102 NOCTUIDJE. 



suffused with brown espooially on terminal area ; the underside 

 Avith the costal and terminal areas irrorated with brown, a small 

 discoidal spot. 



Hah. W. TrRKKSTAX, Transcaspia, 3 c? ; E. Turkestan, Kungess, 

 1 (S , Hi, type t iu Coll. Piingeler. Ex£. J52 milliai. 



*1266. Folia vau-ort)icularis. 



Mamestra vau-orhicidaris, Smith, Journ. N.Y. Ent. Soc. x. p. 42 (1902) ; 

 Djar, Cat. Lep. N. Am. p. 15G. 



c? . Greyish ochreous-brown with fuscous and black suffusion and 

 irroration ; head with the vertex rather darker ; tegulso with a 

 broad medial band ; abdomen rather paler. Fore wing with the 

 lines indistinct ; subbasal line double, angled outwards on subcostal 

 nervure, an oblique striga just beyond it from cell to A'cin 1 ; ante- 

 medial line double, oblique, nearly even, the outer part with a more 

 prominent spot at costa ; claviform absent : orbicular small, open 

 above and defined by a prominent black V-shaped mark ; reniform 

 with yellowish annulus defined by black but open above and below, 

 narrow ; medial shade broad, diffused, angled at lower angle of cell ; 

 postmedial line double, with a series of yellowish points beyond it on 

 the veins, minutely waved, slightl)- bent outwards below costa and 

 obli(]ue below vein 4 ; subterminal line yellowish, defined on inner 

 side by a series of black spots, angled outwards at vein 7, then even; 

 a terminal series of small black lunules ; cilia yelloAvish with a 

 fuscous line through them. Hind wing fuscous, rather paler at 

 base ; the underside yellowish irrorated with fuscous, a discoidal 

 spot and postmedial line. 



Hah. U.S.A.. Oregon, Corvallis. Exp. 35 millim. This species 

 is unknown to me. 



1267. Polia consanguis. 



Badena coyisanguis, Guen. Noct. ii. j). 97 (1852); Hmpsn. Moths lud. ii. 



p. 199 ; Stand. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 158. 

 Apamea unchcilia, Wlk. ix. 251 (1856). 

 Hadc7ia languida, Wlk. xv. 1728 (1858). 



Mamestra zachii, Bbtscb. Verb, zool.-bot. Ges. Wieu, 1879, p. 406. 

 Hecatara impura, Snell. Midden-Sumatra, Lep. p. 43, pi. 50. f. 5 (1880). 

 Hadena stoUda, Leech, P. Z. S. 1889, p. .509, pi. 4. f. 2. 

 Apamea cana, Hmpsn. 111. Het. B. M. Tiii. p. 79, pi. 165. f. 8 (1891). 

 Mamestra abbas, Baker, Trans. Ent. Soc. 1894, p. 40, pi. 1. f. 8. 



Head and tcgulae grey mixed with rufous ; thorax purplish red- 

 brown largely mixed with black ; tegulaj with medial black line ; 

 tarsi banded with black ; abdomen fuscous brown. Fore wing 

 pale ocbrcous brown thickly irrorated with rufous, the cell and area 

 below and beyond it suffused with fuscous on medial area ; the 

 subbasal line represented by black striae from costa and cell ; the 

 antemedial line double, irregularly Avaved ; claviform small, defined 

 by black ; orbicular and reniform small, with fuscous centres and 

 pale brownish annuli defined by black, the former round, the latter 



