roLTA. 147 



line strong, white defined by blackish on inner side and with 

 dentate black marks between it and termen, espandino; into white 

 patches at apex and between veins 4, 3 extending to termen ; cilia 

 with a hue white line at base. Hind wing white slightly tinged 

 with brown, the veins and a fine terminal line browner ; the 

 underside with a small discoidal spot and sinuous -postmedial line. 



Hab. SiKKiM (Kni/vett), typet $ in Coll. Elwes. Exj^). 42 

 millim. 



1325. Polia albomarginata. 



Celcsna alhomarginata, Druce, Biol. Centr.-Ara., Het. ii. p. 478, pi. 93. 

 f. 23 (1898). 



2 , Head and thorax white mixed with purple-black ; palpi 

 black at sides ; legs banded black and white ; abdomen fuscous 

 black. Fore wing purplish grey suffused in parts with black, the 

 medial area black, the terminal area yellowish white sparsely 

 irrorated with black ; a black point on costa at base ; subbasal line 

 double, black filled in with white, angled inwards and interrupted 

 in cell, from costa to submedian fold ; antemedial line fine, white 

 defined by black, angled outwards below costa where it is developed 

 into a pinkish-white spot, then oblique, sinuous, and excurved 

 above inner margin ; claviform only defined by having a lunulate 

 white spot beyond it ; orbicular and reniform w^ell-developed, 

 pinkish with slight white annuli and connected by a pinkish fascia 

 on median nervure, beyond the cell bent downwards and ending on 

 subterrainal line at vein 3; the orbicular oblique elliptical and 

 connected with a pinkish spot on costa ; postmedial line whitish 

 defined on each side by black, arising from a pinkish spot on costa, 

 bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 5, then incurved and 

 sinuous, some white points beyond it on costa ; subterminal line 

 only defined by the contrast between the white and purple areas, 

 and by black patches on its inner side at costa aud inner margin, 

 somewhat dentate at veins 4, 3, 2, where it is defined by slight 

 pinkish lunules on outer side : a fine black terminal line ; ciha 

 intersected by black. Hind wing black-brown ; cilia white, black 

 at apex and chequered with black at middle ; the underside with 

 the basal half of costal area irrorated with white, whitish towards 

 inner margin, a small discoidal spot and curved postmedial line. 



Hah. CosTA Rica, Candelaria Mts. {Undei-wood), 1 $ type, 

 Godman-Salvin Coll. Exp. 32 millim. 



1326. Polia mista. (Plate LXXXII. fig. 8.) 



Mamestra mista, Staud. Stett. ent. Zeit. 1889, p. 35; id. Cat. Lep. pal. 

 p. 158. 



Head and thorax grey-white mixed with some dark brown ; 

 palpi blackish at sides ; frons wnth dark bar above ; patagia with 

 some black scales on upper edge : abdomen grey irrorated with 

 brown. Fore w'ing grev irrorated with golden brown ; the cell 



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