FELTIA, 337 



slightly irrorated with, fuscous : the suhbasal line represented by a 

 few black scales below costa and cell ; traces of an anteraedial line 

 oblique from costa to siibmedian fold where it is angled ; orbicular and 

 renit'orm defined by blackish, the former rounded, open above ; the 

 postmedial line very indistinct, bent outwards below costa, excurved 

 to vein 4, then incurved ; the subtermiual line only defined by 

 diffused blackish suifusion on inner side, curved ; a fine pale line at 

 base of cilia. Hind wing pale fuscous brown ; the underside whitish, 

 the costal and terminal areas irrorated with brown, a diffused, curved 

 postmedial line. 



Hah. KuMAox, Ralam Valley 12,000 feet {Datlde), 1 S type. 

 Exp. 36 millim. 



Genus FELTIA. 



Type. 



Feltia., Wlk. ix. 202 (1856) due-ens. 



Proboscis fully deTeloped ; palpi obliquely upturned, not I'eacbing vertex of 

 head, tbe 2nd joint fringed with long hair in front ; frons with vertical 

 ridge-like prominence ; tibice strongly spined, the mid and hind tibiie with tufts 

 of hair on outer side from base. Fore wing short and broad, the apex rounded ; 

 veins 3 and 5 from near angle of cell ; 6 from upper angle ; 9 from 10 anas- 

 tomosing with 8 to form the areole ; 11 from cell. Hind wing with veins o 

 and 4 i'rom angle of cell ; 5 obsolescent from below middle of discocellulars ; 

 G, 7 frouj upper angle; male with the claspers simple, hooked. 



Sect. I. AntenntB of male with long branches ; the spines on fore tibiae very 

 stout. 



A. Fore wing with the inner and terminal areas not reddish. 



a. Fore wing with the median nervure defined by white 



f-treaks gladiaria. 



b. Fore wing with the median nervure not defined bv white 



sti-eaks. 

 a\ Fore wing without flesh-coloured streaks in discal 



and subniedian folds venerahilis. 



b^. Fore wing with flesh-coloured streaks in discal and 



submedian folds milleri. 



B. Fore wing with the inner and terminal areas reddish circumdaia. 



602. Feltia gladiaria. 



Aqrotix gladiaria, Morr. Proc. Bost. Soc. N. H. xvii. p. 1G2 (1874) ; Smith, 



"Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 82. 

 Ayroiis mornsoniana, Riley, Proc. Bost. Soc. N. H. xvii. p. 28G (1874). 



(S . Head and thorax purplish grey mixed with brown ; palpi black 

 except at tips ; tegular and patagia edged with brown, the tegula) with 

 slight medial line ; tibia) and tarsi banded with black ; abdomen grey 

 irrorated with fuscous, the anal tuft tinged with fulvous ; a lateral 

 series of Ijlack spots. Fore wing pinkish ochreous, sulfused with 

 brown and slate-grey in, below, and just beyond cell and on terminal 

 area ; the subbasal line represented by an oblique pale striga, defined 

 by black on inner side, from costa, and another from median nervure 

 to vein 1 ; tlie antemedial line pale defined by black, acutely angled 

 outwards below costa, then obsolescent to median nervure, below 



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