POLIA. 181 



1383. Polia poliastis. (Plate LXXXIII. fig. 20.) 

 Mamestra poliasUs, Hmpsn. Ann. S. Afr. Mu8. ii. p. 268 (1902). 



Head and thorax white with a slight greenish tinge and with a 

 few black scales ; palpi black, pale at tips ; tegulae sometimes with 

 black line near tips ; tarsi black ringed with white ; abdomen 

 whitish, dorsally tinged with fuscous and with pale segmental lines. 

 Fore wing white tinged with olive-green and more or less thickly 

 striated with black ; subbasal line black, waved from costa to sub- 

 median fold ; antemedial line black, obliquely waved ; medial area 

 often tinged with black towards inner margin ; claviform and 

 orbicular absent ; reniforra represented by a black lunule ; post- 

 medial line more or less interrupted, dentate and produced to short 

 streaks on the veins, slightly bent outwards below costa and strongly 

 incurved below vein 4 ; subterminal line sometimes represented by 

 ill-defined black marks at veins 5 and 2 ; a terminal series of black 

 spots ; cilia chequered black and white. Hind wing white, the 

 terminal area tinged with fuscous from apex to vein 2, in female 

 wholly tinged with fuscous, the veins and terminal area suff'used 

 with fuscous ; the underside usually with slight discoidal lunule 

 and curved postmedial line. 



Hah. Be. E. Africa, Machakos (CrawsJiay), 1 S type, Eb Urru 

 (Betton), 2 $ , iS'airobi (Betton), 1 $ , Kui (Betion), 1 $ . £"0,^. 28- 

 3() millim. 



Subsp. Head, thorax, and fore wing tinged with pale brown 

 instead of green. 



Hab. Mashonaland, Salisbury (Marshall), 1 $ ; Cape Colony, 

 Transkei (3Iiss F. Barrett), 1 $ . 



1384. Polia laudabilis. (Plate LXXXIII. fig. 21.) 



Hecatera laudabilis, G-uen. Noct. ii. p. 30, pi. 8. f. 4 (1852) ; Druce, Biol. 



Centr.-Am., Het. i. p. 291 ; Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 126. 

 Hnpidia ind.icans, Wlk. x. 359 (1856). 



Hecatera strigicollis, Wllgrn. Wien. ent. Mon. iv. p. 170 (1860). 

 Mamestra iUaudabilis, Grote, Can. Ent. vii. p. 27 (1875). 



Head and thorax white mixed with pale green : palpi and frons 



blackish at sides ; tegulne with slight medial blackish line ; patagia 



blackish on outer side ; tarsi with black bands ; abdomen fuscous, 



whitish at base, the underside white irrorated with black. Fore 



wing pale green ; a double, waved, black subbasal line filled in with 



white and interrupted in cell, its lower extremity connected with 



base by a black streak ; antemedial line black defined by white on 



inner side, oblique, waved ; medial area tinged with black from 



subcostal nervure to submedian fold ; the claviform green defined 



by black ; the orbicular and reniform with green centres and white 



annuli defined by black, the former small, round, open above; 



an indistinct waved medial line oblique from costa to below cell ; 



a bright red spot between the stigmata and some red beyond 



claviform ; postmedial line black defined by white on outer side, 



