millim. 



1262. Polia suasa. 



Noctua S2msa, Schiff. Wien. Verz. p. 83 (1776); Hiibn. Ear. Schmett., Noct. 



f. 426 ; Diip. Lep. Fr. vii. pi. 101. f. 7. 

 Noctua dissimilis, Knoch, Beitr. i. pi. 4. if. 1-4 (1781); Staud. Cat. Lep. 



pal. p. 157. 

 Noctua w-latinum, Esp. Schmett. iv. pi. 136. f. 3 (1786), nee Hufn. 

 Noctua leucograjiha, Esp. Schmett. iv. pi. 150. f. 3 (1786). 

 Noctua dens-canis, Haw. Lep. Brit. p. 190 (1809). 

 Noctua per mi j-t a, Geyer, iSchmett. Eur., Noct. f. 803 (1837). 

 Maviestra aliena, Dup. Lep. Fr. Suppl. iii. p. 323, pi. 30. f. i. (1836). 

 Mamestra confluens, Ev. Faun. Volg.-Ur. p. 245 (1844). 

 Hadena pnvida , Guen. Noct. ii. p. 101 (1852), nee Boisd. 

 Mamestra extincta, Stand. Eom. Mem. vi. p. 425 (1892). 



S . Head and thorax brownish grey with a purplish tinge ; frons 

 with black bar ; tegulge with black medial line ; palpi blackish ; 

 tarsi with pale rings ; abdomen ochreous or greyish at base, 

 dark brown towards extremity. Fore wing ochreous or grey- 

 brown ; a black streak below base of cell ; the subbasal line 

 represented by a black striga from costa ; antemedial line indis- 

 tinct, double filled in with grey, excurved in interspaces and 

 angled inwards on the veins; claviform large, defined by black; 

 orbicular and reniform large, defined by black, the former roimded or 

 quadrate, open above ; iDostmedial line double, the outer indistinct, 



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