3«J:; Nor II I in:. 



2541. Antitype dubia. 



Polia dubia, Di.p. Lep. Fr. Suppl. iii. p. U-'^G, pi. 2G. f. 4 (183G); Stand. 



Cat. Lep. jvil. p. 17'.'. 

 I'olia c,eni/csie7u<:. iioisd. Ind. Metli. p. 127(1840); Dup. Up. Fr. Siippl. iv. 



p. 95. pi. fvS. f. .'j; Frcver, Xeiip Beitr. v. pi. 411. f . 4 ; Ilerr.-.Si-iiiiff. 



Eur. Schnictt., Xoct. ff. 38. 39, 402 ; Mill. Icones, i. p. 335, pi. -U), ff. 5-7. 

 Polia fi/phoiiia, Mill. Ann. Soc. Linn. Lyons, 1882. p. 178, pi. 4. ff. 10-11. 

 Polia roncloui, Stertz. Iris, xv. p. 18t), pi. vi. f. 25(UHJ2). 



c^. Head and thorax white sli<:htly irroratcd with fuscou.s : 

 palpi blackish at sides except 3rd joiut ; fore tarsi bauded with 

 fuscous : abdomen white slightly tinged with brown. Fore wing 

 ochreous white thickly irroratcd with brown, the basal costal area 

 and medial area irroratcd with bluish fuscous and rather darker ; 

 6ubl):isal line represented by double black striae from costa ; ante- 

 medial line indistinct, defined by white on inner side, oblique, waved, 

 with two blackish points at costa ; claviform almost ob.solere with 

 whitish mark beyond its extremity ; orbicular and rcniform with 

 ill-detined whitish anuuli, the former round, the latter irregular 

 with whitish points on its outer edge and slightly angled inwards 

 on median nervure : traces of a waved medial line ; postmedial 

 line with dark point with white spot beyond it at costa, bent out- 

 wards below costa, then dentate and produced to white points on 

 the veins, incurved below vein 4, some white points beyond it 

 on costa : subterminal line represented by a series of very indistinct 

 pale lunules with slight dentate dark marks on their inner sides, 

 angled outwards on vein 7 ; a terminal series of black points ; cilia 

 chequered whitish and fuscous. Hind wing white, the veins and 

 medial part of terminal area suffused with fuscous ; an indistinct 

 obli(iue minutely waved postmedial line ; the underside more 

 uniform Avhite, with small diseoidal spot. 



2 . Much darker and greyer ; hind wing fuscous, the postmedial 

 line faintly defined by whitish on outer side. 



Ab. 1. typhonia. Fore wang leaden-grey. 



Ab. 2. rondoui. Fore wing steel-blue. — Pyrenees. 



Bab. S. Fr.\xce, Ardt-che, Zeller and Frey Colls., Pyrenees ; 

 Spain, 1 $ : Corsica, Leech Coll. ; Italy, Leech Coll. Kvp. 40- 

 44 millim. 



Larva. Kirbv, Butt. & Mollis Eur. p. 224. 



Stout, pinkish Avith faint darker mottling and yellow lateral 

 stripe. Food-plants : Cistus, Box, Henbane, &c. 12-1. 



2542. Antitype apora. (Plate CIV. fig. 20.) 

 Polia apora. Stand. Iris, x. p. 280 (1897); id. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 179. 

 cJ . Head and thornx white slightly mixed with fuscous : sides 

 of palpi and Irons with dark ])atcb(.s"; tar.si with fuscous bands ; 

 abdomen white dorsally sufl'used with yellow-brown. Fore wing 

 greyish white slightly irroratcd with' fuscous, the medial area 

 suffused with fuscous ; subbasal liuo double, waved, from costa to 



