360 



NOCTTJID^E. 



fringed with bair at sides. Fore wing with veins 3 and 5 from near angle of 

 cell ; from npper angle ; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form the areole : 

 1 1 from cell. 11 ind wing with veins 3,4 from angle of cell; 5 obsolescent 

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

 cell near base only. 



A. Fore wing with subterminal seriesof small whitish Innules. 



a. Fore wing with the orbicular and renifurui distinctly 



defined flavidentula. 



b. Fore wing with the orbicular and reniform indistinct ... violascens. 



B. Fore wing without subterminal series of yellowish-white 



luuules viola. 



*1660. Poliodes flavidentula. 

 Mamestra flavidentula, Schaus, J. N.Y. Ent. Soc. xi. p. 230 (1903). 



S ■ Head and thorax grey mixed with reddish brown ; palpi 

 blackish at .sides ; frons with black bar above ; teguloe with black 

 medial line ; patagia with some black scales near upper edge ; tarsi 

 banded with black ; abdomen grey mixed with reddish brown and 

 dorsally suffused with fuscous. Fore wing grey slightly irrorated 

 with reddish brown ; subbasal line represented by double black striae 

 from costa and cell : a black streak in base of submedian fold and 



Fig. 95. — Poliodes flavidentula, c?. }. 



another on inner margin before the antemedial line, which is 

 double, waved, angled outwards below costa and inwards on vein 1 

 and to inner margin ; claviform large, triangular, finely defined by 

 black ; orbicular and reniform large, grey with fine black outlines 

 and reddish centres, the former rounded ; a medial reddish-brown 

 line, oblique from costa to vein 2, then dentate ; postmedial line 

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

 oblique, and with a V-shaped black mark on its inner side beyond 

 the extremity of claviform, some white points beyond it on costa ; 

 subterminal line represented by a series of small yellowish-white 

 lunules defiued by dentate black marks on inner side and with 

 black streaks from them to the terminal lunules ; cilia grey, with 

 brown lines at base and tips, interrupted at the veins. Hind wing 

 whitish suffused with brown, except in interspaces of basal two- 

 thirds ; cilia white, with brown line near base ; the underside 

 white, the marginal areas suffused with brown, a black discoidal 

 spot and postmedial sinuous line with dark strise at the veins. 

 Hah. Chili, type t J in Coll. Schaus. Exji. 44 millim. 



