176 KOCTUIDJE. 



137G. Polia renigera. (Rate LXXXllI. tig. 15.) 



Celana renigera, Stepli.'Ill. Brit. Ent., Haust. iii. p. H\. pi. xxv. f. 2 (1829) ; 

 Eiley, 1st Eep. Ins. Mo. p. 86, f. 31 ; Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 124. 

 CelcBna hcrhbnacula, Guen. Noct. i. p. 223 (1S52). 

 CelcBiia infccia, Wlk. x. 2(33 (1856). 



Head and thorax purplo-brown mixed with grey ; tarsi with 

 white rings ; abdomen fuscous brown mixed with grey. Fore 

 wing purple ; a black subbasal line from costa to submedian fold, 

 angled outward at median nervure, with an oblique striga beyond 

 it in submedian interspace and a golden-green patch extending to 

 antemcdial line ; a black patch above inner margin before middle; 

 antemedial line oblique, waved, defined by some pale scales on inner 

 side ; claviform moderate, filled in wil h black ; orbicular small, 

 defined by black, incompletely above and below ; reniform narrow, 

 oblong, with green centre partly defined by black and white annulus 

 defined by black, the end of cell and area beyond and below it 

 suffused with black ; an indistinct medial line angled outwards 

 below cell ; postmedial line black, defincl on outer side by pale and 

 green scales, minutely waved, bent outwards below costa, angled 

 outwards at vein 5, then incurved, a green patch beyond it in 

 submedian interspace and some pale points on costa ; subtermiual 

 line formed of slight black marks with green and pale scales on 

 them, angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at middle, the area 

 beyond it blackish ; a series of pale points at base of cilia. Hind 

 wing white, the costal and terminal areas down to vein 2 tinged 

 with fuscous ; the underside with the costal and terminal areas to 

 vein 2 irrorated with brown, a slight discoidal point. 



Eab. Canada. {Norman), 2 ^ , llenfrew Co., 8 c? ; U.S.A., 

 E. States, Massachusetts, Beverley, 6 c? , Xew York, Trenton Falls 

 (Doubleday), 3^,1$ type herbimacula and infecta, Evan's Centre 

 (Grote), 2 tS , Georgia, Mississippi, Nebraska, Missouri, 1 5, 

 Colorado, Durango (Oshtr), 2 ^,1 $ . Eaji. 2G-32 milHm. 



Larva. Head small, shagreened, nearly black, the paler ground 

 showing only in small spots. Body robust, pale sordid brown ; dorsal 

 space luteous including a faint brown segmentary lozenge-shaped 

 marking, obscurely cut by dorsal and addorsal lines. A narrow 

 pale obscure subdorsal and lateral line, the lower half of lateral 

 space black-shaded. Substigmatal line broad, pale. Tubercles rather 

 large, brownish black. Cervical shield black-shaded, cut by three 

 pale lines. Leg-plates blackish. — H. G. D. 



1377. Polia stricta. (Plate LXXXIII. fig. 18.) 



Hadena stricta, Wlk. xxxiii. 728 (1865); Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. 



p. 125. 

 Ma/meatra cinnaharina, Grote, Proc. Bost. Soc. Kat. Hist. sri. p. 241 



(1874); Grote, Can. Ent. vii. p. 25 (1875). 

 Mamestra ferrea, Grote, Can. Ent. xiii. p. L'JO (1881). 

 Mamestra circumcinrta, Smith, Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus. xiv. p. 253 (1891); 



id. Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 125. 



