poLii. 109 



■witli brown, a slight discoidal spot and indistinct curved postmedial 

 line. 



Hah. Assam, Niiga Hills, 6000 feet {Dolierty), typef $ in Coll. 

 Elwes. Exp. 40 milliiu. 



1277. Polia ferrisparsa. (Plate LXXXt. fig. 10.) 



Hadena ferrisparsa, Hmpsn. Moths Ind. ii. p. 201 (1894). 



Head and thorax grey tinged with brown ; tegulae with blackish 

 medial line ; patagia edged with black scales above ; tarsi black, ringed 

 with grey ; abdomen brownish grey, the dorsal crests mixed with 

 black. Fore wing brownish grey, irrorated with black and suffused 

 in parts with fuscous ; a pale grey fascia on subcostal nervure from 

 base to postmedial line, the mediau nervure and base of veins arising 

 from it streaked with grey ; subbasal line represented by black strias 

 from costa and cell, defined by grey on outer side and with slight 

 black streaks below it towards inner margin ; antemedial line 

 double filled in with grey, the outer line strong, the inner 

 indistinct, waved ; claviform with its extremity defined by black ; 

 orbicular and reniform with fuscous centres and ochreous-white 

 annuli defined by black, the former small, rounded, the latter 

 narrow, the cell between them and the area beyond the reniform 

 suffused with black ; traces of a waved medial line ; postmedial 

 line dentate and produced to white and black points on the veins, 

 bent outwards below costa and incurved below vein 4, some white 

 points on costa beyond it ; subterminal line ochreous white, even, 

 prominent, defined on inner side by irregular, difi'used, dentate 

 black marks, angled outwards at vein 7 and slightly excurved at 

 middle ; a terminal series of small black lunules ; cilia intersected 

 with whitish. Hind wing fuscous brown, whitish towards base ; 

 the cilia whitish, with fuscous line at base ; the underside pale, the 

 costal and terminal areas irrorated with brown, a discoidal lunule 

 and diffused postmedial band. 



Hah. Punjab, Kulu Sultanpur ((?. Young), 1 S , Simla (Harford), 

 2 c? , 2 $ , type, (Nurse) 1 $ , Dalhousie (Harford), 2 $ . Exj). 42 

 miUim. 



1278. Polia costigera. (Plate LXXXI. fig. 11.) 



Agrotis costigera, Moore, P. Z. S. 1881, p. 350; Hmpsn. Moths Ind. ii. 

 p. 200. 



Head and thorax grey mixed with brown ; palpi blackish at 

 sides ; tegulse with medial black line ; patagia edged with some 

 black scales ; tarsi with pale rings ; abdomen grey-brown. Fore 

 wing purplish grey irrorated with black ; the costal area pinkish 

 ochreous to the postmedial line ; subbasal line represented by a 

 black striga from costa and two from cell ; antemedial line double, 

 waved, oblique, obsolescent on costal area except for a dark point ; 

 claviform large, defined by black ; orbicular and reniform moderate, 



