POLIA. 173 



1371. Polia snbjecta. (Plate LXXXIII. fig. 12.) 



Hadena subject a, Wlk. xi.- 588 (1857). 



Mamcstra viriditiiicta, Scha-is, J. N.Y. Ent. Soc. xi. p. 230 (1903). 



S . Head and thorax -whitish mixed with ochreous, olive-green, 

 and black ; pectus and legs whitish irrorated with brown, the tarsi 

 banded with black. Fore wing ochreous whitish suifused in parts 

 with olive-green and with pale pinkish beyond the cell ; the medial 

 area rather darker ; a waved subbasal line from costa to submedian 

 fold ; a black streak above inner margin before the antemedial line, 

 which is oblique from costa to below the cell, where it is angled 

 outwards, angled inwards on vein 1 and strongly outwards above 

 inner margin ; orbicular and reniform with rufous centres and 

 ochreous annuli incompletely defined by black, the former round, 

 open above ; an ill-defined irregular black medial shade ; post- 

 medial line indistinct, bent outwards below costa, oblique to vein 5, 

 where it is acutely angled, then oblique and with short black streaks 

 beyond it on the veins, some black points beyond it on costa ; sub- 

 terminal line only defined by the area beyond it being more suffused 

 with olive except at apex and with black streaks on the veins and a 

 short black streak before it above vein 4, somewhat angled outwards 

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

 cilia chequered fuscous and green. Hind wing ochreous white, the 

 veins of terminal half and termen tinged with fuscous ; the under- 

 side with the costal area and termen irrorated with brown, a 

 discoidal point and slight postmedial series. 



Hah. Cuba (Schaus), type t viriditincta S in Coll. Schaus ; 

 Colombia, Popayan, 2 c? ; Brazil, Castro Paraiia, 1 c? . ^.tp. 34 

 millim. Type t c? in Mus. Oxon. 



1372. Polia confusa. (Plate LXXXIII. fig. 13.) 



Hecatera confusa. Leech, Trans. Ent. Soc. 1900, p. 96. 



5 . Head and thorax white mixed with black ; palpi black, 

 whitish at tips ; tarsi black ringed with white ; abdomen fuscous. 

 Fore wing white irrorated with black and in parts suffused with 

 fuscous; a black streak below base of cell; subbasal line nearly 

 straio-ht, from costa to submedian fold ; antemedial line oblique, 

 waved, the costal area before it and the area beyond it clouded 

 with fuscous ; claviforra represented by a black spot at its extremity, 

 with a small triangular white spot beyond it ; orbicular and reni- 

 form white defined by black, open above, the former small, rounded; 

 a waved medial line ; postmedial line dentate and produced to a 

 series of black and white points on the veins, slightly bent out- 

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

 points beyond it on costa ; subterminal line only defined by a 

 dentate black line before it and some fuscous suffusion beyond it, 

 angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at middle ; a waved 

 terminal black line expanding into spots in the interspaces ; cilia 

 chequered white and black. Hind wing fuscous brown, with a 



