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brown, the veins and terminal area brown ; cilia white with a 

 brown line through them ; the underside with the costal area 

 suffused with rufous, a dark discoidal spot, curved postmedial line, 

 and traces of a pale subterminal line. 



Ab. 1. rucavaarce. Dark purplish grey-brown instead of rufous. 

 — Finland, Lapland, E, Siberia. 



Ab. 2. palJens. Fore wing pale brown with a yellowish tinge, 

 the markings less prominent. — Iceland ; W. Turkestan. 



Rub. Britain, Scotland, England, Leech Coll. ; France, Sand 

 Coll. ; Germany, Zeller and Frey Colls. ; Italy ; Iceland ; Scandi- 

 navia, Zeller Coll. ; Hussia, Finland, Leech Coll., Livonia, Zeller 

 Coll. ; W. Turkestan, Ala Tau, Issyk-kul ; Mongolia, Urga ; S.E. 

 Siberia, Dauria, Ussuri. Exp. 36-42 millim. 



Larva. Meyr. Brit. Lep. p. 85 ; Barrett, Lep. Brit. iv. p. 183, pi. 157. f. 2. 



Green or purple-brown with black dots ; subdorsal line yellow, 

 black-edged ; spiracular line yellow or pale greenish, black-edged 

 above ; head pale green or pinkish ochreous ; legs sometimes 

 pinkish. Food-plants : Fteris, Cytisus, Scahiosa, etc. 8-10. 



1310. Polia tacoma. (Plate LXXXI. fig. 28.) 



Mamestra tacoma, Streck. Lep. Rbop. & Het., Suppl. 3, p. 31 (1900) ; 

 Dyar, Cat. Lep. N. Am. p. 156. 



Head and thorax violaceous grey mixed with rufous; palpi, 

 patagia, pectus, and legs mostly rufous ; tegulae with rufous medial 

 line and tips ; abdomen grey tinged with rufous, the anal tuft 

 rufous, the ventral surface rufous irrorated with grey. Fore wing 

 violaceous grey ; the costal area suffused with rufous except at 

 apex, before postmedial line extending to median nervure and before 

 antemedial line to submedian fold ; subbasal line double filled in 

 with grey, waved, from costa to vein 1 ; antemedial line double 

 filled in with grey, oblique and slightly waved ; claviform moderate, 

 rufous strongly defined by black ; orbicular large, grey defined by 

 black, open above and confluent with a grey patch on costa, some- 

 what oblique elliptical ; reniform rufous, with grey annulus defined 

 by black, the cell before and between the stigmata and the base of 

 interspaces above veins 2, 3 tinged with black, leaving the veins 

 streaked with grey; a waved medial line from cell to inner margin 

 approximated to the postmedial line, which is double, dentate and 

 produced to streaks on the veins, bent outwards below costa and 

 incurved below vein 4 ; some pale points on costa towards apex ; 

 subterminal line whitish, obsolete towards costa, then slightly de- 

 fined by rufous on inner side, the area beyond it rufous except at 

 apex, angled outwards at vein 7 and dentate at veins 4, 3. Hind 

 wing ochreous whiti.sh tinged with brown, the terminal area brown 

 except at submedian fold ; cilia ochreous white, with a dark line 

 through them ; the underside whitish, the costal and terminal areas 

 irrorated with rufous, a discoidal lunule and curved postmedial 

 line. 



