POLIA, 191 



Hah. Br. E. Africa, Nairobi (Betton), 2 5 , Kikuyu {Crawsliay, 

 Betton), 3^,3$, jS'eugia {C'rawshay), 1 $ , Ndimu {Betton), 3 j , 

 'Koxendi-dt {Bettorii 1 d* , Nairowa (Z><'«o«), 1 $, Kilima-njaro (if on- 

 nington), 1 $ ; Delagoa Bat {Junod), 1 d" , 1 $ ; Transvaal, Piet 

 Eetief (Crawshay), 3 cJ; Natal, Estcourt (Hutchinson), 6 (^ , 1 $ , 

 Howick, 1 2, Durban (Leigh), '3 2; Basutoland, Maseru (Craiv- 

 shay), 3 c? ; Cape Colony, Kenilworth, 1 J (^J". Smith), 6 $ , type 

 and types prcetermissa and depulsa, Knysna (Trimen), 1 <5 , 2 $, 

 type contracta, Aunshaw (Miss F. Barrett), 1 c? , Cape Town 

 (Trimen, Lightfoot), 1 J, 1 $, type j^cito. Exp. 26-36 millim. 

 Types t incidta and servilis in Mus. Oxon. 



*1401. Polia goniopliora. (Plate LXXXIII. fig. 32.) 

 Mamestra goniophom, Schaus, J. N.Y. Ent. Soc. xi. p. 231 (1903). 



S . Head and thorax olive-green, some of the scales tipped with 

 white ; palpi blackish at sides ; legs mixed with black and white ; 

 abdomen whitish, pale brown, and black. Fore wing olive-green, 

 the disk suffused with brown ; a white subbasal line from costa to 

 submediau fold, dentate outwards in cell ; autemedial line repre- 

 sented by white spots on costa and inner margin, then by an obscure 

 dark line with an oblique striga below costa and point on median 

 nervure ; orbicular a small round white spot, reniform an oblique 

 white bar, angled inwards in lower end of cell; postmedial line 

 obscure, dark, dentate, with white spots at costa and inner margin, 

 some white points on the portion bent outwards below costa and 

 white points at extremity of teeth on veins 4, 3, 2 ; subterminal 

 line indistinct, dark, irregular, with white spots on it towards apex, 

 a white spot at inner margin and three white spots beyond it on 

 middle of termen. Hind wing fuscous brown, with some obscure 

 white spots on termen ; the cilia ochreous ; underside whitish 

 irrorated with large black scales, a black discoidal lunule on a 

 rather indistinct medial line, a sinuous postmedial line. 



Hab. Brazil, Castro Parana, type t d in Coll. Schaus. Bxp, 

 28 millim. 



*1402. Polia rudis. (Plate LXXXIV. fig. 1.) 



Pastona rttdis, Wlk. xv. 1754 (1858). 

 Maguza alhoguttalis, Wlk. xxxiv. 1224: (1865). 





J . Head and thorax olive-brown, the hairs pale at base, the 

 scales tipped with white ; tarsi ringed with white ; abdomen dark 

 brown, the ventral surface whitish. Fore wing dark brown irrorated 

 with black and slightly with white ; a white spot at base ; a waved 

 white subbasal line from costa to submedian fold ; an interrupted 

 waved white autemedial line : orbicular and reniform white, the former 

 small, round, the latter elliptical ; postmedial line represented by a 

 series of white points, bent outwards below costa and oblique below 

 vein 4, with larger spots displaced inwards at discal and submedian 

 folds, some white points beyond it on costa; subterminal line 



