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slightly irrorated with fuscous : the subbasal Hue represented by a 

 few black scales below costa aud cell ; traces of an antemedial line 

 oblique from costa to submedian fold where it is angled ; orbicular and 

 reniform defined by blackish, the former rounded, open above ; the 

 postmedial line very indistinct, bent outwards below costa, excurved 

 to vein 4, then incurved ; the subterminal line only defined by 

 diffused blackish suffusion on inner side, curved; a fine pale line at 

 base of cilia. Hind wing pale fuscous brown ; the underside whitish, 

 the costal and terminal areas irrorated with brown, a diffused, curved 

 postmedial line. 



Hah. KuMAOiir, Ralam Yalley 12,000 feet (DatMe), 1 c? type. 

 Ea^i:). 36 raillim. 



Genus FELTIA. ^r 



Type. 



Feltia, Wlk. ix. 202 (1856) dtcce?is. 



Proboscis fully cTeveloped; palpi obliquely upturned, not reacbing vertex of 

 head, tbe 2nd joint fringed with long hair in front ; frons with vertical 

 ridge-like prominence ; tibice strongly spined, the mid and hind tibiaj with tufts 

 of hair on outer side from base. Fore wing short and broad, the apex rounded ; 

 veins 3 and 5 from near angle of cell ; 6 from upper angle; 9 from 10 anas- 

 tomosing with 8 to form the areola ; 11 from cell. Hind wing with veins 3 

 and 4 from angle of cell ; 5 obsolescent from below middle of diseocellnlars ; 

 6, 7 from upper angle ; male with the claspers simple, hooked. 



Sect. I. Antennaj of male with long branches ; the spines on fore tibite very 

 stout. 



A. Fore wing with the inner and terminal areas not reddish. 



a. Fore wing with the median nervure deflned by white 



streaiis glacliaria. 



b. Fore wing with the median nervure not defined by white 



streaks, 

 ff.^. Fore wing without flesh-coloured streaks in discal 



and submedian folds venerahilis. 



b^. Fore wing with flesh-coloured streaks in discal aud 



submedian folds milleri. 



B. Fore wing with the inner and terminal areas reddish circuindata. 



602. Feltia gladiaria. 



Agrotis gladiaria, Morr. Proc. Bost. Soc. N. H. xvii. p. 162 (1874) ; Smith, 



Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 82. 

 Agrotis morrisoniana, Eiiey, Proc. Bost. Soc. N. H. xvii. p. 286 (1874). 



S . Head and thorax purplish grey mixed with brown ; palpi black 

 except at tips ; tegulse and patagia edged Avith brown, the tegulee with 

 slight medial line ; tibiae and tarsi banded with black ; abdomen grey 

 irrorated with fuscous, the anal tuft tinged with fulvous ; a lateral 

 series of black spots. Fore wing pinkish ochreous, suffused with 

 trown and slate-grey in, below, and just beyond cell and on terminal 

 area ; the subbasal line represented by an oblique pale striga, defined 

 by black on inner side, from costa, and another from median nervure 

 to vein 1 ; the antemedial line pale defined by black, acutely angled 

 outwards below costa, then obsolescent to median nervure, below 



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