POLIA. 197 



and mixed with fuscous; tarsi banded with black. Fore wing 

 brownish grey, almost entirely suffused with pale olive-browul 

 subbasal _ line black, waved from costa to submedian fold; ante- 

 medial line minutely waved, erect, stronger in submedian fold; 

 claviform represented by a V-shaped black mark at its extremity ; 

 orbicular and reniform moderate, whitish, incompletely defined by 

 black, the former round ; postmedial line dentate, strongly bent 

 outwards below costa and incurved below vein 4, thickened in 

 submedian fold, some pa]e points on costa beyond it ; subterminal 

 line pale, defined on inner side by slight dentate black marks below 

 costa and at middle, angled outwaKls at vein 7, dentate at veins 4, 3 

 and forming a rather obscure ^-mark ; a terminal series of small 

 black lunules ; cilia ochreous grey mixed with fuscous. Hind wing 

 pale with an ochreous tinge and almost uniformly suffused with 

 fuscous ; cilia ochreous, with an obscure fuscous line near base ; 

 underside grey-white slightly irrorated with fuscous, a small 

 discoidal spot and curved postmedial line, the area beyond it 

 suffused with fuscous. 



Hah. W. TuEKESTAN, Askabad, type f in Coll. Piingeler. Exp. 

 32 millim. 



1410. Polia magnolii. 



Bianthcecia maijiwlii, Boisd. Ind. Meth. p. 125 (1829); Diip. Lep. Fi-., 

 Suppl. iii. p. 241, pi. 22. f. 4; Hen-.-Scbafl'. Eur. Schmett., Noct. t. 71 ; 

 Stand. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 152. 



Misdin nummosa, Ev. Faun. Volg. Ur. p. 232 (1844) ; Frr. Beitr. iv 

 pi. 351. f. 5. 



Head and thorax olive-brown mixed with white and black ; tarsi 

 ringed with white ; abdomen grey -brown. Fore wing olive-brown 

 with a reddish tinge, sparsely irrorated with white, chiefly on the 

 veins, and slightly suffused with black ; a whitish patch at base of 

 costa traversed by the double, waved, black subbasal line from costa 

 to submedian fold ; antemedial line double, waved, filled in with 

 white : claviform large, defined by black ; orbicular and reniform 

 with brown centres and white annuli defined by black, the former 

 round, the latter rather irregular and with its outer edge indented ; 

 a medial shade, oblique to median nervure, then somewhat dentate ; 

 postmedial line defined by white on outer side, strong!}' dentate, 

 ijent outwards below costa and strongly incurved below vein 4, 

 some white points bej-ond it on costa ; subterminal line white, 

 defined on inner side by a series of small dentate black marks, 

 angled outwards at vein 7 and somewhat dentate at veins 4, 3 ; 

 a terminal series of small black lunules defined by white ; cilia 

 intersected with white. Hind wing ochreous white slightly irrorated 

 with brown, the veins and marginal areas strongly suffused with 

 brown ; cilia with a brown line near base ; the underside with 

 discoidal spot, sinuous postmedial line, and diffused subterminal 

 band. 



Hah. France, Sand Coll. ; SwitzeelanI), Zeller, Frey, and Leech 

 Colls.: ArsiEiA ; Italy, Capri (C,-S'. i?/-o(rHf) ; Dalmatia ; Kussia, 



