722 CATALOGUE OF 



DlANTHiECIA GEOMETROIDES. 



Mas. Fusca ; caput cinereum ; thorax cinereo nigroque consper- 

 sus ; abdomen cinereum, linea interrupt a fusca ; alee margine 

 exteriore subdentato ; anticce chalybceo-fuscce, lineis non- 

 nullis nigris dentatis plus minusve dilatatis, fascia obliqua 

 cinerea nigro marginata medio dilatata postice coarctata, 

 punctis submarginalibus nigris elongatis, orbiculari et reni- 

 formi obsoletis ; posticce cinerea, ceneo-fusco latissime mar- 

 ginatce. 



Male. Brown. Head and under side cinereous. Antennas 

 minutely setulose. Thorax speckled with cinereous and with black. 

 Abdomen cinereous, with an interrupted brown line, extending very 

 little beyond the hind wings ; apical tuft small. Wings with the 

 exterior border slightly dentate. Fore wings with a chalybeous 

 tinge and with several dentate more or less dilated black lines ; a 

 middle irregular oblique cinereous black-bordered band, which is 

 very broad in the middle and is much contracted nearer the interior 

 border ; submar^inal transversely elongated black points and black 

 marginal festoon bordered with pale cinereous; orbicular and reni- 

 forni not traced. Hind wings cinereous, with a very broad aeneous- 

 brown border ; marginal festoon dark brown. Length of the body 

 8 lines ; of the wings 20 lines. 



a. Swan River. From Mr. Diggles' collection. 



Genus HECATE RA, C. L. H. xi. 508. 

 Hecate ra stkigtcoixis. 

 strigicollis, Wlngr. Wien. Ent. Man. iv, 170. 

 California. 



Genus POLIA, C. L. H. xi. 513, 



POLIA PLATINEA. 



platinea, Cat. Lep. Het. xi. 516. 



a— c. Ratisbon. From M. H.-Schaeffer's collection. 



POLIA MONTANA. 



man tana, H.-Sch. Schm. vi. 55. f. 625. 



