AGRiiirimr.s 



POLIONTCTA. 



•II 



costa to median nervure, then inwardly oblique and conjoined at 

 inner margin to antemedial line ; postmedial line rather indistinct, 

 slightly bent outwards below costa, then waved, incurved below 

 vein 4 ; postmedial area suffused with black except bet-ween 

 veins 6 and 5 and with some white points on costa; subterminal 

 line obsolete towards costa, dentate at middle and angkd 

 inwards at discal and submedian folds ; a terminal series of small 

 black lunules : cilia green intersected with black. Hind wing 

 white; a black discoidal spot ; an indistinct minutely waved post- 

 medial line and faint diffused subterminal line ; a lunulate black 

 terminal line ; the underside with the costal area irrorated with 

 fuscous, an antemedial band of diffused black scales, large dis- 

 coidal black spot, rather diffused postmedial line excurved to vein 4, 

 then oblique, and terminal patches of dark irroration at apex, middle, 

 and submedian interspace. 



Hub. U.S.A., S. California, 1 6 • Exp. 30 millim. 



Genus POLIONYCTA, nov. 



Type, P. apicata. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi upturned, the 2nd joint reaching vertex of 

 head and smoothly scaled, the 3rd long; fi'ons smooth; eyes large, rounded; 

 antenna of female nearly simple; head and thorax clothed chiefly with scales 

 and without crests; tibia? slightly fringed with hair; abdomen with dorsal 

 crest at base only. Fore wing broad, triangular, the apex rounded, the 

 ternien crenulate ; veins 3 and 5 from near angle of cell ; 6 from upper angle ; 

 I) from 10 anastomosing with 8 to foim the areole; 11 from cell, llind 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. 



3615. Polionycta apicata, n. sp. 



2 . Head and teguhe grey suffused with red-brown, thorax 

 grev slightly tinged with brown; fore and mid tarsi banded with 

 black; abdomen gre\ -brown with pale rufous segmental lines. 

 Fore wing silvery grey irrorated with pale brown and slightly 



Fig. 10. — Polionycta apicata, £. 



tinged with rufous in parts, a triangular brown patch on middle 

 of costa and the apical area suffused with brown to vein 4 ; ante- 

 medial line double, rufous, irregularly waved ; orbicular represented 

 by a minute rufous annulus ; reniform large, defined by brown, its 

 centre tinged with brown, constricted at middle, its lower extremity 

 produced and acute ; postmedial line double, very oblique and 

 slightly sinuous from costa to vein 4 near termen, then inwardly 



