roLiA, 177 



Head and thorax ferruginous red mixed with grey; tarsi fuscous 

 with pale rings ; abdomen pale rufous, with the dorsal crests rather 

 darker. Fore wing bright rufous ; a waved subbasal line from 

 costa to submedian fold defined by pale colour on outer side : ante- 

 medial line oblique, waved, defined by pale colour on inner side ; 

 claviform moderate defined by blackish, sometimes at extremity 

 only ; orbicular and reniform small, defined by blackish, the former 

 oblique elliptical, with pale annulus, the latter narrow with pure 

 white annulus, its lower extremity slightly angled inwards on 

 median nervure ; an indistinct waved medial line oblique from costa 

 to below cell; postmedial line bent outwards below costa, angled 

 outwards at vein 5, then incurved, some pale points on costa beyond 

 it ; subtermiual line indistinct, pale, defined by the area beyond it 

 being dark brown, angled outwards at vein 7, excurved at middle 

 and to tornus ; a terminal series of dark points. Hind wing 

 yellowish suffused with fuscous brown ; cilia yellowish white with 

 a brown line through them : the underside pale reddish irrorated 

 with brown, a slight discoidal lunule and sinuous postmedial line. 



Ab. 1. cinnabarina. Dark brown instead of rufous ; fore wing 

 with a purplish tinge, the postmedial area pale rufous except 

 towards costa. 



Hah. Can ADA, Br. Columbia, Sicamons Junction, 1 J , Coldstream 

 Ranch, 1 c^ (Aliss Bicardo), Vancouver I., 1 c? , 2 $ , type ferrea, 

 (Hawkins) 1 J type, (J. J. WaUer) 2 c? ; U.S.A.., Washington, 

 1 d , 2 2 J Oregon, California, 3 (S type cinnabarina. Exp. 30 

 millim. 



*1378. Polia ferrealis. 



Mamestra ferrealis, Grote, Can. Eut. xv. p. 29 (1883) ; Smith, Cat. Noct. 

 N. Am. p. 128. 



Bright brown, thorax rather pale, the tegulae and patagia with 

 black lines. Fore wing with the antemedial and postmedial costal 

 areas and inner medial area darker ; the subbasal line white ; 

 antemedial line oblique, waved ; claviform small ; orbicular small, 

 round, with dark dot in centre and defined by black ; reniform 

 slightly constricted at middle, with two dark spots in centre and 

 whitish annulus defined by black ; a blackish medial shade ; post- 

 medial line double, black filled in with white, bent outwards below 

 costa and incurved below vein 5 ; postmedial area suffused with, 

 whitish except at costa ; subterminal line whitish, defined on inner 

 side by a brown shade and on outer by the terminal area being 

 fuscous except at apex, slightly angled outwards at vein 7 and 

 excurved at middle. Hind wing fuscous ; the underside with post- 

 medial line. 



Hab. U.S.A., Montana. Exp. ? about 32 millim. This species 

 is unknown to me. 



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