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shaded, with traces of a pa^e line. Substigmatal band broad, pale, 

 browii-mottk'd ; subventral space brown. Tubercles rather large 

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

 feeder.- H. G. D. 



G13. Feltia herilis. ( Plate LXVIII. fig. 3.) 



Agrotin jctcuUfera, var. B, Guen. Noct. i. p. 2fi2 (18.32). 

 Agrotis' herilis, Grote, Bull. Bull'. Soc. Nat. Sci. i. p. 99 (1873) ; Siuitli, Cat. 

 'Noct. N. Am. p. 82. 



Head pale brown, the sides of palpi and frons blackish ; tegulae 

 with black medial line, dark grey in front, pale brown behind ; 

 thorax purplish brown, the dorsal crest greyish at tips ; legs dark 

 brown, the tibia? and 1st joints of fore and mid tarsi whitish above, 

 the hind tarsi with Avhitish rings ; abdomen pale brown, the anal 

 tufts tinged with fulvous. Fore wing dark purplish fuscous ; the 

 subbasal line pale, defined by black on inner side, angled on median 

 nervure and below the cell, traversing a black patch ; the ante- 

 medial line pale defined by black lines, angled outwards below 

 costa, inwards on median nervure, then very oblique to above inner 

 margin, where it is angled outwards ; the subcostal nervure with 

 purpli.sh-grey streaks on each side of it; the median nervure 

 streaked with white ; the claviform a large triangular black patch, 

 with ochreous-white streak above it and along vein '2 to postmedial 

 line ; the orbicular V-shaped, open above, purplish grey with pale 

 lines on lower edges ; the reniform ochreous, its centre defined by 

 brown ; the cell before and between the stigmata black ; the post- 

 medial line minutely dentate, bent outwards below costa, excurved 

 to vein 4, then oblique ; tlie subterminal line indistinct, angled 

 outwards at vein 7 and middle. Hind wing fuscous brown, paler 

 towards base and inner margin ; the cilia with brown line through 

 them ; underside with slight discoidal lunule ; the costal area 

 irrorated with brown ; the terminal area brown to snbmedian fold. 

 llah. Canada, Renfrew Co., 9 S Grote Coll., Orilla (Bushe), 1 J, 

 1 2 ; Br. Columbia ; U.S.A., N. States E. of llocky Mountains, 

 N. York, 5 d , Massachusetts, Bufi'alo, 1 $, Alabama, 1 d, 1 $, 

 type. Eay. 36-44 millim. 



Larva, (lledescrihed). — Head 3-5 mm., shining pale brown, 

 rather finely reticulated in dark brown ; curved band dark brown, 

 the one from the eye obscure ; cervical shield brown, slightly 

 cornified, cut by the pale dorsal line only ; body brown, finely 

 mottled on a cream-coloured ground ; skin somewhat thin and 

 shagreened ; dorsal space broadly pale, filled with broad brown 

 segmental blotches touching its edges ; dorsal line obsolete ; lateral 

 space darkly shaded, with traces of a pale line ; substigmatal band 

 broad, pale, brown-mottled ; subventral space brown ; tubepcles 

 rather large and cornified ; spiracles black ; anal plate brown. 

 A general feeder. — H. G. D. 



