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1417. Polia guenei. (Plate LXXXIV. fig. 5.) 

 Dianthaecia gueneei, Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 163 (1901). 



Head and thorax black irrorated with white and slightly with 

 ochreous ; pectus ochreous, legs ochreous and fuscous, the tarsi 

 banded with black ; abdomen ochreous irrorated with fuscous. 

 Pore wing black irrorated with white and some ochreous, especially 

 at base ; the medial- area yellowish white except at middle of costa 

 and beyond the reniform ; subbasal line defined by white on outer 

 side, waved from costa to submedian fold ; antemedial line double 

 filled in with whitish, waved ; claviform absent ; orbicular and 

 reniform moderate, incompletely defined by black, the former 

 round, the latter with irregular outline and ill-defined whitish 

 annulus ; a medial line oblique from costa to median nervure, then 

 dentate ; postmedial line lunulate, bent outwards below costa and 

 incurved below vein 4, some pale points beyond it on costa ; sub- 

 terminal line ill-defined, whitish tinged with ochreous and with 

 traces of dentate black marks before it at middle, excurved at vein 7 

 and somewhat dentate at veins 4, 3 ; a terminal series of small 

 black lunules ; cilia fuscous intersected with ochreous. Hind wing 

 white tinged with ochreous, the veins and terminal area fuscous ; 

 cilia ochreous white mixed with fuscous ; underside white, the 

 costal area irrorated with fuscous, a slight discoidal point, sinuous 

 postmedial line, and diffused subterminal band. 



Hah. Asia Minor, Pontus, Bithynia, Taurus ; Syria, 1 § , Autioch, 

 Mardin ; Cyprus. Exp. 40 millim. 



Genus PACHETRA. „ 



Type. 



Pac^e^ra, Guen. Ann. Soc Ent. Fr. 1841, p. 241, non descr. ; 



id. Noct. i. p. 177 (1852) leucoph<sa. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi upturned, fringed with hair in front; frons 

 smooth ; eyes large, rounded ; antenn£e of male bipectinate with long branches 

 to near apex ; head and thorax clothed with rough hair and hair-like scales, 

 the pro- and metathorax with spreading crests ; abdomen with dorsal series of 

 crests. Fore wing with veins 3 and .5 from near angle of cell ; 6 from ujjper 

 angle; 9 from ]0 anastomosing with 8 to form the areole ; 11 from cell. 

 Hind wing with veins 3, 4 from angle of cell ; 5 obsolescent from just below 

 middle of discocellulars ; 6, 7 from upper angle ; 8 anastomosing with the cell 

 near base only. 



1418. Pachetra leucophaea. 



Noctua leiicophaa , SchiflP. Wien. Verz. p. 82 (176fi) ; View. Tab. Yerz. v. 



2, p. 23 (,1790); Hiibn. Samml. Eur. Schmett., Noct. f. 80; Dup. Lep. 



Fr. vi. p. 282, pi. 90. f . 6 ; Steph, 111. Brit. Ent., Haust. ii. p. 190; 



Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 155. 

 Bombyx fulminea, Fabr. Sp. Ins. ii. p. 205 (1781). 

 Bomhyx iiestigialis, Esp. Schmett. iii. pi. 53. ff. 4, 5 (1785). 

 Foctua ravida, Esp. Schmett. iv. pi. 145. f. 1 (1789). 

 Hadena homhycitia, Ev. Bull. Mosc. 1847, ii. p. 78, pi. 6. iF. 1, 2. 

 Mamesira incana. Mill. Cat. rais. Suppl. ii. p. 17 (1875). 

 Pachetra pyrenaica, Oberth. Et. Ent. viii. p. 50 (1884); id. ix. pi. 3. f. 10. 



Head and thorax whitish mixed with red-brown and black ; 



