1-14 noctiiii.t:. 



13i'0. Polia auguina. (Plate LXXXJI. lig. 3.) 



Mamestra anquina, Grote, Can. Enfc. xiii. p. 129 (1881); Smith, Cat. Noct. 



N. Am. p. "1-28. 

 Mamestra /ar/s.srt, Smith, Ent. Ne\v8 Pliilad. vi. p. 3.38, pi. xv. f. 11 (1895); 



Dyar, Oat. Lep. N. Am. p. 152. 



Head and thorax blaek-brown mixed with white : frons with 

 blackish bar; tcgula? with stronj? medial black line ; tarsi banded 

 black and wliite ; abdomen whitish thickly irrorated with reddish 

 brown, the dorsal crests blackish at tips. Fore wing blue-grey 

 irrorated and suffused with fuscous brown, the medial area darker ; 

 a fine black streak below base of cell ; subbasal line double, waved, 

 from costa to submedian fold, and with an obli(]ue striga beyond it 

 from subcostal nervure to submedian fold ; antcmedial line double, 

 curved, hardly waved ; claviform large, defined by black ; orbicular 

 and reniforra large, with brown centres and grey annuli defined by 

 black ; postmedial line double, the outer line strong, crenulate and 

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

 excurved to vein 4, then incurved and touching reniform and clavi- 

 form, some grey points beyond it on costa ; subterminal line grey 

 slightly defined by brown, and with a dark patch before it on costa, 

 excurved at vein 7 and middle, angled inwards at submedian fold, 

 where it is crossed by a black streak extending to termen ; a fine 

 dark terminal line ; cilia chequered grey and fuscous. Hind wing 

 white, the veins brownish, the costal and terminal areas tinged with 

 brown, nearly uniformly sufiused with fuscous in female ; cilia 

 white, with a dark line through them ; the underside with dark 

 irroration on costal area, an indistinct sinuous postmedial line. 



Hah. Canada, Alberta, Calgary ( WoUey-Dod), 3 cj" , 3 $ ; U.S.A., 

 Maine, New Jersey, Illinois, 1 cT type, Nebraska, Colorado, Arizona, 

 Prescott {Kunze), 1 cJ , 2 § . Exp. 32 millim. 



1321. Polia vicina. (Plato LXXXII. fig. 4.) 



Mamestra viciva, Grote, Bull. Buff. Soc. Nat. Sci. ii. p. 156 (1874); 



Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 128. 

 MameMra teVujera, IVJorr. I'roc. Eost. Soc. N. H. xvii. p. 215 (1874). 

 Mainestra acuiipennis, Grote, C;in. Eiit. xii. p. 214 (1880). 



Head and thorax clothed with dark brown and grey scales ; 

 palpi black at sifles ; Irons with black bar ; tcgulce with black 

 medial line ; patagia edged with black ; tarsi banded with black ; 

 abdomen grey irrorated with brown, the dorsal crests dark at tips. 

 Fore wing whitish, siiflTused and irrorated with fuscous; a sinuous 

 black streak below base of cell ; subbasal line indistinct, double, 

 angled outwards in cell and ending at submedian fold ; antemedial 

 line double, nearly even, oblique from costa to submedian fold 

 where it is angled ; claviform usually narrow and acute, often filled 

 in with black, and with a rufous streak above it; orbicular and 

 reniform with slight whitish annuli defined by black, the former 

 oblique elliptical ; postmedial line defined by grey on outer side. 



