FELTIA. 



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*G09. Feltia olivia. 



Ajrotis oJivia, Morr. Proc. Eo.st. Sue. N. II. x\iii. p. 238 (1S7(>) ; Smith, 

 Cat. Noct. X. Am. p. 80. 



lleddish clcay-yellow. Fore wing with ill-defiiied dark patch at 

 base ; antemedial line ob.solete towards costa, double, luiiulate ; 

 claviform shorf, defined by black ; orbicular and renit'orm j'ellowish 

 with white annuli. the latter constricted at middle ; the cell before 

 and between the stigmata black ; median nervure streaked with 

 white ; postmedial line obsolete ; subterminal line traceable, defined 

 on inner side by dentate black marks, the area beyond it dark with 

 an apical pale patch ; cilia dusky, with a yellowish line at base. 

 Hind wing pearly white, the veins and margins tinged with fuscous ; 

 the underside grey irroratcd with blackish, a discoidal lunule. 



Bab. U.S.A., Utah. E.rf>. i)9 millim. This species is unknown 

 to me. 



GIO. Feltia ducens. 



Ac/rofitf jaculifera var., Gnen. Noct. i. p. 2G2, pi. .5. f. 4 (18.52). 

 Fdfia ducens, Wik. ix. 203 (ISoli) ; Smith, Gat. Xoct. N. Am. p. 81. 

 Feltia radiafa, Harr. MS. ; Smitli, List Lep. Bor. Am. p. 38. 

 Agrotis subgotkica, Fiteh, 1st & 2nd Eep. Ins. N. Y. p. 314, pi. 3. f. 1, ncc 

 Harv. 



Head and tegulae brown slightly mixed with grey ; palpi blackish 

 at sides ; tegulse with black medial line ; thorax grey mixed with 

 brown, the patagia with dark brown streak above and often fiome 

 ferruginous red at extremity; legs largely marked with black; 

 abdomen brownish grey, the anal tuft tinged with rufous ; a sub- 

 lateral series of blackish spots. Fore wing brown, with fleshy-white 

 streaks on subcostal and median nervures and inner margin ; the 

 subbasal line represented by an oblique white striga from costa and 



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Fig. Qd.—Fdtia ducens, S. \. 



an inwardly oblique striga on a dark brown patch below the cell, 

 the antemedial line by a striga from costa and a line between 

 median nervure and vein 1 ; claviform defined by black and very 

 long, extending to beyond origin of vein 2; an oblique whitish 

 streak above it from antemedian line to near termen ; the orbicular 

 grey, V-shaped, open above, its lower edge whitish defined by 

 black ; renit'orm brownish, sometimes rufous, with white annulus 

 defined bv black : the veins of terminal area blackish on whitish 



