152 NOCTUID^. 



rings ; abdomen brown. Fore winj^ grey suffused witli brown and 

 irrorated with black ; the subbasal and anlemedial lines waved, 

 ■whitish defined on each side with black, the former from costa to 

 submedian fold, the latter oblifjuc ; claviform large, pale brownish 

 with white outline; .orbicular and renitbrm with brownish centres 

 and wliilish annuli, the former round, the latter moderate, the cell 

 between them blackish ; postmedial line whitish defined on each 

 side by black, minutely waved, bent outwards below costa, excurved 

 to vein 3, then oblique ; subterminal line whitish, angled outwards 

 slightly at vein 7 and excurved at middle, with a series of dentate 

 black marks on its inner side ; a terminal series of black points. 

 Hind wing brown ; the cilia whitisli at lips ; the underside whitish 

 with slight discoidal spot ; the terminal area suffused with fuscous 

 from costa to vein 2. 



Hah. YicxoEiA, Melbourne, type t $ in Coll. Lower. Exp. 32 

 millim. 



1334. Polia calberlai. (riate LXXXII. fig. 15.) 



Hadcna calberlai, Staud. Steti. ent. Zeit. 1883, p. 181 ; Calb. Ins, i. p. 182, 

 pi. 12. f. 9 ; Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 159. 



Head, thorax, and abdomen pale greyish brown mixed with 

 black ; tegulje with ill-defined blackish medial line, patagia edged 

 with blackish. Fore wing pale greyish brown suffused and irrorated 

 with fuscous, the medial area slightly darker; subbasal line black, 

 angled outwards below costa and ending on the rather wedge- 

 shaped black streak below base of cell ; antemedial line indistinctly 

 double, waved, oblique from costa to submedian fold, then angled 

 inwards on vein 1 ; claviform defined by black, large, acute at 

 extremity and extending to postmedial line; orbicular and reniform 

 with pale annuli, defined by black and with more or less black 

 suffusion in cell before and between them, the former rounded, the 

 latter angled inwards on median nervure ; an indistinct difi'used 

 medial line ; postmedial line double, the inner line black, the outer 

 indistinct, very minutely dentate, bent outwards below costa, 

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

 costa; subterminal line pale, defined by fuscous on inner side and 

 with slight black streaks before it above and below vein 5, angled 

 outwards at vein 7 and excurved at middle, the area beyond it 

 suffused with fuscous except at apex, a terminal series of slight 

 black lunnles. Hind wing fuscous brown, the cilia with an 

 ochreous-white line at base ; the underside whitish irrorated with 

 brown, a small discoidal spot and diffused curved postmedial 

 line. 



Hah. Austria, S. Tirol, 1 c^ , 1 $ ; Italy. Exp. 36 millim. 

 Larva on Clematis vitalha. 



