17" vocvvinji. 



Iloh. Bkitain, Leech Coll.; Fkanck, Sand Coll.; Gekmany, 

 Zeller and Frey Colls.; Swny.KKLANn, Frey Coll.; Sicily, Zeller 

 Coll. ; Grei<;ce, Leech Coll. ; CiiETE ; S. Sweden ; Asia. Minor, 

 rontus, Briissa, Zeller Coll. ; Syria, Leech Coll. ; Persia ; W. 

 Turkestan, Turcomania, Saisan, Issyk-kul, Ferghana, Sarawschan ; 

 China, 1 cJ , Leech Coll. ; Kashmir, Goorais Valley {Leech) 1 S , 

 (Pilcher) 1 $ . Exj). 32-36 millim. 



Larva. Meyr. Brit. Lep. p. 82 ; Barrett, Lep. Brit. iv. p. 218, pi. 161. i. 1. 



Pale dull green or yellowish irrorated with brown ; dorsal line 

 pale with dark edges ; lateral line daik, indi.stinct ; spiracles black ; 

 head ochreous brown or dull greenish. Food-plants : flowers of 

 SoncJius and Luctiica. 7-8. 



1367. Polia maderae. (Plate LXXXIII. fig. 9.) 



Mamestra maderce. Baker, Truas. Eiit. Soc. 1891, p. 205, pi. 12. f. 3; 

 Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. IGO. 



S • Head and thorax grey-white mixed with dark brown and 

 black; palpi blackish with some white ; antennae and tarsi black 

 ringed with white ; abdomen grey mixed with dark brown. Fore 

 wing grey thickly irrorated with fuscous ; the medial area suffused 

 with brown except towards costa and inner margin ; subbasal line 

 double, black filled in with white, waved and angled inwards below 

 cell and on vein 1 ; claviform large, whitish defined by black except 

 above ; orbicular and reniform whitish defined by black, the former 

 round, the latter somewhat angled inwards on median nervure ; a 

 waved medial line oblique below the cell ; postmedial line defined 

 by white on outer side, dentate, bent outwards below costa and 

 incurved below vein 4, some white points on costa beyond it ; 

 subterminal line whitish defined by small dentate black marks 

 on inner side, angled outwards at vein 7 and dentate at veins -1, 3 ; 

 a terminal series of black points ; cilia fuscous intersected with 

 grey. Hind wing whitish tinged with brown, the veins and 

 terminal area fuscous ; slight greyish marks on termen towards 

 tornus ; cilia grey with a brown line through them ; the underside 

 white, the costal and terminal areas irrorated with brown, a slight 

 discoidal luiiule and waved postmedial line. 



Hah. Madeira {WoUasto7i), 1 J type. Krj^. 36 millim. 



1368. Polia serena. 



Nocttta serena, ScbifF. Wien. Verz. p. 84 (1776) ; Esp. Sehmett. iv. pi. 166, 

 f. 4 ; Hiibn. Eur. Sehmett , Noct. f. 54; Dup. Lep. Fr. vi. pi. 98. f. 3; 

 Staph. HI. Brit. Ent., Haust. iii. p. 33; Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 160. 



Kociua placida , Esp. Sehmett. pi. 166. ff. 5, 6 (1789). 



Noctua hieracii, Scriba, Beitr. Ins. p. 195, pi. 13. ff. 1, 2 (1793). 



Mamestra monticola, Dup. Lep. Fr. vi. p. 315, pi. 92. f. 4 (1826). 



Polia Corsica, Eambr. Ann. See. Ent. Fr. 1832, p. 279, pi. 9. f. 3. 



Polia leuconota, Ev. Bull. Mo.sc. Soc. 1837, p. 39. 



Mamestra hicolornfa. Led. Noct. p. 32 (18.^7). 



Hecatera intermedin , Wlk. xv. 1716 (1858V 



Mamestra ohsrura. Staiid. Cat. cd. 1, p. 40 (1861). 



