roLiA, 113 



middle, and with black streaks beyond it above veins 1, 5, and 6 • a 

 terminal series of small black lunules. Hind wing whitish 

 suffnsed with brown, a waved blackish terminal line ; tbe under- 

 side white irrorated with brown, a discoidal lunule and indistinct 

 waved postmedial line. 



Hah. Cai^ada {Norman), 1 S , Orilla (Bus7i\ 1 J type demissa ; 

 U.S.A., N. & E. States, Massachusetts, Beverley, 1 c? , J^ew York 

 (Doubleday), 1 ^ type, Evan's Centre (Grute), 1 cJ , 2 $. Exp. 

 42-50 miilim. 



Larva. Head pale brown, the usual reticulations and vertical 

 bands, besides a large blotch on the face of each lobe, dark brown. 

 Body dead-leaf brown, dotted with darker ; joint 2 darkly shaded ; 

 intersegmental dorsal dots, slight spots above the subbasal line, 

 which become heavy on joints 12 and 13, of the same dark colour. 

 Subdorsal line obscure, showing a yellowish speck below tubercle ii. 

 A narrow dark brown suprastigmatal line ; a narrow dorsal bar on 

 joint 12. Feet coloured like the bodv. — H. G. D. 



*1283. Polia rogenhoferi. (Plate LXXXI. fig. 13.) 



Mamestra rcgcnhoferi, Moschl. Stett. ent. Zeit. sxsi. p. 269 (1870); Smith, 

 Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 114 ; Stand. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 1.56. 



S . Head and thorax grey-white mixed with dark brown and 

 black ; tegulse with black medial line ; tarsi ringed with white ; 

 abdomen fuscous and grey, the dorsal crests blackish. Fore wing 

 grej--white, slightly tinged with fuscous and thickly irrorated with 

 black, the scaling rough ; subbasal line represented by double black 

 striae filled in with white from costa and median nervure ; ante- 

 medial line double, black filled in with white, angled outwards 

 below costa, bent inwards in cell, then waved ; claviform small, 

 defined by black ; orbicular and reniform large, whitish defined by 

 black, the former round, the latter with white point on its inner 

 side at lower angle of cell ; medial shade strong, oblique from costa 

 to median nervure, then indistinct, waved ; postmedial line strongly 

 dentate and produced to black streaks with white points on them 

 on the veins, bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then 

 oblique, some whitish points beyoud it on costa ; subterminal line 

 represented by a series of black and white dentate marks, those 

 above and below vein 5 stronger, slightly angled outwards at vein 

 7 and excurved at middle, connected by diflused fuscous with the 

 terminal series of black lunules. Hind wing whitish irrorated 

 with fuscous brown ; a diffused irregular subterminal band and 

 terminal series of black strife ; the underside with black discoidal 

 lunule and sinuous postmedial line showing through to upperside. 



Hah. Canada, Labrador, W. Manitoba, in Coll. J. B. Smith. Exp. 

 46 miilim. 



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