FOLIA. 101 



AxTSTMA, Frey Coll. ; Switzerland ; N. Italy ; Russia, St. Peters- 

 burg; Armenia; W. Siberia, Altai; W. Turkestan, Issyk-kul ; 

 E, Turkestan, Hi ; E. Siberia, Amurland, Ussuri ; Japan, Oiwake 

 {Frj/er), 1 d" . Exjy. 46 millim. 



Ab. 1. amurensis. Much darker. — E. Siberia, Japan. 



Larva. Kirby, Eur. Butt. & Moths, p. 227. 



Brownish grey, marbled, the ventral surface greenish yellow, 

 dorsal and subdorsal lines pale. Food-plants : Trifolium montanum, 

 Cytisus nigricans, AnthylUs vulneraria, etc. 7-9. 



*1264. Polia passa. 



Mamestra passa, Morr. Proc. Bost. Soc. N. H. X7ii. p. 139 (1874); Smith, 

 Cat. ]>Joct. N. Am. p. 122. 



2 . Head and thorax pale ochreous tinged with reddish and 

 irrorated with fuscous ; teguloe with black medial line ; abdomen 

 greyish. Fore wing pale ochreous tinged \^■ith rufous and irrorated 

 with fuscous ; a black streak below base of cell ; the lines indistinct ; 

 subbasal line traceable ; antemedial line double, curved, waved ; 

 claviform lai'ge, defined by black ; orbicular and reniform large, pale, 

 incompletely defined by black, the former somewhat oblique ellip- 

 tical, open above, the latter ill-defined below, the area beyond it) 

 tinged with reddish ; postmedial line almost obsolete on costal half, 

 incurved below vein 4, the area beyond it strongly irrorated with 

 white ; subtermiual line white, very even, defined on inner side by- 

 fuscous, especially towards inner margin. Hind wing fuscous ; the 

 underside dull fuscous with darker irroration, a discoidal lunule 

 and curved postmedial line. 



Hah. U.S.A., California. Exp. 34 millim. This species is 

 unknown to me. 



1265. Polia ptochica. (Plate LXXXI. fig. 3.) 



Mamestra ptochica, Piing. Iris, xii. p. 104 (1899) ; Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. 

 p. 158. 



S . Head, thorax, and abdomen white mixed with fuscous ; palpi 

 with the second joint fuscous at sides; tarsi with blackish bands. 

 Fore wing grey-whito irrorated with fuscous ; subbasal line repre- 

 sented by a black striga from costa and two prominent oblique 

 black striie from cell met by a streak in submedian fold; antemedial 

 line waved ; claviform brownish defined by black ; orbicular 

 and reniform small, grey defined by black, the former oblique 

 elliptical, the cell before and between them and the area beyond 

 the reniform brownish ; traces of an oblique medial line from cell 

 to inner margin ; postmedial line minutely dentate, bent outwards 

 below costa and oblique below vein 4, some pale points beyond it on 

 costa ; subterminal line defined by fuscous on inner side, angled 

 outwards at vein 7, dentate at veins 4, 3, and angled inwards in 

 submedian fold ; a lunulate terminal black line. Hind wing white 



