POLIX. 175 



pale brown, and irrorated with golden yellow ; subbasal line black 

 defined by yellow on outer side, waved, from costa to submedian 

 fold, some patches of blaet and yellow scales between it and the 

 oblique waved antemedial line, which is defined by yellow on inner 

 side j flaviform defined by black ; orbicular and reniform large, 

 with yellow annuli defined by black ; the former irregularly 

 rounded, the latter irregular and sometimes with a white patch on 

 outer side ; traces of a waved medial line ; postraedial line formed 

 by a series of black and yellow lunules, bent outwards below costa 

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

 subterminal line formed by a series of yellow lunules on black 

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

 a terminal series of black and yellow lunules ; cilia intersected 

 with yellow. Hind wing fuscous brown, the cilia of inner margin 

 yellow, some grey near tornus and on apical half of cilia. Under- 

 side of fore wing with the base of costa pink ; hind wing pink, 

 with some brown on termen, becoming a large patch on apical area, 

 a discoidal spot and postmedial line on costal area. 



5 . Hind wing with the upperside pink from inner margin to 

 discal fold and vein 6 except on terminal area. 



JJab. New Zealand, Auckland (Bolton, Enys, J. J. Walker), 3 S , 

 1 2 type, Lake Coleridge, Napier, Wellington. Exj). 40 millira. 



1375. Polia spiculosa. (Plate LXXXIII. fig. 14.) 



Mamestra spiculusa, Grote, Can. Ent. xv. p. 28 (1883); Smith, Cat. Noct. 

 N. Am. p. 125. 



Head and thorax dark brown, the scales tipped with grey ; tar.si 

 ringed with w^hite ; abdomen fuscous brown irrorated with grey, 

 the ventral surface tinged with purple. Fore wing brownish, 

 suffused with purple and slightly irrorated with grey, some 

 ochreous in submedian fold ; subbasal line double filled in with 

 whitish, waved, from costa to submediaij fold ; antemedial line 

 double, fiUed in with, whitish, angled outwards below costa and 

 excurved from cell to inner margin ; claviform rather large, 

 blackish ; orbicular and reniform small, with whitish annuli slightly 

 defined by blackish ; the former oblique, pointed above, the latter 

 very narrow, slightly angled inwards on median nervure and placed 

 on a blackish patch which extends to postmedial line, which is 

 double filled in with grey, slightly bent outwards below costa, 

 angled outwards at vein 5, then incurved, the area beyond it paler 

 and redder, with some whitish points on costa ; subterminal line pale, 

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

 iu submedian fold, the area beyond it darker; a pale line at base 

 of cilia. Hind wing white, the veins and costal area slightly tinged 

 with brown ; the underside with the costal area suffused with 

 purplish and irrorated with brown, a black discoidal lunule and 

 indistinct curved postmedial line. 



Huh. U.S.A., Nevada, 1 ?, Arizona (Kunze), 1 J , 2 $. fCtp. 

 30 millim. 



