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NOCTUID^. 



Illinois, Minnesota, Missouri, Kansas, 1 c? {Snoiv). Exp. 40-44 

 millini. 



Larva. Head luteous, reticulate and banded -with brown. Body 

 robust, joint 12 enlarged ; soft olivaceous green, dorsal and sub- 

 dorsal lines pale, obscure; dark green oblique patches on joints 5, 

 fi, aud 12, on tlio latter broadening below over subdorsal region. 

 Oblique lines indicated on the other segments. Faint reversed dark 

 shades subventrally, forming a band on thorax, edged above by the 

 elsewhere obsolete white substigmatal line. Cervical shield dark, 

 with three white lines. — H. G. D. 



*1290. Polia dilatata. (Plate LXXXVI. fig. 9.) 



Mamestra dilatata, Smitli, Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus. xxii. p. 464 (1900) ; Dyar, 

 Cat. Lep. N. Am. p. 156. 



2 . Head yellowish, with grey tuft between antennae ; tegulae 

 white, with broad black medial line and fuscous lips ; patagia white, 

 mixed with black and olive scales and edged with black ; abdomen 

 brownish grey. Fore wing white, mixed with fuscous, yellowish, 

 olive, and black scales ; the costal half of basal area white, the 

 inner half grey ; subbasal line double, black, interrupted in cell, its 

 outer side below the cell forming an oblique mark defining the 

 white area ; antemedial line double, black filled in with white, 

 oblique towards costa and angled inwards on vein 1 ; claviform 

 small, with white centre defined by black ; orbicular small, round, 

 with white centre defined by black ; reniform well developed, with 

 grey centre and white annulus defined by black ; medial sliade only 

 traceable at costa and inner margin ; postmedial line double, black 

 filled in with white, minutely waved, bent outwards below costa 

 and oblique below vein 4; subterminal line white, interrupted, 

 irregular, defined on inner side by a fuscous patch at costa and 

 somewhat dentate marks at middle, and by some fuscous on outer 

 side, angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at middle ; cilia 

 white, with series of black lunules at base and olive lunules at tips. 

 Hind wing fuscous brown, paler at base; cilia white, with fuscous 

 line through them on costal half; the underside whitish, the costal 

 area irrorated with fuscous, a discoidal lunule and broad post- 

 medial line. 



Hub. U.S.A., New Mexico. Exp. 30 millim. This species is 

 unknown to me; figured from a drawing fi'om type in U.S. Xat. 

 Mus. 



*1291. Polia variolata. (Plate LXXXVI. fig. 10.) 



Mamestra variolata, Smith, Pr. U.S. Kat. Mus. x. p. 467(1887); id. Cat. 

 Noct. N. Am. p. 122. 



(^. Head and thorax yellowish tinged with olive, the patagia 

 and thorax with white blotches, the tegulae with black medial line; 

 abdomen brownish grey. Fore ■wing grey, tinged with ochreou.s 

 and olive-brown ; costal half of basal area with the basal half 

 white, the outer black, the white area traversed by the dark 



