pouA. 155 



vein 7 and excurved at middle; a terminal series of small black 

 spots ; cilia with a whitish line at base. Hind wing dark reddish 

 brown ; cilia dark brown -nith a whitish line at base ; tbe under- 

 side brown irrorated with white, a small black discoidal lunule and 

 irregular dentate brown postmedial line. 



Hah. Guatemala, Cerro Zunil, 4000' (Champion), 1 5 type, 

 Godinan-Salvin Coll. Exj). 40 millim. 



1339. Polia eclypa. (Plate LXXXII. fig. 19.) 



Mamestra ectypa, Morr. Proc. Bost. Soc. N. H. xviii. p. 118 (1875) ; Smith, 



Cat. Noct.'N. Am. p. 124. 

 Mamestra hella, Grote, Papilio, iii. p. 30 (1883). 



S . Head and thorax dark brown mixed with grey ; tegul® 

 with black medial line and white tips, patagia with some black 

 scales near upper edge ; tarsi ringed with white ; abdomen grey- 

 brown, the segments slightly edged with grey, the anal tuft tinged 

 with ochreous. Fore wing grey, irrorated and suffused with fuscous 

 and tinged with violaceous brown before and beyond the postmedial 

 line ; subbasal line represented by double black strise from costa and 

 median nervure, with slight black marks just beyond it above vein 

 1 and on inner margin ; antemedial line represented by a black 

 spot below costa, then bent inwards, double, oblique to vein 1 and 

 angled outwards above inner margin ; claviform rather large, 

 suffused with and defined by black ; orbicular and reniform with 

 brownish centres and white annuli defined by black, the former 

 oblique elliptical, the latter large ; postmedial line double, dentate, 

 filled in with white towards costa and inner margin, bent outwards 

 below costa, excurved to vein 4, then incurved, some white points 

 beyond it on costa ; subterminal line yellowish white, defined on 

 inner side by dentate dark marks below costa and from vein 5 to 

 inner margin, slightly angled outwards at vein 7, excurved and 

 waved at middle ; a terminal series of black lunules ; cilia slightly 

 intersected with white. Hind wing pale, uniformly suffused with 

 fuscous brown, the cilia whitish with brown line through them ; 

 the underside irrorated with fuscous, the costal and terminal areas 

 suffused with fuscous, a black discoidal lunule and indistinct curved 

 postmedial line. 



Hab. U.S.A., Delaware, Dover, 1 d"; New Jersey, West Virginia. 

 Uxji). 34 millim. 



1340. Folia noverca. (Plate LXXXII. fig. 20.) 



Mamestra noverca, Grote, Can. Eut. x. p. 236 (1878) ; Smith, Cat. Noct. 

 N. Am. p. 124. 



Head and thorax rufous mixed with dark brown ; palpi blackish 

 at sides ; tarsi blackish with pale rings ; abdomen pale reddish 

 irrorated with dark brown ; subbasal line waved, black, defined by 

 greyish on outer side and with a slight black streak beyond its 



