POLIA. 195 



Hah. Britain, Leech Coll. ; France, Sand Coll. ; Germany, Zeller, 

 Frey, and Leech Colls. ; Russia, Livonia, Zeller Coll. ; Armenia ; Asia 

 Minor, Pontus ; Kurdistan ; W. Turkestan, Issyk-kul ; Amur- 

 land, Ussuri ; Japan, Hakodate {Andrews), 7 cJ, 1 $, Yokohama 

 {Manley, Jonas), 1 (S , 1 $ , Tokio {Maries), 1 S , Oiwake (Pryer), 

 1 cJ , Tsuruga {Leech), 1 $ ; China, Chusan {J. J. Walker), 1 c? , 

 Chia-kou-ho {Pratt), 1 ^ , Psu-tu-fang, 1 (J type. Exj). 32- 

 36 millim. 



Larva. Meyr. Brit. Lep. p. 79; Barrett, Lep. Brit. iv. p. 238, pi. 163. f. 1. 



Greenish grey tinged with orange and with numerous white dots : 

 dorsal line brown ; a subdorsal series of oblique brown marks ; 

 head with dark markings. Food-plants : leaves and seed-capsules 

 of Silene and Lychnis. 7-8. 



1407. Polia bicruris. 



Phal(sna bicruris, Hiifn. Berl. Mag. iii. 3, p. 302 (1766). 



Noctua capsincola, Schiff. Wien. Verz. p. 84 (1776); Esp. Schraett. iv. 



pi. 173. f. 5 ; Hiibn. Eur. Schmett., Noct. f. 57 ; Dup. Lep. Fr. vi. 



p. 334, pi. 93. f. 6; Steph. 111. Brit. Ent., Haust. ii. p. 188 ; Staud. Cat. 



Lep. pal. p. 163. 

 Noctua imprcssa, Esp. Schmett. iy. pi. 152. f. 3 (1788). 



Head and thorax reddish brown mixed with grey and some 

 blackish scales ; tegulae with dark medial line ; tarsi ringed with 

 white ; abdomen pale grey-brown. Fore wing reddish brown 

 irrorated with black and some white scales ; subbasal line double, 

 waved, from costa to submedian fold ; some dark scales above inner 

 margin near base ; antemedial line double, waved, angled outwards 

 above inner margin ; claviform large, suffused with black and 

 defined by black ; orbicular and reniform with brown centres and 

 white annuli defined by black, the former rather irregularly oblique 

 elliptical ; an indistinct waved medial line ; postmcdial line double, 

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

 strongly incurved, some white points beyond it on costa ; sub- 

 terminal line white, with some diffused fuscous, somewhat dentate 

 marks on its inner side, strongest in submedian fold, angled 

 outwards at vein 7 and dentate at veins 4, 3 : a terminal series of 

 small black lunules defined by whitish ; cilia intersected with 

 white. Hind wing whitish suffused with brown, deepest on 

 terminal area ; cilia whitish, with a brown line through them ; 

 the underside whitish irrorated with brown, a discoidal spot and 

 curved postmedial and subterminal lines. 



Hah, Britain, Leech Coll. ; France ; Germany, Zeller and Leech 

 Colls. ; Austria ; Switzerland, Frey Coll. ; Spain ; Italy ; Scan- 

 dinavia ; PtUssiA, Livonia, Zeller Coll., Crimea ; Armenia ; W. 

 Turkestan, Issyk-kul ; W. Siberia, Altai. Exp. 30-40 millim. 



Larva. Meyr. Brit. Lep. p. 79 ; Barrett, Lep. Brit. iv. p. 242, pi. 163. f. 2. 



Light brownish ochreous irrorated with brown ; dorsal line pale, 

 indistinct, traversing a series of dark V-shaped marks ; head with 

 dark markings. Food-plants : seed-capsules of Silene and Lychnis, 

 7-9. 



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