POLIA. 165 



*13.5S. Polia lebruni. 



Apamea lehnmi, Mab. Bull. Soc. Philom. (7) ix. p. 63 (1885) ; id. N. Arch. 

 Mus. (3) i. p. 150, pi. X. f. 10. 



S . Head and thorax pale reddish brown slightly mixed with 

 fuscous ; tegulte with black medial line ; patagia edged with black 

 above ; thorax with dorsal black streak ; abdomen pale reddish 

 brown. Fore wing pale yellowish brown, irrorated and suffused 

 with fuscous except on inner margin and terminal area ; the sub- 

 basal line double, black tilled in with grey, waved, from costa to 

 submedian fold ; autemedial line black, defined by grey on inner 

 side, obsolete towards costa, obliquely excurved from subcostal 

 nervure to submedian fold, angled inwards on vein 1 and stronglj' 

 outwards above inner margin ; claviform short, rounded, brown 

 defined by black ; orbicular and reniiorm with brownish centres 

 and grey annuli defined by black, the former small, elliptical, the 

 latter connected by black streaks with the postmedial line, which 

 is minutely dentate and defined by greyish on outer side, bent out- 

 wards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then incurved ; the sub- 

 terminal line defined by slight dentate black marks on its inner 

 side and by the pale area beyond it, angled outwards at vein 7 and 

 incnrved below vein 3 ; cilia with two brown lines through them. 

 Hind wing whitish, the terminal area tinged with brown ; a 

 diffused waved black subterraiual band ; the underside irrorated 

 with brown and with brown discoidal point. 



Hah. Patagoijia, Santa Cruz, type f c? in !XIus. Paris. Exp. 

 32 millim. 



*1359. Polia densa. (Plate LXXXIII. fig. 4.) 



Scofogramma densa. Smith, Ins. Life, v. p. 329 (1893) ; Dyar, Cat. Lep. 



N. Am. p. 159. 

 Scofogramma magera. Smith, Joum. N.Y. Ent. Soc. vii. p. 44 (1899). 



2 . Head and thorax brown mixed with grey ; antennae ringed 

 with white ; tarsi fuscous ringed with white ; abdomen grey irro- 

 rated with brown, the ventral surface browner. Fore wing grey, 

 tinged with ochreous and thickly irrorated with dark brown ; slight 

 pale streaks in discal and submedian folds ; subbasal line repre- 

 sented bj' black striae from costa and cell; antemedial line rather 

 ill-defined, oblique, waved, angled inwards on vein 1 ; claviform 

 a small blackish mark ; orbicular and reniform incompletely 

 defined by black, the former round ; an indistinct medial line 

 oblique from costa to median nervure ; postmedial line rather 

 ill-defined, dentate and produced to short streaks on the veins, bent 

 outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then incurved, some pale 

 points beyond it on costa ; subterminal line indistinct, pale, defined 

 by fuscous on inner side, angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved 

 at middle ; a terminal series of black points ; cilia ochreous white 

 and brown, with a brown line through them. Hind wing whitish 

 irrorated with brown, the veins and terminal area suffused with 



