232 KOCTTJID^E. 



marginal orange dashes ; cilia chequered brown and orange. Hind 

 wing pale fuscous, with traces of a lunule at end of cell ; a 

 postmedial line and submarginal band ; cilia orange-} 7 ellow ; under- 

 side with cell-spot and irregular postmedial line. 



Hob. Sikhim ; Khasis. Exp. 36 millim. Type in B. M. 



1787. Polia sikkimensis, Moore, P. Z. S. 1881, p. 348, pi. 38, fig. 16 ; 

 C. Sf S. no. 2101. 



Differs from herchatra in being of a duller colour. Eore wing 

 with the ante- and postmedial lines obscure ; the orbicular and 

 reniform whitish, the latter large and prominent ; the yellow 

 dashes of the submarginal line smaller ; cilia of both wings grey. 



In another form the whole of the markings of the fore wing 

 are obscured and only just indicated, so that it is nearly uniformly 

 dark irrorated with yellow scales. 



Hab. Sikhim, 10,000 feet. Exp. 28-32 millim. 



1788. Polia canosparsa, n. sp. 



c? . Differs from lierchatra, in being much darker, the head but 

 slightly tinged with yellow ; thorax and abdomen without yellow. 

 Pore wing slightly irrorated with pale yellow and grey, the mark- 

 ings less prominent ; the submarginal line slightly outlined with 

 grey and with no yellow spots ; cilia black and grey. Hind wing 

 darker towards outer margin, the cilia tipped with grey. 



Hab. Sikhim, 12,000 feet (Elwes). Exp. 38 millim. Type 

 in coll. Elwes. 



1789. Polia transversa, Moore, Lep. Atk. p. 125; C.$ S.-no. 1970. 

 Hecatera modesta, Moore, Lep. Atk. p. 125 ; C. fy S. no. 1969. 



$ . Head and thorax clothed with grey and black scales ; ab- 

 domen fuscous. Fore wing clothed with black, white, and ochreous 

 scales ; indistinct double waved subbasal, antemedial, and postmedial 

 waved lines ; the orbicular and reniform with white edges and 

 fairly prominent, the latter conjoined at its lower side to the 

 incurved postmedial line ; a prominent white dentate submarginal 

 line. Hind wing fuscous ; underside with cell-spot and postmedial 

 line. 



The form transversa has the basal and outer areas of fore wing 

 whitish, the medial band darker, whilst modesta is more uniform. 



Hab. Kashmir ; Thandiani, Punjab. Exp. 38 millim. 



1790. Polia endroma, Smnh. A. M. N. H. (6) xii, p. 259. 



$ . Head, thorax, and fore wing bright chestnut ; the last with 

 an obliquely excurved blue-grey antemedial line, the area before 

 it irrorated with blue-grey scales ; the orbicular and reniform 



