FELTIA. 349 



017. Feltia volubilis. (Plate LXVIIT. fig. 7.) 



Agroils volubilis, Harv. Bull. Buff. Soc. Nat. Sci. ii. p. 118 (1874) ; Smith, 



Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 84. 

 Agrotis sligmosa, Morr. Proc. Bost. Soc. N. H. xvii. p. 1G3 (1874). 



S . Head ochreous brown ; the palpi except at base and sides o£ 

 frons black ; thorax grey, teguL'e rufous at base and with a black 

 medial line ; legs blackish, with pale rings at the joints ; abdomen 

 grey tinged with brown, fore wing pale grey-brown to pale 

 ochreous brown, the costal area suffused with fuscous ; the subbasal 

 line absent; the antemedial line indistinct, black, waved, and 

 strongly dentate above inner margin; claviform narrow, defined by 

 black and continued to base as a streak ; orbicular and reniform 

 with greyish annuli defined by black, the former small with its outer 

 edge produced to a point, some black suff"asion in the cell between 

 the stigmata and beyond the reniform ; the postmedial line strongly 

 dentate, bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then 

 incurved ; the subterminal line represented by a series of whitish 

 and black dentate marks : a fuscous shade on termen below apex ; 

 a terminal series of black points. Hind wing whitish, the veins, 

 costal and terminal areas tinged with brown or wholly brown ; cilia 

 white, with a brown line at base or pale brownish ; the underside 

 with small discoidal spot and postmedial series of short streaks on 

 the veins sometimes connected by a line. 



5 . Fore wing more uniformly suffused with fuscous brown. 

 Hah. Canada ; U.S.A., N. & E. States, Massachusetts, Beverly, 

 1 2 , New York, 4 cJ , 5 $ , Grote Coll. type, Oregon, Portland, 

 California, 1 $ . Exp. 38 millim. 



618. Feltia pexa. (Plate LXYIII. fig. 8.) 



Agrotis pcxa. Berg, An. Soc. Argent, iv. p. 199 (1877). 

 Agrotis ivgnufii. Mab. Bull. Soc. Philom. (7)ix. p. 59(1885); id.Nouv. Arch. 

 Mus. Paris, (.3) i. p. 14(), pi, 10. f. 9. 



J . Head and thorax pale grey-brown mixed with black; abdomen 

 brownish grey irrorated with fuscous. Fore wing grey ; a black 

 patch below base of cell, with a curved white streak on it ; the 

 medial ])art of inner area sufl'used with fuscous and with a short 

 antemedial white streak on it ; claviform slightly defined by black, 

 and with a white streak in submcdian fold beyond its extremity ; 

 orbicular small, diamond-shaped, with brown centre and white or 

 grey annulus defined by black ; reniform white or brown with grey 

 annulus ; the cell before and between the stigmata and the area 

 between reniform and the almost obsolete postmedial line suffused 

 with black; the subterminal line represented by a series of whitish 

 points witli a blackish patch before it at costa, and wedge-shaped 

 black marks from vein 6 to inner margin ; a terminal series of black 

 points. Hind wing whitish, tlie veins and terminal half suffused 

 with fuscous; the underside white irrorated M'ith fuscous, a small 

 discoidal spot and diff'used dark subterminal patch between veins 7 

 and 3. 



