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marks before it. Hiu':! wing pure wliite ; the apex tinged with 

 fuscous ; in fern ile the extremity of veins and a waved terniiiiil 

 line fuscous ; the underside with the costal area irrorated with 

 brown. 



//(ih. Natal, Estcourt {Hutchinson), 1 c? , Durban (Leigh), 1 $; 

 Cape Colony, Queeiistown. Exy., c? 42, 2 "^S millina. 



1354. Polia cuprescens, n. sp. (Plate LXXXII. fig. 32.) 



(S . Head and thorax cupreous red mixed with black ; tegulaj 

 with medial black line ; tarsi bauded with black ; abdoiuen greyish 

 mixed with fuscous, the basal crest and anal tuft rufous. Fore 

 wing cupreous red-brown mixed with fuscous, the medial area 

 mostly suffused with fuscous ; subbasal line black from costa to 

 a short black streak in base of submedian fold ; antemedial line 

 obli([ue, waved ; claviform defined by black and with black streak 

 from it to postmedial line ; orbicular and reniforra cupreous defined 

 by black and with slight fuscous centres, the formi-r round ; an 

 indistinct waved medial line ; ]ioslmedial line minutely waved, 

 bent outwards below costa, slightly angled inwards in discal fold, 

 incurved below \ein 4; subterminal line cupreous red, defined on 

 inner side by a series of small dentnte fuscous marks, angled 

 outwards at vein 7 and excurved at middle : a terminal series of 

 small black lunules; cilia fuscous intersected with cupreous red. 

 Hind wing wliite, the veins towards termen fuscous ; a fuscous 

 terminal line ; the cilia tinged with ochrcous; underside with the 

 costal and terminal areas tin<:ed with oihreous and irrorated with 

 fuscous, a discoidal spot and pnstmedial line on costal half. 



Bah. Ma^honala.xd, Salisbury {Marshall), 2 J type. Ex^^. 

 34 millim. 



1355. Polia mesomelana. (Plate LXXXIII. fig. 1.) 

 Agrotis mesomelana, Hmpsu. Ann. S. Afr. Mus. ii. p. 263 (l'JU2). 



Head and thorax reddish, almost entirely suffused with black ; 

 tegulse with medial black line ; tarsi with pale rings ; abdomen 

 ochreous tinged with fuscous. Pore wing \m\e thickly striated 

 with rufuus, the costa, medial area except towards inner margin, 

 and terminal area suflused with black ; subbasal line double, 

 waved, from costa to submedian fold ; antemedial line indistinct, 

 double, waved ; claviform moderate, defined by black ; orbicular 

 and reniform large, fuscous defined by black, the former round, 

 open above ; postmedial line dentate and produced to short streaks 

 on the veins, bent outwards below costa, incurved at discal fold and 

 below vein 4, some pale points on costa beyond it; subterminal line 

 only defined by the area beyond it being dark, angled outwards at 

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

 lunules. Hind wing semihyaline white, the inner area tinged with 

 ochreous : in female nearly the whole wing tinged with fuscous ; 



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