128 NOCTUIDJE. 



black scales on upper edge ; abdomen grey mixed with fuscous. 

 Fore wing grey with a violaceous tinge and slight brown suffusion, 

 the medial area brown except towards costa and inner margin ; 

 subbasal line re])resented by double black stria) from costa and cell 

 filled in with white ; autemedial line double filled in with white, 

 waved from costa to vein 1, then strongly angled outwards, some- 

 times almost to postmedial line ; claviform large, brown defined by 

 black, acute at extremity, a bidentate white mark above it on 

 vein 2 ; orbicular and reniform small, defined by black, the former 

 oblique elliptical, white with slight brown centre, the latter brown 

 with slight white annulus ; postmedial line defined by white on 

 outer side, angled outwards below costa and sharply at vein 5, then 

 incurved and angled on veins 2 and 1 ; subterminal line white, 

 defined on inner side by dentate black marks below costa and at 

 middle, angled outwards at vein 7 and dentate to termen at 

 veins 4, 3, the area beyond it suffused with brown ; a terminal series 

 of small black lunules ; cilia intersected with white. Hind wing 

 white ; the veins, base, and inner area suffused with brown ; a 

 broad terminal fuscous-brown band ; cilia white ; the underside 

 sparsely irrorated with brown, a small discoidal lunule, crenulate 

 postmedial line, and diffused subterminal band. 



Hab. W. Turkestan, Issyk-kul, 1 c?, 1 $; E. Turkestan, Hi; 

 Kashmir, Kardong, l^,^W\Mc.Arthur), 4 S , Digha Pass, 15,000' 

 {Mc Arthur), 4^ S • Exp. '60 m\\\\m. 



*1297. Polia eversmanni. (Plate LXXXI. fig. 20.) 



Mamestra eversmanni, Staud. Iris, xii. p. 367, pi. 6. f. 14 (1900); id. Cat. 

 Lep. pal. p. 160. 



2 . Head and thorax grey tinged with fulvous and mixed with 

 some black scales ; tarsi blackish, with pale rings ; abdomen whitish 

 tinged with fuscous, the anal tuft with ochreous. Fore wiug grey, 

 tinged with purplish and suffused with brown, especially on medial 

 and terminal areas ; subbasal line double, dentate, from costa to 

 vein 1 ; antemedial line double, irregularly waved, from costa to 

 submedian fold, angled inwards on vein 1 and more strongly out- 

 wards above inner margin ; claviform large, fuscous brown defined 

 by black, acute at extremity, a prominent bidentate whitish mark 

 beyond it on base of vein 2; orbicular and reniform moderate, 

 defined by black, the former rounded, whitish with brown centre, 

 the latter greyish with whitish annulus ; a medial line oblique from 

 costa to vein 2, then dentate ; a double postmedial line, bent out- 

 wards below costa, incurved at discal fold, incurved between veins 

 5 and 2 and at inner margin ; subterminal line yellowish white, 

 defined on inner side by dentate black marks below costa and at 

 middle, angled outwards at vein 7, dentate to termen at veins 4, 3, 

 and bent outwards to tornus ; a terminal series of black lunules ; 

 cilia brown intersected with white. Hind wiug pure white, the 

 reins, basal and inner areas sufi'used with fuscous ; the terminal 



