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■ THE MOTHS OF INDIA. 



SUPPLEMENTARY PAPER TO THE VOLUMES IN 



< THE FAUNA OF BRITISH INDIA. ' 



SERIES III. PART III, 



By Sir George Hampson, Bart., e.z.s., f.e.s. 



{Continued from page 461 of this Volume.') 



Sub-family Agrotin^e. 



Genus Feltia. 



Type. 



Feltia, Wlk., IX , 203 (1856) ducens. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi obliquely upturned, not reaching vertex of 

 head, the second joint fringed with long hair in front ; frons with slight ridge- 

 like vertical prominence ; antenna? of male serrate and fasciculate in Indian 

 species ; tibiea strongly spined, the mid and hind tibiaj with tufts of hair on 

 outer side from base. Forewing rather short and broad, the apex rounded ; veins 

 3 and 5 from near angle of cell ; 6 from upper angle ; 9 from 10 anastomosing, 

 with 8 to form the areole ; 11 from cell. Hindwing with veins 3'4 from angle 

 of cell ; 5 obsolescent from just below middle of discocelulars ; 6 - 7 from upper 

 angle ; male with the claspers simple, hooked. 



I628e. Feltia duo-signa, Hmpsn., Cat. Lep. Phal. B.M., IV., p. 350, pi. OS, 

 f. lu (1903). 



<J. Head and thorax brown, mixod with grey ; palpi blackish at sides, except at 



tips ; tegulre with black 

 medial line ; tarsi 

 tinged with white; 

 abdomen grey-brown. 

 Forewing fuscous 

 brown, strongly irro- 

 Feltia tiuo-sifjtia £ \ rated with grey ; a 



double waved, subbasal line from costa to submedian fold ; a waved black 

 antemedial line angled outwards below costa and strongly above inner margin, 

 defined by whitish on inner side ; claviform elongate, black, or with slight 

 greyish centre ; orbicular and reniform fuscous defined by black, the former 

 round, elliptical, or produced to a point on outer side, the latter large, strongly 

 angled inwards on median nervure, and sometimes connected with the former ; 

 the postmedial line dentate, black defined by whitish on outer side, bent out- 

 wards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then oblique, and incurved in submedian 

 fold ; the subterminal line whitish, angled outwards at vein 7 and dentate on 

 veins 4*3, with a series of dentate black marks before its medial part ; a terminal 

 series of black points ; cilia with pale line at base. Hindwing white, tinged 

 with brown on costal and terminal areas ; the veins brown ; a brown terminal 

 line and lines through the cilia ; the underside with the costal area brown, 

 irrorated with white, a dark discoidal spot and traces of curved postmedial line. 



