poLU 133 



Head and thorax purplish red-brown slightly mixed with grey ; 

 palpi blackish at sides ; tegulae with black medial line ; abdomen 

 pale red-brown. Fore wing rieep red-brown slightly suffused with 

 grey ; a sinuous black streak below base of cell ; a double, waved 

 subbasal line from costa to submedian fold ; a double, oblique, 

 waved antemedial line ; claviform slightly defined by black ; orbi- 

 cular and reniform large, slightly defined by black, the former 

 irregulaT-ly elliptical, the latter extending to below cell ; an. irregular 

 medial line angled outwards on median nervure ; postmedial line 

 defined by greyish on outer side, dentate, bent outwards below 

 costa, excurved to vein 4, then incurved ; subterminal line whitish, 

 defined by somewhat dentate red-brown marks on inner side, 

 angled outwards below costa and dentate nearly to termen on 

 veins 4, 3. Hind wing fuscous brown, the cilia whitish ; the 

 underside whitish thickly irrorated with dark brown, a dark 

 discoidal spot and curved postmedial line. 



Bab. CiifADA, Hudson's Bay, St. Martins Falls (Barnston), 1 ^ 

 type, Nova Scotia (Redman), 1 2 , Calgary ( Wolley-Dod), 1^,2$; 

 U.S.A., Maine, 1 $, New Hampshire, White Mts. (VimmocJc), 1 $ 

 type dimmocli, Colorado, California, Sierra Xevuda. Exj). 40 millim. 



Larva. (Original.) Head heavily reticulate with black, the pale 

 luteous ground appearing in small dotted patches. Body light 

 grey-brown, the tubercles, a series oi cuneiform subdorsal patches, 

 and a stigmatal shade blackish. Tb<- subdorsal patches are a little 

 oblique, sharply terminated behind, and the pair on joint 12 are 

 confluent. Faint yellowish dorsal and subdorsal lines. Cervical 

 shield and anal plate darkened. Snbstigraatal band broad, slightly 

 paler than the ground-colour. 



A general feeder. — H. G. D. 



1305. Polia atlantica. (Plate LXXXI. fig. 20.) 



Hadena w-latimim, Guen. Noct. ii. p, J04 (part.), nee Eiifu. 



Maviestra atlantica, Grote, Bull. Eufl'. Soc. Kat. Sci. ii. p. 12 (1874); 



Smith, Cal. Koct. Tv. Am. p. 117. 

 Mameitra discolor, Speyer, Stett. ent. Zeit. sxxvi. p. 142 (1875). 



S . Head and thorax grey-browu with a reddish tinge ; palpi 

 blackish at sides, frons witli black bar ; tegulae with black medial 

 line ; abdomen grey-brown tinged with reddish. Fore wing grey- 

 brown sufiused with rufous, except the costal area to beyond middle; 

 a sinuous black streak below base of cell ; a subbasal black striga 

 from costa ; antemedial line defined by grey on inner side, angled 

 outwards below costa and inwards on subcostal and median nervures 

 and vein 1, excurved below cell; ciaviform moderate, defined by 

 black and filled in with brown ; orbicular and reniform with greyish 

 annuli defined by black, the former oblique elliptical, open above, 

 the latter extending to below cell ; a dark shade beyond lower 

 angle of cell ; some pale points on costa towards the subterminal 

 line, which is yellowish while, angled outwards at vein 7, and 

 dentate to termen on veins -I, 3, some dentate black marks before it 



