17i Xut'TriDJE. 



whitish subtenninal striga above tornus ; cilia fuscous at base, 

 white at rips ; the underside whitish irrorated thickly with brown, 

 a discoidal spot, sinuous postmedial line, and some terminal lunules. 

 Hah. W. China, Ta-chien-lu (Pratt), 1 $ type. Exjj. 34 

 raillim. 



1373. Polia psittacus. 



Mamestra psittacus, Herr.-Sehiiff. Aussereur. Schmett. p. 80, f. 2H> 



(1850) ; Druce, Biol. Centr.-Am., Het. i. p. 293. 

 Valleria jocom, Scliaus, Trans. Am. Ent. See. x.xi. p. 230 (1894) ; Druce, 



Biol. Centr.-Am., Het. ii. p. 487. 



Head and thorax bright moss-green with a few brown scales ; 

 palpi blackish at side ; pectus and legs ochreous, the latter banded 

 with black : abdomen dark brown, the anal tuft and ventral surface 

 ochreous white. Fore wing bright goldrn green ; some of the veins 

 with purplish streaks ; the subbasal line represented by double 

 black strioe from costa, and a green striga below cell on a black- 

 brown patch which emits a spur above inner margin ; the ante- 

 medial line represented by double black striae from costa, then 

 single, oblique, irregularly waved, and angled inwards on vein 1 ; 

 the medial area suffused with black from subcostal nervure to vein 

 1 ; the orbicular and reniform green, the former small, round, with 

 blackish centre, the latter with its centre slightly defined by 

 blackish ; po.stmedial line dentate, bent outwards below costa, 

 excurved to vein 4, then incurved and strongly angled outwards 

 on vein 1, the costa beyond it black with pale points ; the sub- 

 terminal line consisting of a series of black lunules which are 

 small except those below costa and in discal and subraedian folds, 

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

 terminal series of black lunules, the cilia intersected with black. 

 Hind wing dark reddish brown ; the cilia ochreous, with a fuscous 

 line through them ; the underside ochreous, the costal area irrorated 

 with fuscous, a small discoidal lunule and dentate postmedial line 

 with the area beyond it irrorated with fuscous. 



Hah. Mexico, Jalapa (Trujillo, Hoer/e), 1 £5^,2 5; Guatemala, 

 S. Geronimo {Champion), 1 S; Costa Rica, Irazu (Rogers), 1 c?, 

 Godman-Salvin Coll. ; Venezuela. Exp. 30-34 millim. Type t 

 jocosa in Coll. Schaus. 



1374. Polia pictula. 



Dianfhvcia pictula, White, Taylor's New Zealanrl, pi. i. f. 3 (185.')) ; 



Hudson, New Zealand .Moths "and Butterflies, p. 19 pi. 4. f. 37. 

 Namestra rhodopleura, IMeyr. Trans. N. Z. Inst., xis. p. 19 (1886). 



S • Head and thorax black, the scales tipped with grey ; vertex 

 of head, basal joint of antennae, lines near extremity of tegul*, and 

 upper edge of patagia and the dorsal ridge of thorax golden yellow; 

 pectus with some pink hair ; tibiae banded with yellow ; tarsi with 

 pale rings; abdomen black, the hairs tipped with grey, the dorsal 

 crests yellow, broad subdorsal pink stripes except on terminal 

 .segment. Fore wing black suffused with leaden grey or rarely with 



