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grey partly suffused with olive-green, its centre defined by black ; 

 an indistinct waved medial line ; postmedial line black, defined by 

 white on outer side, minutely dentate, bent outwards below costa, 

 excurved to vein 4, then incurved, some white points beyond it on 

 costa ; subterminal line prominent, white, waved, angled outwards 

 at vein 7, inwards at discal and submedian folds, excurved at 

 middle, with a band of olive-green before it, some green spots 

 beyond it in the interspaces, and some black in discal and sub- 

 median folds ; a terminal series of small black lunules ; cilia olive- 

 green with some black, the tips white. Hind wing ochreous white, 

 the terminal half and costal and inner areas suffused with fuscous ; 

 cilia yellowish white; the underside yellowish white, the costal area 

 irrorated with fuscous, a discoidal point, indistinct curved post- 

 medial line and diffused subterminal band. 



Hah. Brazil, Castro Paraiia, type f $ in Coll. Schaus. Exp. 

 40 millim. 



1319. PoUa cuneata. (Plate LXXXII. fig. 2.) 



Mamestra cuneata, Grote, Bull. Buff. Soc. Nat. Sci. i. p. 139, pi. 4. f. 9 

 (1873); Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 127. 



Head and thorax dark brown mixed with grey; frons with 

 black bar ; tegulce with black medial line ; patagia with white 

 patch edged with blackish ; abdomen brown and grey, the dorsal 

 crests tipped with black, the genital tuft yellowish. Fore wing 

 grey irrorated and suffused with black-brown, the medial area 

 darker ; subbasal line double, black filled in with grey, waved and 

 angled outwards at median nervure, ending at vein 1; antemedial 

 line double, filled in with grey, obliquely waved and angled inwards 

 on vein 1 ; claviform well-developed, defined by black ; orbicular 

 and reniform with greyish annuli defined by black, the former 

 rather oblique elliptical ; postmedial line defined by grej- on outer 

 side, dentate and produced to grey and black streaks on the veins, 

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

 pale points beyond it on costa; subterminal line whitish, defined 

 on inner side by slight black and yellow dentate marks at middle 

 and more prominent spot in submedian fold, angled outwards at 

 vein 7 and excurved at middle, the area beyond it rather darker ; a 

 terminal series of small black lunules. Hind wing fuscous brown ; 

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

 thickly irrorated with brown, a discoidal point and sinuous post- 

 medial line. 



Ab. 1. Fore wing with the basal area tinged with red, the 

 stigmata and terminal area whiter. 



Ab. 2. Fore wing almost entirely tinged with red. 



Hob. Canada, Vancouver I. ; U.S.A., Washington, 2 $ , Oregon, 

 California, 3 d , 2 2 type, (WaJsinyham) 2 J,l $, Mendocino, 

 1 2 ■ E^P' 24 millim. 



