NEPHELODES. — POLIODES. 359 



Graphiphora mhdolens. Wlk. x. 405 (1856). 



Monosca subnotata, Wlk. Char. Undescr. Het. p. 29 (1869). 



Head and thorax bright rtifous with a purplish tinge; tarsi 

 banded with fuscous ; abdomen ochreous tinged with rufous. Fore 

 wing pale rufous suffused with rosy purplish, the area between the 

 medial and postmedial lines deep rufous except costal and inner 

 areas ; subbasal line represented by a pale striga on costa : aute- 

 medial line oblique, waved, excurved in submedian interspace ; 

 medial line rather diffused, oblique, excurved in cell ; orbicular and 

 reniform of the ground-colour, well developed, the former rounded, 

 very indistinctly defined ; postmedial line minutely waved, bent 

 outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then incurved, some pale 



Fig. 94. — Nephelodes emmedonia, (^ \. 



points beyond it on costa; subterminal line more or less strongly 

 defined by fuscous on inner side, minutely dentate, angled outward* 

 at vein 7 and excurved at middle ; a terminal series of minute 

 points sometimes present. Hind wing yellowish suffused with 

 brown, rather more strongly towards termen ; the cilia pinkish ; 

 the underside yellowish more or less strongly tinged with pink, a 

 dark discoidal luuule and curved postmedial line. 



Ab. 1. violans. Head, thorax, and fore wing more purple and 

 without the red tones. 



Hah. Canada {Nonnan), 1 cJ , 1 ? , Nova Scotia {Redman), 2 S r 

 1 5 ; W. Canada, Orilla (BusJt), 3 J type, expansa ; U.S.A., 

 E. States, 5 c? , 3 5 , type vioJans, New York, 1 $ , Hlinois, 1 $ » 

 Virginia ; hab. igu. 1 S type siihdolens, 1 $ type subnotata. Exji. 

 40-58 millim. 



Larva. Head dark brown, unmarked. Body uniformly cylin- 

 drical, grey-brown ; dorsal and subdorsal lines broad, straight, pale^ 

 yellow ; sides paler, with a faint diffuse pale lateral line. Sub- 

 stigmatal band broad, even, pale yellow, the subventral region and 

 venter pale. Feet black at base. Feeds on grass, etc. — H. G. D. 



Genus POLIODES, nov. 



Tj'pe, P. flavidontida. 



Proboscis fully clevelopecl ; palpi obliquely upturned, the 1st and 2ad joints- 

 fringed with long hair in front, the cird moderate, porrect ; frons smooth ;. 

 eyes large, rounded, overhung by long cilia ; head and thorax clothed with 

 scales and hair ; antennje of male ciliated ; vertex of head tufted ; tegulte 

 dorsally produced into a sharp ridge ; pro- and uietathorax with spreading 

 crests ; tibi£e fringed with liuir ; abdomen with dorsal series of crests and 



