108 KocTuiPj;. 



13G4. Polia stenotis, n. sp. (Plate LXXXTIT. fig. 8.) 



c?. Head .and thorsix white mixed with black-hrowii ; palpi 

 blackish at sides ; irons with l)hick bar ; tarsi banded with black ; 

 abdomen white tinged with ochreous and irrorated with fuscous. 

 Fore wing narrow, white irrorated with black-brown, the medial 

 area suflused with black-brown ; the subbasal line represented by 

 double black stria) from costa and median nervure joined b)' a 

 short black streak in submedian fold ; antemedial line double, 

 oblique, waved, angled inwards on vein 1 ; claviform short and 

 broad, defined by black; orbicular and reniform moderate, white 

 slightly irrorated with brown and defined by black, the former 

 round; postmedial line double, the outer line indistinct, somewhat 

 dentate, bent outwards below costa, sbghtly incurved at discal fold, 

 below vein 4 incurved to below end of cell, some white points 

 beyond it on costa; subterminal line defined by a very obscure 

 series of small dentate dark marks on inner side and by tbe area 

 beyond it being sufi'used with fuscous, angled outwards at vein 7 

 and excurved to near termen at middle ; cilia chequered brown and 

 white. Hind wing white, the termen more or less strongly tinged 

 with fuscous. 



Hub. U.S.A., California (Walsinyham), 5 d type. Ea^). 3-4 

 millim. 



1365. Polia cappa. 



Noctua cappa, Hiibn. Eur. Schmett., Noct. f. 447 (1827) ; Diip. Lep. Fr. vi. 

 pi. 99. f. 5 ; Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 160. 



Head and thorax white with a few dark scales ; antennae and 

 tarsi fuscous ringed with white ; abdomen white, dorsally tinged 

 with fuscous except at base and extremity. Fore wing white, 

 the medial area tinged with fuscous except towards inner margin ; 

 the base slightly tinged with fuscous ; subbasal line black, w aved, 

 from costa to submedian fold, where there is a small lunule beyond 

 it ; a curved mark above inner margin near base ; antemedial line 

 double, waved, the inner line indistinct ; claviform defined by 

 black, incomplete above ; orbicular and reniform white defined 

 by black, incompletely above, the former round, the latter rather 

 irregular and with slight brownish centre ; a dentate black medial 

 line ; postmedial line double, the inner black, dentate, bent outwards 

 below costa, excurved to vein 4, then oblique, the costa beyond it 

 black with white points ; subterminal line slightly defined on each side 

 by fuscous, some small dentate black marks on inner side below costa 

 and at middle, slightly angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at 

 middle ; a terminal series of small black luuules ; cilia chequered 

 fuscous and white. Hind wing white ; the veins tinged with 

 fuscous ; traces of a postmedial line, a diffused subterminal band, 

 and a waved line from apex to vein 2; the underside Avith the 

 costal and terminal areas irrorated with fuscous. 



Hah. Fkance, Zcller, Frey, and Sand Colls. ; HuxGAur, Leech 



