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black dots; the hind wings are dark brown, with a dark spot in the centre, followed by a slender, black, 
transverse line, edged with whitish, and with a white subapical stripe. The thorax has two black arches in front. 
The caterpillar is depressed, and of an ashy colour, with dark lines and marks on the back; the sides paler, 
with a darker line running along the spiracles ; it varies, however, in its colouring, and feeds on various trees, as 
the oak, beech, apple, &c., hiding itself by day in the crevices of the bark, the moth appearing in the middle of 
April and October. It is mostly taken by digging for the pup at the roots of trees. It is a common and 
widely-dispersed species. 
Note—Boisduval forms this species alone into his genus Agriopis ; its caterpillar state differing from that of the preceding species, 

SPECIES 6.—MISELIA TEMPLI. Puate XXXIX., Fie. 11. 
Synonymes.— Noctua Templi, Thunberg ; Ochsenheimer ; Stephens ; Ill. Haust. 3, pl. 26, f. 1 (Polia T.) ; Wood, Ind. Ent. pl. 13, f. 301. 
Crymodes Templi, Guénée; Doubleday. 
This species measures 13 inch in the expanse of the fore wings, which are of a dark greenish ashy-brown, 
with yellowish stigmata and waved strige, which are, however, very indistinctly marked, the stigmata being 
small ; the striga preceding the stigmata is very much angulated, and edged with black, and that following 
them is curved and much indented, and the subapical one is irregularly waved. The centre of the wing is 
darkest ; the cilia is concolorous, with dark spots ; the hind wings ashy yellow, with a rather indistinct, central 
lunule, and two dusky strigz. 
Very rare, but widely dispersed, having been taken in Devonshire, and near Liverpool and Birmingham. 
This species scarcely appears to possess a stronger relation with the typical Miselie, than with the Poliz, in which 
genus it is placed by Mr. Stephens. 
DESCRIPTION OF PLATE XL. 
Insects. —Fig. 1. Polia advena (the pale shiny brown). 
a Fig. 2. Polia nebulosa (the gray arches). 3, The Caterpillar. 
FS Fig. 4. Polia occulta (the great brocade). 5, The Caterpillar. 
a Fig. 6. Polia Tincta (the silvery arches). 
J Fig. 7. Polia Herbida (the green arches). 8. The Caterpillar. 
‘ Fig. 9. Polia Flavocincta (the large Ranunculus). 10. The Caterpillar. 
Fig. 11. Polia Dysodea (the Ranunculus). 12. The Caterpillar. 
es Fig. 13. Polia Serena (the broad-barred white). 14. The Caterpillar. 
- Fig. 15, Polia Chi (the July Chi). 
Prants.—Fig. 16. Aquilegia vulgaris (common Columbine), 
Figure 7, Polia Herbida, is from a beautiful drawing by J. Marshall, Esq., made while the fine insect taken by himself was still fresh, a great 
advantage, as the rich green tint very soon fades ; so that the specimens generally seen in cabinets convey but a slight idea of the lively colouring of 
the living moth. Figs. 1, 2, 4, 13, and 15, are from specimens furnished me by Mr, H. Doubleday; 4, P. occulta, from one of three specimens 
captured by that gentleman this season at Epping. Figs. 6, 9, and 11, are from the cabinet of Mr. Bentley. All the caterpillars are from Hiibner. 
Polia Polymita, which is in our lists as a British species, I have omitted altogether, as the only specimen upon which its insertion was founded; 
the one in the cabinet bequeathed by the late Mr. Vigors to the Zoological Society, has been lost. H.N. H. 
POLIA, Hisner. (APLECTA, Gutnfx, Bov., nec POLIA, Bov.) 
The species of this group, as here associated together, according to the views of English authors, form an 
artificial assemblage, comprising, however, some of the largest insects of the present family, some of them being 
very closely allied to the Miselia, from which, however, they differ in their larve being without protuberances 
at the extremity of the body. ‘The antennz are slender, with the underside furnished, in the males, with a row 
of bristles, or with pectinated lobes ; the palpi are elevated as high as the top of the eyes, and obliquely porrected ; 

