142 NOCTUID-E. 



German y, Zoller & Frey Colls. ; Switzerland, Zeller & Frey 

 Colls. ; Norway, Romsdal, Frey Coll. ; Russia, Livonia, Zeller Coll. ; 

 W. TuRKESTAx, Issyk-kul ; E. Turkestan, Hi ; Amurland ; Kam- 

 scnATGA; Kashmir, Sciiide Valley {Leech), 1 $ type poUostiyma. 

 Exp. 32-42 niillim. 



Larva. Mevr. Brit. Lep. p. 82; Barrett, Lep. Brit. iv. p. 193, pi. 158. f. 3. 



Brown with darker freckles ; dorsal line narrow, dark ; a sub- 

 dorsal series of oblique dark and light markings ; spiracular line 

 whitish ; head pale brown Avith darker freckles. Food-plants : 

 Salix, Txissilago. 7-8. 



*1317. Polia gasiva. (Plate LXXXI. fig. 32.) 



Amaihes gasiva, Scluuis, J. X. Y. Ent. Soc. vi. p. 108 (1898). 



c? . Head and thorax grey and dark brown; abdomen grej'- 

 brown, with the dorsal crests darker. Fore wing grey strongly 

 irrorated with dark brown, sufTused in parts w4th black-brown, 

 especially on medial area, and slightly with red-brown ; a waved 

 snbbasal black line from costa to vein 1 ; a waved anteraedial line 

 oblique from costa to below cell where it is obtusely angled ; clavi- 

 form small, outlined with black ; orbicular and rcniform grey 

 defined by black, the diffused medial dark shade passing between 

 them, the orbicular large, round, the reniform with black point 

 above it on costa ; the black postmedial line dentate, bent outwards 

 below costa, excurved to vein 4, then oblique ; the subterminal 

 line grey defined on each side by dark brown, excurved at vein 7 

 and at middle and slightly angled inwards at veins 5 and 2 ; the 

 veins of terminal area streaked with black. Hind wing whitish 

 strongly tinged with brown especially towards termen ; cilia whitish, 

 with a brown line near base ; the underside grey irrorated with 

 brown ; a dark discoidal point and indistinct curved postmedial 

 line. 



Hah. Mexico, Las Vigas, type t cj" in Coll. Schaus. Exp. 28 

 millim. 



*1318. Folia paranica. (Plate LXXXII. fig. 1.) 



Mamestra paranica, Schaus, J. N. Y. Ent. Soc. xi. p. 231 (1903). 



5 . Head and thorax grey mixed with black and brown ; palpi 

 blackish at sides ; tarsi banded black and white ; abdomen grey 

 irrorated with fuscous. Fore wing violaceous grey, irrorated and 

 in places suffused with black ; subbasal line double, black filled in 

 with white, waved, from costa to vein 1, the area beyond it olive- 

 green, to the oblique waved antemedial line, defined by white on 

 inner side and connected with postmedial line by a blackish streak 

 in submedian fold ; medial area with the interspaces olive-green ; 

 orbicular small, round, white with olive-green centre and some 

 white above it on costa and below it ; reniform rather ill-defined, 



