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defined on inner side by small dentate black marks at middle, 

 angled outwards at vein 7 and dentate to near termen on veins 4, 3; 

 a pale line at base of cilia. Hind wing uniform reddish brown ; 

 the cilia pale, with a brown line through them ; the underside grey, 

 irrorated and suffused with reddish brown, a small diseoidal spot 

 and curved postmedial line. 



Hcb. U.S.A., California, in F.S. Xat. Mus. Exp. 36 millim. 



Larva. Head luteous with brown reticulations and bands. Body 

 brown, reticulate and dotted on a yellowish-brown ground. Faint 

 brown shades form an obscure dorsal lattice marking. Ordinary 

 lines faintly indicated, pale, the dorsal and subdorsal narrow, the 

 substigmatal broad. Feet pale. — H. G. D. 



1313. Polia softa. (Plate LXXXI. fig. 30.) 



Mamestra softa, Staud. Iris, x. p. 275, pi. 4. f. 15 (1897) ; id. Cat. Lep. 

 pal. p. 159. 



Head and thorax grey mixed with reddish brown and fuscous ; 

 tegulse edged with blackish above ; tarsi with blackish bands ; 

 abdomen whitish irrorated with brown. Fore wing grey, tinged 

 with pale red-brown and irrorated with fuscous and black; sub- 

 basal line obsolete ; an oblique pale streak below the cell before 

 the antemedial line, which is indistinct, double, oblique from costa 

 to submedian fold, angled inwards on vein 1 and outwards above 

 inner margin ; claviform moderate, indistinctly defined by brown; 

 orbicular and reniform indistinctly defined by brown, the former 

 small, round, or oblique elliptical, open above, the latter with some 

 fuscous in its lower part ; postmedial line defined by whitish on 

 outer side, minutely dentate and produced to short dark streaks on 

 the veins, bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then 

 incurved, some pale points beyond it on costa ; subterminal liae 

 whitish, defined by reddish brown on inner side and the area beyond 

 it darker, angled outwards at vein 7 and to termen at veins 4, 3 ; a 

 terminal series of small black lunules. Hind wing pure white, the 

 veins slightly irrorated with black ; the underside with the costal 

 area irrorated with fuscous, a diseoidal lunule and curved post- 

 medial line. 



Hah. Morocco ; Palestine, 1 (5,1 $ . Exp.., S 38, 5 40 millim. 



1314. Polia sutrina. (Plate LXXXI. fig. 31.) 



Mamestra suirma, Grote, Papilio, i. p. 5 (1881) ; Smith, Cat. Noct. X. Am. 

 i. p. 127. 



S . Head and thorax grey mixed with some black, and tinged 

 with ochreous except patagia ; tegulag with black medial line ; 

 patagia edged with black on outer side ; tarsi banded with black ; 

 abdomen grey-brown, the dorsal crests tipped with black. Fore 

 wing bluish white irrorated and suffused with dark brown, the 

 medial area slightly darker ; a black streak in submedian fold to 

 postmedial line, interrupted by the lines ; subbasal line represented 



