te 



348 NOCTuiDj!:. 



Ab. 1. vcqndaris. Thorax and fore wing suffused with fuscous 

 black. 



J/ah. U.S.A., California, Mendocino, 3^,1 $ , typo and type 

 vcqndaris. Exji. 32-30 millim, 



GIG. Feltia vancouverensis. (Plate LXVIII. fig. G.) 



Agroiis vancouverensis, Grote, Bull. Buff. Soc. Nat. Sci. i. p. lo4, pi. 4. 



■ f. 4 (1873) ; Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 83. 

 Agrotis liortiJana, Morr. Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phil. 1875, p. 430. 

 Agrofis semiclamta, Grote, Can. Ent. xiii. p. 132 (1881) ; id. 111. Essay, 52, 



pi. i. f. 0. 

 Agrotis agilis, Grote, Can. Ent. xx.p. 128 (1888). 



Head ferruginous, the palpi except at tips, sides of frons, and 

 antennae blackish ; tcgulse with the basal half black with rufou8 

 band, the tips grey edged with ferruginous ; thorax grey, the vertex 

 and edges of patagia ferruginous ; pectus brown ; legs blackish, with 

 Avhite rings at the joints; abdomen grey-brown, more or less strongly 

 tinged with ferruginous at sides and extremity. Fore wing purplish 

 grey ; the costal area suffused with black or with vinous red ; 

 subbasal line black, defined by white on outer side, waved and 

 extending to submedian fold ; the antemedial line dentate, defined 

 by white on inner side on the dark costal area ; the claviform 

 elongate, black or brown defined by black, and continued to base as 

 a streak; orbicular and reniform brown, with grey annuli defined 

 by black, the former rather small and elliptical or with its outer 

 edge produced to a point; the medial shade from loAver angle of cell 

 to inner margin brown or blackish ; the postmedial line strongly 

 dentate, bent outwards below costa and incurved in sxibmedian 

 interspace ; the subterminal line grey, angled outwards below costa 

 and dentate at veins 4, 3, and with a series of wedge-shaped brown 

 marks on its inner side ; a terminal series of black points. Hind 

 wing fuscous brown, the interspaces of discal area sometimes 

 whitish; cilia whitish, with brow^n line at base; underside with 

 the costal area irrorated Avith brown ; a discoidal spot ; a sinuous 

 postmedial and traces of a subterminal line. 



Huh. Canada, Vancouver I. (J. J. Walk-er), 1 S ; U.S.A., 

 Washington Terr., 2 d' , 3 5 , type seniiclaraia, Grote Coll., Oregon, 

 Portland, Colorado, Utah, California. Exp. 40 millim. 



Larva. Dyar, Proc. Ent. Soc. Wash. iv. p. 317 (1899). 



Head 3'G mm., pale, reticulate, the curved vertical dark band 

 fiiint below ; ocellar line not strongly marked. Brown and cream 

 colour, mottled on a greenish ground that appears subventrally ; 

 cervical shield grey, not well cornified. Lines all obsolete except 

 the narrow pale dorsal one, which is moderately distinct on the 

 anterior portion o£ the body. The brown mottlings are heavier 

 dorsally and above the position of the subdorsal line, enclosing a 

 pale space that widens in the incisures ; spiracles black. Feeds on 

 wild cherry. — H. G. D. 



