132 NOCTirrDiK. 



latter purplish grey, its centro defined by fuscous, slightly angled 

 inwards on median nervure and almost touoliing former ; an in- 

 distinct medial line, oblique from costa to below cell ; postmedial 

 lino double, filled in with purplish, dentate, bent outwards below 

 costa, and oblique below vein 5, some pale points beyond it on 

 costa : subterminal line white, defined by fuscous on inner side, 

 forming somewhat dentate marks below costa and at middle, angled 

 outwards at vein 7 and dentate to near tormen on veins 4, 3 ; a 

 Terminal series of small dentate black marks ; a whitish line at base 

 of cilia. Hind wing whitish suffused with brown ; cilia whitish ; 

 underside whitish irrorated with brown, a discoidal lunule, dentate 

 postmedial line, and traces of diffused subterminal band. 



Hah. Tibet, Kuku-noor ; E, Siberia, Ussuri, 1 S . Exp. 

 38 millim. 



1303. Polia liquida. (Plate LXXXI. fig. 24.) 



Mamestra liquida, Grote, Papilio, i. p. 58 (1881); Smitb, Cat. Noct. N. 

 Am. p. 116. 



Head and thorax blue-grey mixed with red-brown ; tegulse with 

 dark brown medial line followed by rufous ; patagia with some 

 black scales above ; abdomen grey, the anal tuft ochreous. Fore 

 wing blue-grey ; the subbasal line represented by black spots below 

 costa and cell, defined by blue-grey on outer side, the costal area 

 beyond it suftused with red-brown to subterminal line, on medial 

 area extending to submedian fold or vein 1 ; antemedial line double 

 filled in with blue-grey, angled outwards below costa, then oblique 

 ■waved ; claviform well developed, defined by black and filled in 

 ■with fuscous ; orbicular and reniform rather narrow, with brownish 

 centres and whitish annuli defined by black, the former oblique 

 elliptical, with a grey streak below it on vein 2, often developed 

 into a prominent wedge-shaped mark ; postmedial line double, 

 filled in with blue-grey, minutely dentate and produced to black 

 points on the veins, bent ou' wards below costa, slightlj' incurved 

 at discal fold, oblique below vein 4, the area beyond it blue-grey 

 except towards costa, on which are some white points ; subterminal 

 line white, defined by a red-brown line on its inner side and by the 

 area beyond it being red-brown except at apex, angled outwards at 

 vein 7 and dentate to tcrmen on veins 4, 3 ; a terminal series of 

 minute black lunules ; cilia intersected with white. Hind wing 

 white suffused with brown, leaving an ill-defined whitish postmedial 

 band ; the underside white, the costal and terminal areas irrorated 

 with brown, a dark discoidal point. 



Hah. U.S.A., Washington, 1 cj" , 2 $ type, Oregon, Colorado. 

 Exp. 40-44 milhm. 



1304. Polia radix. (Plate LXXXI. fig. 25.) 



Agrotis radix, Wlk. x. 332 (18.06); Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 117. 

 Mamestra dimmocki, Grote, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Pliil. IB?.'), p. 4-0. 

 Mamestra desperata, Smith, J'roc. U.S. Nat. Mus. xiv. p. 221 (1891). 



