188 KOCTUIDJS. 



1395. Polia rugcsa. (Plate LXXXIII. fig. 27.) 



Mamestra rugosa, Morr. Proc. Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist, xviii, p. 119 (1875) ; 

 Smith, O.-it. Nuct. N. Am. p. 123. 



$ . Head and thorax whitish with a few black-brown hairs and 

 scales ; abdomen clothed with dark l)rown and whitish scales. Fore 

 wing whitish, slightly suffused and irrorated with dark brown ; 

 tlie area below base of cell irrorated with some large black scales ; 

 subbasal and antcmedial lines obsolete ; claviform moderate, 

 incompletely defined by black ; orbicular and reniform white with 

 brownish centres, defined by the cell before and between them being 

 black, the former oblique oblong, open above aiid below, the latter 

 oblong, its lower extremity angled inwards on median neiTure and 

 confluent with former ; postmedial line indistinct, pale, minutely 

 waved, bent outwards below costa and oblique below vein 4, the 

 area before it below the cell suffused with black ; subterminal line 

 ])ale, angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at middle, defined on. 

 inner side by dentate black spots except towards costa, the area 

 beyond it suffused with dark brown : a terminal series of small 

 black lunules. Hind wing pale suffused with red-browu, the 

 terminal area tinged with fuscous ; the underside paler, a dark 

 discoidal lunule and diffused subterminal band. 



Hah. U.S.A., Maine, 1 $ . Exp. 32 millim. 



1396. Polia marinitincta. (Plate LXXXIII. fig. 28.) 



Mamesb-a marinitinda, Harv. Bull. Buff. Soc. Nut. Sei. ii. p. 273 (1875); 

 Smith, Cat. Noe;. N. Am. p. 126. 



Head and thorax white mixed with some blackish scales, the 

 latter tinged with blue-green ; palpi and frons black at sides ; 

 tegula3 with medial black line, patagia edged with black ; tarsi 

 banded with black ; abdomen fuscous. Fore wing whitish or pale 

 brownish grey more or less tinged with green and the medial area 

 with black ; a sinuous black streak below base of cell ; subbasal 

 line black defined by whitish on outer side, angled outwards on 

 median nervure, from costa to vein 1 ; antemedial line double filled 

 in with whitish, the outer line strong, oblique from costa to sub- 

 median fold, angled slightly outwards below costa and strongly on 

 vein 1 ; claviform small, defined by black ; orbicular and reniform 

 small, whitish defined by black, the former rather oblique elliptical; 

 an indistict waved medial line obli(iue from costa to below cell ; 

 postmedial line dentate, bent outwards below costa, excurved to 

 vein 4, then incurved, a blackish streak beyond it on vein 2 and 

 some white points on costa ; subterminal line represented by a 

 series of more or less developed dentate black and white marks, 

 defined on inner side by an oblique black shade from costa, angled 

 outwards at vein 7 and slightly excurved at middle ; a terminal 

 series of small black lunules ; cilia cheqtiered black and white. 

 Hind wing fuscous black ; cilia white with a dark line through 



