354 noctviu.t:. 



edge produced to nearly or quite join the reniform ; the postmcdial 

 line indistinct, highly dentate, Ijent outwards below costa and 

 oblique below vein 4 ; a subterminal series of pale dentate marks 

 with black beyond those above veins 4, 5, and 7. Hind wing 

 semihyaline white, the veins and costa tinged with brown. 



2 with the ground-colour greyer. 



Bah. U.S.A., 1 d" , 2 $ type, N. York, N. Jersey, Alabama, 1 $ , 

 Florida, S. & W. States, California ; Cdha ; Hami {Tweedie), 1 S ; 

 Bahamas, Nassau {Bonhote), 1 d" ; Mexico, Jalapa {TrvjUlo), 2 J? 

 3 $ , Durango {Becl-er), 1 $ , Presidio {Forrer), 1 d , Mexico city 

 (Godman) 1 c? , (Hoege) 1 5, Coatepec {Bi-ool-}, 1 5, Patycuaro 

 (Godman), 1 J : Costa IIica, IrazAi (diogers), 1 $ , Candelaria Mts. 

 ( Underivcod), 1 S , Godman-Salvin Coll. ; Venezuela, 2^,1$, type 

 consueta ] Brazil, typo f 5 ws/mio^a, in Coll. Oberthur ; Akgen- 

 TINA, Goya (Perrins), 1 cJ ; Falkland Is. {VaUeiiiin), 5 J , 4 $. 

 J'J.rp. 44 millim. 



Larva. Eiley, Rep. Nox. Ins. 1885, p. 292, pi 2. P. 3. 



(lledescribed.) Head 3-5 millim., pale brown, pale reticulate, 

 curved vertical band dark brown, not angled inward. Cervical 

 shield brown, cut by pale dorsal line and traces of a subdorsal one. 

 Skin rather thin, smooth. Dorsal space broadly pale, brownish 

 shaded centrally, cut by the pale dorsal line faintly. Lateral space 

 brown above next the white edge of the dorsal space, becoming 

 translucent below, the faint lateral line and lu'oad substigmatal 

 band nearly lost, pale. Tubercles large, light brown, cornified ; 

 spirades black. 



A general feeder. — H. G. D. 



627. Feltia annexa. (Plate LXVIIT. fig. 10.) 



Agrotis anncra. Treit. Sc-bmett. Eur. v. p. In4 (1825); Stoph. 111. Erit. 



'Ent., Haust. ii. p. 117, pi. 22. t'. 2; Smith, Cat. Jv^oct N. Am p. 84. 

 Jc/ro/is antejjosita, Guen. Kuct. i. p. 278 (1852); Druce, Biol. Ceutr.-Ain., 



"Het. i. p. 283. 

 Kocfua lutescens, Blanch. Gay's Chile. Zool. vii. p. 76 (1852). 

 Aqrotis dccernevs, Wlk. x. 333 (1856). 



Xi/Una lutea, Druce, Biol. Centr.-Am., Htt. i. p. 297, pi. xxviii. f. 2(1889). 

 Ayrotls intcrposlta, Mssn. Siiibel's Eeise, p. 142, pi. vi. f. 19 (1890). 



cJ . Head and thorax red-brown slightly mixed with fuscous; 

 tegulte with slight black medial line ; legs black and brown ; abdo- 

 men pale red-brown, the ventral surface whitish. Fore wing pale 

 red-brown, with some fuscous suffusion below base of cell and on 

 costal area before apex; an indistinct double, waved, black subbasal 

 line from costa to vein 1 ; the antemedial line double, very strongly 

 dentate outwards below costa, in cell and above inner margin, and 

 angled outwards in submedian fold; the claviform defined by black, 

 narrow and elongate ; the orbicular and reniform small, defined 

 by black, the former oblique elliptical, open above, and with a 

 black streak in the cell between it and the reniform : the postmedial 

 line indistinct, strongly dentate, bent outwards below costa, and 

 oblique below vein 4 ; the subterminal line represented by a series 



