182 NocruiD^. 



dentate, bent outwards below costa, excurvcd to vein 4, then 

 incurved, the costa beyond it with black and white points ; sub- 

 terminal line whitish, defined on inner side by an oblicjue black 

 shade from costa, then by some more or less obsolescent dentate 

 marks, angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at middle ; a 

 terminal scries of small black lunules ; cilia chequered black and 

 white. Hind wing semihyaline white, the costal area and termen 

 tinged with fuscous ; cilia with a fuscous line through them ; the 

 underside with the costal area irrorated with fuscous. 



Ab. ] . Fore wing with the whole medial area suffused with 

 black and without the red marks ; orbicular entire. 



Ab. 2. illaudahilis. The green tinge almost entirely replaced by 

 white. 



Ab. 3. Fore wing with the ground-colour white irrorated and 

 suffused with pale rufous. 



Hah. U.S.A., New Jersey, Alabama, 1 S , Florida, 5 cj , 1 5 type 

 hidicans, Texas, Dallas (Boll), 1 $ , Colorado, Manitou, 2 ^ , 

 (Bruce) \ d > 1 $ > California, 3 c5' , 2 § type illaiidalnlis ; Mexico, 

 Jalapa (Hoeye, Ti'ujillo), 3 J , 3 $ , Cordova (liumeli), 1 J' ; 

 Guatemala (Champion), 1 d", 2 5? Godman-Salviu Coll. Eap. 

 26-38 millim. 



Larva. Head small, shagreened, dark reticulate, the vertical 

 bands broad and black. Body sordid and brown, skin pointed 

 granular; dorsal dark diamond-shaped markings; dorsal and sub- 

 dorsal lines narrow, pale, the latter edged below by triangular 

 black segmentary marks ; an indistinct pale waved stigmatal line ; 

 substigmatal line broad, pale, ill-defined above. Thoracic feet black- 

 ringed. Spiracles black. — H. G. D. 



*1385. Polia marmica. (Plate LXXXIII. fig. 22.) 



Hecatera marmica, Schaus, J. N.Y. Eat. Soc. vi. p. 112 (1898) ; Druce, 

 Biol. Centr.-Am., Het. ii. p. 567. 



5 . Head and thorax white mixed with black, the head and 

 tegulse tinged with ochreous; tarsi ringed black and white; abdo- 

 men dorsally grey-brown, ventrally white irrorated with brown. 

 Fore wing white, almost wholly suffused with fuscous and irrorated 

 with black, leaving a white patch beyond the subbasal line, which is 

 angled at median nervure and recurved to base above vein 1 and 

 "with traces of a similar line beyond it ; antemedial line oblique, 

 waved, angled inwards on vein 1 : claviform with its extremity 

 slightly defined by black ; orbicular and reniform with fuscous 

 centres and greyish annuli defined by black, the former small, 

 oblique ; postmedial line dentate, bent outwards below costa, 

 excurved to vein 4, then incurved, a white patch beyond it from 

 vein 2 to inner margin extending to toinus ; subterminal line 

 represented by some small dark dentate marks at middle defined 

 by white on outer side, connected with an apical white patch 

 leaving the medial part of termen fuscous ; a terminal series of 

 tniall black lunules ; cilia chequered black and white. Hind wing 



