344 NOCTUIDJE. 



streaks ; the postmedial liiic indistinct, M'liitish, bent outAvards 

 below costa, escur\ed to vein 4, then oblique, and with some dark 

 dashes before its medial part ; some white points on costa towards 

 apex; the siibterminal line represented by some dark dashes, with 

 a whitish patch beyond them at apex and a broad band before them 

 from vein 7 to inner margin, dentate outwards on veins 3, 4 ; a 

 slightly waved fine black terminal line. Hind wing white, the 

 costal and terminal areas broadly tinged with brown ; the veins 

 brownish ; the underside with brown discoidal point. 



Hah. Canada, Kenfrew Co., 1 d" , Orilla {Bush), 1 ^ type, Er. 

 Columbia, Vancouver I. {J. J. Walker)^ 3 S ; U.S.A., Massachusetts, 

 Beverly, 4 S , (^rote Coll., N. York, 4 d , i^ $ , Grote and Zellcr 

 Colls., Colorado. E.rp. 36-42 millim. 



E(i(j nearly spherical ; height -45 millim., diam. "57 millim. ; 

 colour dirty white with brown mottlings ; vertical lidges wavy, 

 converging towards micropyle, the horizontal ridges fine. (Slinger- 

 land, Eull. Cornell Univ. Agric. Exp. Stat. 1895, p. 577, pi. iv.) 



Larva, (lledescribed.) — Head 3'5 mm., shiniiig pale brown, 

 rather finely reticiilate in dark brown, curved band dark brown, the 

 one from the eye obscure. Cervical sliicld brown, slightly cornified, 

 cut by the pale dorsal line and whitish subdorsal line. Body brown, 

 finely mottled on a cream-coloured ground, skin somewhat thin and 

 shagreened. Dorsal space broadly pale, mottled, centered by the 

 faint pale dorsal line which is edged by a dusky shade that sends 

 out obscure expansions at the tubercles. Lateral space darkly 

 shaded, with traces of pale line. Substigmatal band broad, pale, 

 brown-mottled ; sub ventral space brown. Tubercles rather large 

 and cornified ; spiracles black ; anal plate brown. A general 

 feeder. — H. G, D. 



*G11. Feltia edentata. 



Feltia edentata, Smith, J. N.Y. Ent. Soc. x. p. 38 (1902). 



(S . Palpi fuscous at sides ; head fuscous, the frons reddish grey ; 

 tegulaj fuscous brown at base, with black medial line, the tips 

 brown and whitish ; patagia grey irrorated with brown ; thorax 

 brown, the metathoracic crest greyish. Fore wing fuscous brown, 

 suffused with reddish grey below costa, above median nervure, above 

 claviform and below it to subterminal line, on postmedial area ; the 

 veins with dark streaks ; subbasal and antemedial lines reddish 

 grey, obsolete except in submedian interspace; claviform long and 

 broad, almost filling the submedian interspace, fuscous defined by 

 black ; orbicular V-shaped, open above, reddish with grey aunulus ; 

 reniform narrow, oblong, rather wider above, erect, rufous with 

 reddish-grey annulus ; cell before and between the stigmata fuscous; 

 postmedial line only defined by the contrast between the dark 

 medial and grey postmedial areas; subterminal line defined by the 

 terminal area being narrowly dark except at apex; a terminal 

 series of small black lunules and a yellowish line at base of cilia. 

 Hind wing dirty yellowish white, the terminal area fuscous ; cilia 



