122 BULLETIN 38, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



Expands 37""" ; 1.5 incLes. 



Habitat. — United States and Canada. 



Also a variable species; the pale forms are voluhilis, the dark speci- 

 mens stigmosa. The western specimens are as a rule narrower winged 

 than the eastern forms, and I have seen some marked semiclarata. 

 The strongly dentate s. t. line is, however, characteristic of this species 

 and renders it easily recognizable. 



Feltia aiinexa Treilscbke. 



1825. Tr., Schmett. Eur. V. I;"i4, Agrotis. 



1829. 'Steph., 111. Br. Eut. Haust. Ii, 117, pi. 22, f. 2, Af/rotis. 



1862. Gn., Sp. Geu. Noct. i, 2G8, Agrotis. 



1882. French, Can. Ent. xiv, 207, life liistory. 



1889. Bntler, Traus. Ent. Soc. Lond., 1889, 378, Agrotis. 



Ground color clay yellow; a patch along costa beyond middle and 

 lower half of basal space darker; veins marked with blackish; trans- 

 verse lines obsoletely indicated, and so far as traceable very irregular. 

 S. t. line moderately well marked pale, close to margin marked with 

 a few sagittate dashes; ordinary spots small, distant, connected by a 

 neat black dash. Claviform faintly outlined but always traceable. 

 Secondaries clear snowy white, a few blackish scales along anterior 

 margin. Beneath primaries powdery, secondaries indescent. 



Expands 37-44'""' ; 1.50-1.75 inches. 



Habitat. — New York, south and west to California, Texas, Cuba. 



Not an uncommon species, and with nialejida easily distinct from all 

 the preceding by the white secondaries, the general habitus and the 

 form of the S genitalia. From vmlejida it is distinguished by the small 

 ordinary spots connected by a neat black dash. I have taken this 

 species on Long Island, but do not know of its occurrence farther north. 

 It is not included in the lists in Lintner's Entomological Contributions; 

 it extends west, however, to the Pacific coast and south to Cuba and 

 into Soutli America. The larval history has been elsewhere referred to 

 in economic publications, but these I have not cited. 



Mr. Butler cites A. anteposita Gn., and A. decernens Wlk., as syn- 

 onyniv^ to this species. 



Feltia maleiida Gn. 



1852. Gn., Sp. Gon. Noct. i, 267, Agrotis. 



1856. Wlk., C. B. Mas. Lep. Het. x, 328, Agrotis. 



1875. Ilarv., Bnff. Bull, in, 5, Agrotis. 



Pale clay yellow, with a strong admixture of pale gray scales; costal 

 region and terminal space darker; veins marked with black scales. 

 Transverse lines irregular and indefinite. T. a. line geminate, with a 

 strong inward angulation on submedian vein ; t. p. line crenulate, 

 with a single even outward curve, situated unusually near the outer 

 margin ; s. t. line narrow, feebly marked, strongly dentate, so near the 

 outer margin that some of the teeth touch it, thus interruiiting the 



