FELTTA. 339 



type ; IJ.S.A., Kew York, 2 c? , 2 $ , Grote Coll., 1 J , 1 ? , Erie Co. 

 {Grote), Texas, Colorado, California (W(dsi)igham), 2 c? • Exp. 

 42 millim. 



*604. Feltia milleri. (Plate LXVII. fig. 31.) 



Affwfis milleri, Grote, Bull. Buff. Soc. Nat. Sci. iii. p. 78, pi. 4. f. 4 (1875) ; 

 Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 87. 



c? . Head and thorax mixed grey and black, patagia with pale 

 flesh-coloured upper edge ; abdomen grey and fuscous mixed. Fore 

 wing grey, thickly irrorated with black ; pale flesh-coloured streaks 

 in submedian fold aud in discal fold beyond the reniform ; a slight 

 black streak in base of cell ; the subbasal line represented by a 

 black spot on costa ; antemedial line black, nearly straight from 

 costa to vein 1, then strongly bent outwards ; claviform defined by 

 black above ; orbicular and reniform grey irrorated and defined by 

 black, the former round ; a dentate black postmedial line, produced 

 to short streaks on the veins, slightly incurved from below costa to 

 vein 4 and confluent with outer edge of reniform, then oblique ; an 

 irregular black subterminal line, strongly angled outwards at vein 7, 

 excurved and dentate at middle ; cilia chequered white and blackish. 

 Hind wing fuscous brown ; the cilia white, with brownish line 

 through them ; underside grey thickly irrorated with black ; a slight 

 discoidal spot and diffused dentate postmedial line. 



Bab. U.S.A., California, Sierra IS'evada, in Coll. Schaus. Ed'2^. 

 38 millim. 



*605. Feltia circumdata. (Plate LXIX. fig. 14.) 



Agrotis circumdata, Grote, A. M. N. H. (5) xi. p. 53 (1883) ; Smith, Cat. 

 Noct. N. Am. p. 82. 



Fuscous black-brown ; antenna3 yellow ; abdomen brownish 

 fuscous. Fore wing with broad yellowish-brown fascia on inner 

 margin confluent with the yellowish-brown terminal area ; lines 

 indistinct, double ; antemedial line strongly angulate ; orbicular 

 and reniform yellowish brown ; postmedial line lunulate, sinuous. 

 Hind wing fuscous, with the cilia reddish or purplish ; the under- 

 side irrorated with reddish, a dark discoidal spot and postmedial 

 line. 



Hah. U.S.A., New Mexico. Ea-p. 31-34 millim. This species 

 is unknown to me ; figured from a drawing from type in Brooklyn 

 Inst. Arts and Sci. 



Sect. II. AntenniB of male bipectiuate, with short branches ending in fascicles 

 of cilia. 



A. Fore wing with the orbicular stigma V-shaped, open 



above. 



a. Fore wing with dark streaks defining the white sub- 



costal and median nervures pectinicor'nis, 



b. Fore wing without dark streaks defining the white sub- 



costal and median nervures evanidalis. 



B. Fore wing with the orbicular stigma small, elliptical ... robustior. 



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