134 NOCTiriD.1:. 



at middle and the area beyond it darker ; a terminal series of 

 small black lunules; cilia intersected with whitish. Hind wing 

 whitish suffused with brown, darker on teruiinal area; cilia 

 yellowish white ; the underside white irrorated with brown, a dark 

 discoidal spot and curved postmedial line. 



Hah. Canada {Norman), 1 c? , Calgary ( Wolhy-Dod), 1 6,1 $ ; 

 U.S.A., E. States, 2 6 type, Massachusetts, 2 c? » Wisconsin, 

 Virginia. Exp. 36 millim. 



1306. Folia vidua. (Plate LXXXI. fig. 27.) 



Mamedra vidua, Stand. Stett. cnt. Zeit. 1888, p. 17; id. Cat. Lep. pal. 

 p. 159. 



J . Head and thorax grey mixed with brown; frons with black 

 bar above ; tegula) with black line near tips ; tarsi with white 

 rings ; abdomen brownish grey. Fore wing grey suffused and 

 irrorated with dark brown, the medial area more strongly suffused 

 with brown except on costal area ; subbasal line black, slightly 

 angled outwards on median nervure, ending on the rather wedge- 

 shaped black streak below base of cell ; antemcdial line black 

 defined by whitish on inner side, angled outwards below costa, then 

 waved and angled inwards on vein 1 ; claviform large, defined by 

 black ; orbicular and reniform large, with brownish centres and 

 white annuli defined by black, the former oblique elliptical, its 

 lower extremity nearly touching the latter, which is somewhat 

 concave on inner side ; traces of a waved medial line ; postmedial 

 line black, defined by whitish on outer side, minutely waved, bent 

 outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then incurved, some pale 

 points beyond it on costa ; subtcrminal line white with slight 

 dentate brown marks before it at middle, angled outwards at vein 7 

 and dentate to termen at veins 4, 3, the area beyond it rather 

 darker except at apex ; a terminal series of small black lunules ; 

 the underside grey irrorated with brown, a small discoidal spot and 

 sinuous postmedial line. 



Hah. W. Turkestan, Ferghana, Issyk-kul, 1 J . Exj). 30 millim. 



1307. Polia splendens. 



^'octua spkndens, Hiibn. Eur. Schmett., Noct. f. 400 (1827) ; Herr.-Schiiff. 

 Eur. Schuiett., Noct. f. 39t); Staud. Cat. Lep. pa], p. li")7. 



Head and thorax bright purplish red to pale dull rufous ; tegulfs 

 with slight medial line ; abdomen ochreous tinged with purplish 

 red or rui'ous. Fore wing bright purplish red to pale rufous, the 

 veins and costal area irrorated with white ; a dark rufous streak 

 below base of cell; subbasal line indistinct, white, waved, from 

 costa to submedian fold ; antemedial line waved ; claviform small 

 to moderate, defined by rufous ; orbicular and reniform irrorated 

 with white and with fine white annuli defined by rufous, the former 

 oblique, irregularly elliptical, a sinuous medial shade oblique from 

 costa to lower angle of cell, where it is angled ; postmedial lino 



