roLiA. 185 



j'ellowish tinge, most prominent below cell ; subbasal line double 

 filled in with white or yellowish, ending at vein 1 ; antemedial line 

 double filled in with white ,"tr yellowish, interrupted, waved, some- 

 what oblique; claviform large, defined by blackish ; orbicular and 

 reuiform with fuscous centres and whitish annuli defined by black, 

 the former small, round, the latter moderate and somewhat con- 

 stricted at middle ; postmedial line double filled in with yellowish 

 or reddish, minutely waved and produced to white points on the 

 veins, bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then oblique; 

 subterminal line whitish, defined on each side by fuscous, irregular ; 

 a terminal series of black points ; cilia pale intersected with fuscous. 

 Hind wing white, the veins and fine terminal line fuscous, in female 

 almost wholly tinged with fuscous, darker on terminal area ; the 

 underside with the costal area irrorated with fuscous, the female 

 with postmedial line. 



//a6. U.S.A., Colorado, Estes Park. Exp. 29-33 millim. This 

 species is unknown to me ; figured from a drawing from type iu 

 U.S. Nat. Mus. 



*1390. Polia ciniva. (Plate LXXXIII. fig. 24.) 



Mamestra ciniva, Scbaus, J. N.Y. Ent. Soc. vi. p. 142 (1898) ; Druce, 

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



5 . Head and thorax mixed black, brown, and white ; tegulse 

 with strong black line near tips ; tarsi banded black and white ; 

 abdomen brown irrorated with grey, dorsally white irrorated with 

 brown. Fore wing bluish white, thickly irrorated with black and 

 suffused in parts with grey ; antemedial line double at costa, then 

 single, oblique to submedian fold and angled inwards on vein 1 ; 

 claviform small, defined by black ; orbicular and reniform defined 

 by black, the former small, round ; postmedial line rather indistinct, 

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

 incurved ; subterminal line ill-defined, irregular, with a blackish 

 patch beyond it above tornus with two white points on it ; cilia 

 white with fuscous lines through them. Hind wing semihyaline 

 white, the veins and marginal areas tinged with fuscous ; the 

 underside with the costal and terminal areas irrorated with fuscous. 

 a small discoidal spot. 



Hah. Mexico, Oaxaca, type f 5 in CoU. Schaus. Exp. 24 millim. 



1391. Polia hodeva. 



Hccatera hodeva, Druce, Biol. Centr.-Am., Het. i. p. 291, pi. 27. f. 21 



(1889). 



2 . Head and thorax clothed with pale brown, white, and black 

 scales ; tarsi banded with black ; abdomen pale brown, the ventral 

 surface white irrorated with black. Fore wing white, tinged m 

 parts with pale brown and thickly irrorated with black, the medial 

 area sufiused with black except on inner area ; a black fascia below 



