POLIA. 201 



1415. Polia conspersa. 



Noctua nana, Eott. Naturf. \x. p. 132 (1776), nee Hiifn. ; Staud. Cat. Lep. 



pal. p. 162. 

 Noctua conspersa, Schiff. Wien. Verz. p. 71 (1776) ; Esp. Scbmet.t. iv. 



pi. 119. f. 5; Hiibn. Eur. Schmett., Noct. f. 52; Dup. Lep. Fr. ri. 



p. 354, pi. 95. f. 1. 

 Bomhyx annidata, Fabr. Spec. Ins. ii. p. 204 (1781). 

 Biaiithoecia ochrea, Gregson, Ent. Rec. ii. p. 306 (1891). 

 Bianthcecia dealba fa, ^taud. Iris, v. p. 365 (1892). 

 Biantkoecia hetklandica, Staud. Iris, v. p. 366 (1892). 



Head and thorax white with black markings ; tegulae and patagia 

 edged with black, the former with black medial line ; tarsi ringed 

 with white ; abdomen pale brown. Fore wing olive-grej' suffused 

 in part with black and with white patches tinged in part with 

 yellow ; a basal white patch on costa traversed by the double, 

 waved, subbasal line from costa to submedian fold ; a double, 

 waved, antemedial line traversing a white patch on inner margin ; 

 claviform defined by black, with a bidentate white patch beyond it 

 on base of vein 2 extending into the cell on outer side of the 

 orbicular, which is round, white defined by black, and with some 

 white marks on costa above it ; reniform white defined by black 

 and with olive centre ; postmedial line double, lunulate, filled in 

 with white towards costa and inner margin, bent outwards below 

 costa, slightly incurved at discal fold, incurved below vein 4, 

 some white points beyond it on costa, and a white patch 

 on inner area ; subterminal line white, defined on inner side 

 by some dentate black marks at middle, angled outwards at 

 vein 7 and escurved at middle, the area beyond it more or less 

 suffused with white and with a white apical patch ; a terminal series 

 of small black lunules ; cilia chequered fuscous and white. Hind 

 wing fuscous brown, the interspaces rather paler towards base ; cilia 

 white at tips ; the underside greyish thickly irrorated with fuscous, 

 a discoidal spot and curved postmedial and subtei'minal bands. 



Ab. 1. ochrea. Fore wing with the markings ochreous instead 

 of white. 



Ab. 2. hetlilandica. Fore wing much darker, often almost 

 uniform fuscous, the cilia without white, — Shetland Is. 



Ab. 3. dealhata. Fore wing with the white markings reduced, 

 the apical patch absent. — Armenia ; W. Turkestan ; E. Siberia. 



Hah. BRiTAiif, Shetland, Orkneys, Hebrides {McArthur), England, 

 Ireland, Leech Coll. ; Fr\nce, Sand CoU. ; Germany, Zeller and Frey 

 Colls. ; HtrjTGART, Leech Coll. ; Switzerland, Zeller Coll. ; Algeria, 

 Bone (Lewis), 1 (^ ; Arhexia ; Asia Minor, Pontus, Bithynia ; 

 W. Turkestan, Issyk-kul ; W. Siberia, Altai ; Mongolia, Uliassutai, 

 1 c5' , Urga ; Tibet, Amdo ; S.E. Siberia, Dahuria, IJssuri. Ea^jy. 

 36 miliim. 



Larva. Meyr. Brit. Lep. p. 77 ; Barrett, Lep. Brit. iv. p. 252, pi. 164. 



Pale brownish ochreous ; dorsal line pale, traversing a series of 

 dark V-shaped marks ; two lateral pale brownish lines ; spiracular 

 line whitish; s[iiracles pink: head pale brownish with four dark 

 streaks. Food-plants : seed-capsules of Lychms and Silene. 7-9. 



