clcptosehe- 
ma. 
naidct. 
irascci. 
iransvitia. 
verruca. 
dima. 
rodora. 
pliaulocy- 
ria. 
euryria. 
alboguilata. 
canedspar- 
sata. 
110 POLIA. By Dr. M. Drafdt. 
P. cleptoschema Dyar (17 a). Forewing grey, irregularly speckled darker, with a white basal stripe, 
parted and bordered by black ; the anterior transverse line consists of 3 white, interrupted bows not bordered 
with a darker colour, the posterior line being black, single, dentate, submedianly bordered with white; the 
broad coniform macula is encircled with black, the rapper maculae the same, the reniform macula has distally 
a white line ; undulate line black with a larger patch at the costal margin and above the anal angle, here with 
a white patch below it. Hindwing white, but grey at the costal margin, apex and narrow at the distal margin. 
Expanse of wings: 27 mm. Mexico (Tehuacan). 
P. naida Dyar. (17 a). Uni-coloured dark slaty grey with a long black basal ray with fine black, at 
the proximalmargin nearing transverse stripes being connected with each other by a black stripe from the 
reniform macula; the somewhat lighter maculae are finely encircled with black, the reniform macula is pupilled 
with a red-brown crescent; undulate line indistinctly lighter with a black streak above the anal angle. Hind- 
wing whitish. Allied with seminaria, but not so variegated. Mexico (City) in August. 
P. trasca Dyar (17 b) has dark grey forewings, with a blackish spotted subbasal line, behind it as far 
as the anterior transverse line a lustrous olive-green space; between the transverse lines, which are nearing 
each other very much at the proximal margin, the median area is of a darker grey, the somewhat lighter 
maculae are finely surrounded with black, the whitish undulate line is indistinct, at the anal angle with a 
black, below it white-spotted anal ray. Hindwing whitish, at the apex and distal margin shaded with grey. 
Mexico (Tehuacan) in August. 
P. transvitta Dyar (17 b) is another small, very similar species, of a light grey, finely strewn darker, 
with a black basal ray bifurcating at the end; the proximal transverse line is whitish, broadly bent outwards, 
terminating at the proximal margin near the distal similar line, between both lines, adjoining the proximal 
line, there is a broad oblique shade the lower end of which is obliquely cut off by the distal transverse line; 
the upper maculae are hardly recognizable, blackish; of the undulate line there only remains a white patch 
above the anal angle; fringes speckled darker. Hindwing whitish, veins and distal margin darker. Expanse 
of wings: 22 mm. Mexico (Tehuacan) in August. 
P. verruca Dyar. Forewing blackish-grey, with a black basal ray cutting the basal line; the proximal 
black, white-edged transverse line consists of 3 bows; the black, pointed coniform macula touches the distal 
similar transverse line; ring-macula very small, the reniform macula white, pupilled black; undulate line white 
with a black streak above the anal angle. Expanse of wings: 22 mm. Mexico (Tehuacan) in September. 
P. dima Dyar (17 b) is on the forewing dark lilac grey, almost blackish, with fine black, towards the 
proximal margin convergent transverse lines enclosing the narrow median area, which is blackened as far as 
the submedian fold and in which the large, doubly ringed maculae are situate; behind the postmedian line at 
the costal margin a dark triangular shade; undulate line extinct. Hindwing white, at the margin and on the 
veins brownish. Mexico (Zacualpan). 
P. rodora Dyar (17 b) is of a delicate lilac grey, in the disc tinted brown, with a dark fine basal 
ray; the fine, double, dentate transverse lines are rather indistinct, the coniform macula is above marked brown, 
the ring-macula is extinct, the reniform macula encircled with yellowish, proximally finely, distally very thickly; 
the light, bent undulate line terminates into the lilac subapical shade; the dark fiinges are spotted black. 
Hindwing blackish-brown, towards the base whitish with dark veins. Expanse of wings: 28 mm. Mexico 
(City), August. The colouring is the same as in pensilis (16 e), but the species is smaller, the transverse lines 
are well separated and not united by the coniform macula. 
P. phaulocyria Dyar (17 b) has lustrous lilac grey forewings with a discal area being darkened below 
the cell; at the base of the costal margin there is a large, almost square, flesh-coloured reddish spot, below 
bordered by the black basal ray ; the anterior transverse line is double, indistinct, the posterior line angular 
on the middle radial vein, not undulate or dentate, light, proximally accompanied by a black line, close in 
front of it the broacl median shade; reniform macula grey, distally white, behind it reddish-brown dusting; 
distal area not or only slightly lighter; close at the distal margin is the undulate line, which is dusted whitish. 
Hindwing dark brownish-grey with light fringes. Mexico (Zacualpan). 
P. eucyria Dyar (17 c). Forewing as far as the postmedian line dark brown, behind it flesh-coloured 
rcdclisli-grey like a spot at the base of the costal margin, marked almost like in phaulocyria ; the marginal 
area is shaded with blackish, before it the entirely indistinct undulate line powdered with whitish. Hindwing 
in the $ whitish, at the margin narrowly smoked, in the $ quite brownish-grey. Mexico (Cuernavaca). 
P. alboguttata Grt. (17 b) has black forewings dusted with silvery blue before and behind the discal 
area, with black, white-edged transverse lines; the maculae are finely encircled with black, the reniform macula 
is pupilled brown and in a white ring; the white undulate line is proximally defined by small black sagittae; 
fringes speckled white. Hindwing whitish, on the veins and margin brownish. Oregon, California, New Mexico. 
P. caneosparsata Dogn. is on the forewing densely strewn with black, olive-grey and white, with white 
and black indistinct markings; white dots at the costal margin represent the beginnings of transverse lines; 
the ring-macula is indistinctly encircled with black, above it at the costal margin a white dot, surrounded by 
