108 NOCTUlT)^. 



1275. Polia ingravis. (Plate LXXXI. fig. 8.) 



Mamestra ingravis, Smith, Eut. News Pbilad, vi. p. 337, pi. 

 ri89o). 



(1895). 



Pbilad. vi. p. 337, pi. sv. f. 10 



Head and thorax black-brown mixed with bluish grey ; tegulaj 

 with medial black line ; tarsi banded with black; abdomen brown, the 

 dorsal crests with black tips, the ventral surface often tinged with 

 rufous. Tore wing fuscous suffused and irroratcd with purplish 

 grey ; a black streak below base of cell ; subbasal line double, 

 waved, from costa to submedian fold; antemedial lino defined by 

 grey on inner side, waved, angled inwards on vein 1 ; claviform 

 ■wcU-developed, greyish defined by black ; orbicular and reniform 

 large, with whitish annuli defined by black, the former rounded or 

 elliptical ; an indistinct diffused medial line ; postmedial lino some- 

 what dentate and produced to points on the veins, bent outwards 

 below costa, excurved to vein 4, then incurved, the area beyond it 

 purplish grey, the costa brownish with some pale points on it ; 

 Bubterminal line white, defined on inner side by some dentate black 

 marks at middle, angled outwards at vein 7 and dentate at veins 

 4, 3, the area beyond it darker except at apex ; a terminal series 

 of small black lunules ; cilia chequered pale and black. Hind wing 

 fuscous brown, the terminal area blackish, the cilia pinkish, white 

 at tips ; the underside pinkish white thickly irrorated with dark 

 scales, a slight discoidal spot and sinuous postmedial lino. 



Hah. Canada, Calgary ( Wolley-Dod), 6 (5* , 2 $ , Er. Columbia, 

 Fraser R. {St. John), 1 $ . Exp. 38 millim. 



*1276. Polia nagaensis. (Plate LXXXI. fig. 9.) 

 Hadeiia nagaensis, Hmpsn. Moths Ind. ii. p. 201 (1894). 



2 . Head and thorax dark purplish grey ; tarsi with pale rings ; 

 abdomen dull brown. Fore wing dark purplish grey-brown tinged 

 in parts with fuscous ; the costal area tinged with red from ante- 

 medial line to near apex ; the inner margin with pale ochreous- 

 browu fascia from near base to tornus ; subbasal line double, black 

 filled in with grey, waved, from costa to submedian fold, where 

 there is some black suffusion on each side of it ; antemedial line 

 double filled in with grey, angled outwards below costa, oblique to 

 vein 4, then incurved and obsolete below vein 1 ; claviform large, 

 defined by black ; orbicular and reniform dark grey, with slight 

 ochreous annuli defined by black, the former rather pear-shaped, 

 the latter large and strongly angled inwards on median nervure, 

 the cell before and between them and the area beyond the reniform 

 suffused with black ; postmedial line double at costa, below which 

 it is bent outwards, then indistinct, strongly dentate and oblique 

 below vein 2 ; subterminal line ochreous, with some ill-defined 

 dentate black marks before it, angled outwards at vein 7 and 

 slightly excurved at middle ; a terminal series of small black 

 lunules ; a pale line at base of cilia. Hind M'iiig brown with a 

 reddish tinge ; cilia white at tips ; the underside greyish suffused 



