340 



noctuid.t;. 



60G. Feltia pectinicornis. (Plate LXVII. fig. 32.) 



Feltinpicfinkornis, Smith, Bull. U.S. Nat. Mus. 38. no. 114 (1890); id. 

 Cat. Koct. N. Am. p. 82. 



6 . Head and thorax pale grey-brown mixed with black ; palpi 

 blackish at sides except at extremity ; frons with black bar above 

 it; tegulEB with black medial line and the tips blackish ; patagia 

 with black line above ; tibiae and tarsi blackish with p;ilc rings ; 

 abdomen brownish grey. Fore wing grey suffused with pale brown ; 

 the subcostal and medial nervures defined by fine white streaks ; 

 the base of subraediun interspace blackish ; the subbasal line 

 cxcurved, Avhite defined by black on inner side and ending at vein 1 ; 

 the antemedial line whitish defined on each side by blackish, angled 

 outwards on subcostal nervure, inwards on median nervure, then 

 oblique and ending at vein 1 ; claviform elongate, blackish defined 

 by deep black ; orbicular and reniform white defined by black, their 

 centres by brown, the former V-shaped, open above, the cell before 

 and between them and beyond reniform blackish ; short black 

 streaks above bases of veins 2 and 3 ; the postmedial line pale 

 defined by fuscous striae on each side of it, minutely waved, bent 

 outwards below costa to just beyond reniform and incurved below 

 vein 4 ; the subterminal line indistinct, somewhat dentate, angled 

 outwards at vein 7 and excurved at middle, pale defined by short 

 black streaks before it, above vein 7, and at middle and beyond it 

 in the interspaces ; some pale points on costa towards apex. Hind 

 wing whitish suffused with fuscous, except towards inner margin ; 

 cilia white ; the underside, with the costal and terminal areas, 

 irrorated and slightly suffused with fuscous brown. 



Hab. U.S.A., Texas, 2 6 . Exp. 40 millini. 



607. Feltia evanidalis. 



Agrotis evanidalis, Grote, Bull. Geol. Surv. iv. p. 172 (1878); Smith, Cat. 

 Noct. N. Am. p. 82. 



(S . Head and thorax ochreous white, slightly mixed with red- 

 brown ; the branches of antennse brown ; femora fuscous above ; 

 abdomen ochreous white, tinged with rufous towards extremity. 



Fig. 65. — Feltia evanidalis, (^ . \. 



Fore wing ochreous white, suffused with pale red-brown and purplish 

 grey ; the subcostal and median nervures and base of vein 1 streaked 

 with white; the cell and area below it and just beyond it darker 



