poijA. 127 



defined by fine white streaks ; terminal area brown except at apex, 

 extending to inner side of the subterminal line which is white, 

 angled outwards at vein 7 and dentate to termen on veins 4, 3. 

 Hind wing whitish tinged with brown, the terminal area suffused 

 with fuscous ; the underside white, the costal and terminal areas 

 irroratcd with brown, a small discoidal spot and 'sinuous punctiform 

 postmedial lino. 



Hab. S.E. Russia, Sarepta, 2 J , Zeller Coll. ; Armenia ; W. Tur- 

 kestan, Ferghana, Issyk-kul ; E. Turkestan, Khashgar; Kashmir, 

 Nubra {McArthur), 2 S . Exp. 34 millim. 



*1295. Polia prodeniformis. (Plate LXXXI. fig. 18.) 



Maviestra prodeniformis. Smith, Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus. x. p. 464 (1887) ; 

 Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 117. 



5 . Head and thorax dark brown mixed with grey and black ; 

 tegula3 with black medial line ; abdomen reddish brown, the ventral 

 surface whitish irrorated with brown. Pore wing whitish with a 

 slight violaceous tinge, suffused in. parts with reddish brown and 

 fuscous, especially on medial area and costal area before subterminal 

 line ; a black streak below base of cell interrupted by the black- 

 edged white striga representing the subbasal line, with a whitish 

 patch beyond it outwardly edged by black ; antemedial line double, 

 black filled in with white, obsolete on costal area, augled inwards 

 on vein 1, then very strongly outward above inner margin ; 

 claviform large, defined by black, a dentate whitish mark beyond 

 it on vein 2 ; orbicular and reniform with white annuli defined by 

 black, the former oblique elliptical, open above and forming a 

 U-shaped mark with its arms produced outwards above, the latter 

 with its outer part tinged with pale rufous and its lower with 

 black ; an indistinct medial line obliquely incurved from costa to 

 below end of cell, then dentate ; postmedial line indistinctly double, 

 bent outwards below costa, incurved at discal fold and below vein 5, 

 slightly excurved below vein 2 ; subterminal line white, defined on 

 inner side by irregular dentate black marks, angled outwards at 

 vein 7 and dentate to termen on veins 4, 3, the area beyond it 

 suffused with black except at apex ; a terminal series of small black 

 lunules ; cilia fuscous and whitish. Hind wing white, the veins 

 and terminal area suffused with fuscous ; the uuderside with the 

 costal and terminal areas irrorated with brown. 



Hah. U.S.A., New Mexico, Hot Springs, in coll. J. B. Smith. 

 Exp. 34 millim. 



1296. Polia furcula. (Plate LXXXI. fig. 19.) 



Mamestra furcula, Stand. Stett. ent. Zeit. 1889, p. 36 ; id. Cat. Lep. pal. 

 p. 160. 



Head and thorax grey mixed with brown and fuscous ; tegulae 

 with two more or less prominent black lines ; patagia with some 



