EUROIS. — POLIA. 231 



1785. Eurois virens, Butl. A. M. N. H. (5) i, 1878, p. 194; id. 111. 



Set. hi, pi. 45, fig. 5 ; C. $ S. no. 1930 a. 

 Eurois magnifica, Moore, Lep. Atk. p. 127 ; C. fy S. no. 1928. 



Head and thorax yellow-green; the second joint of palpi and 

 tufts on thorax red-brown ; abdomen slaty blue. Fore wing dark 

 brown; the costal area suffused with green; the subbasal and 

 antemedial double waved lines filled in with green ; the orbicular 

 and reniform with reddish outlines and dark centres, the latter 

 with a pale lunule in centre ; the postmedial double lunulate line 

 filled in with grey ; three white specks on costa towards apex ; a 

 submarginal series of black and green lunules, the black part being 

 elongate in one lunule below the costa and two above middle ; a 

 marginal series of small black and rufous lunules ; cilia red-brown. 

 Hind wing slaty blue, fuscous towards outer margin; the cilia 

 pure white. 



The Sikhim form magnified has the inner area of fore wing 

 reddish, the hind wing brown. 



Hab. Japan ; Dharmsala ; Thandiani ; Sikhim. Exp. 70 millim. 



Genus POLIA. 



Polia, Ochs. Eur. Schmett. iv, p. 73 (1816). 

 Crymodes, Guen. Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. 1841, p. 238. 

 Nikara, Moore, Lep. Ath. p. 126 (1882). 

 Diniya, Moore, Lep. Atk. p. 121. 

 *Hyada, Moore, Lep. Atk. p. 129. 



Type, P. flavieincta, Schiff., from Europe. 



Range. Nearctic and Palsearctic regions ; Himalayas ; Khasis. 



Differs from Eurois in the eyes having lashes, the palpi, head, 

 and thorax being much more hairy, the last without tufts ; cilia 

 of fore wing but slightly crenulate. 



Sect. I. (Polia). Antennae ciliated. 

 A. Fore wing broad. 



1786. Polia herchatra, Swinh. A. M. N. H. (6) xii, p. 260. 



Head and thorax clothed with golden brown, black, and grey 

 hair; abdomen pale, with orange anal 

 tuft. Eore wing clothed with black, 

 golden, and grey scales ; a large yellow 

 patch at base below median nervure ; 

 the subbasal and antemedial waved lines 

 outlined with grey ; the orbicular grey ; 

 the reniform with yellow marks on its 

 inner and outer margins ; the post- 

 p /• 7, Flg ; -l 30, - , medial lunulate line outlined with grey, 



u * curved, and nearly meeting the ante- 



medial line at inner margin ; a series of irregularly placed sub- 



