343 



■G09. Feltia olivia. 



Agrotis olivia, Morr. Proe. Bost. Se 

 Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. SO. 



N. H. x\iii. p. 238 (ISTH) ; Smith, 



Reddish clay-yellow. Fore wing- with ill-defined dark patch at 

 base; antemedial line obsolete towards costa, double, luiiulate; 

 clavifbrm short, defined by black ; orbicular and reniform yellowish 

 with white annuli, the latter constricted at middle ; the cell before 

 and between the stigmata black ; median nervure streaked with 

 white ; postmedial line obsolete ; subterminal line traceable, defined 

 on inr\er side by dentate black marks, the area beyond it dark with 

 an apical pale patch ; cilia dusky, with a yellowish line at base. 

 Hind wing pearly white, the veins and margins tinged with fuscous ; 

 the underside grey irrorated with blackish, a discoidal lunule. 



Hah. U.S.A., Utah. E.i'iJ. 39 millim. This species is unknown 

 to me. 



610. Feltia ducens. 



Agroth jaculifera yav., Giien. Noct. i. p. 262, pi. 5. f. 4 (1852). 

 Fdtia dtccens, Wlk. ix. 203 (185B) ; Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 81. 

 Feltia radiata, Harr. MS. ; Smith, List Lep. Bor. Am. p. 38. 

 Agrotis subgotJdca, Fitch, 1st & 2nd Eep. Ins. N. Y. p. 314, pi. 3. f. 1, nee 

 Harv. 



Head and tegulae brown slightly mixed with grey ; palpi blackish 

 at sides ; teguhie with black medial line : thorax grey mixed with 

 brown, the patagia with dark brown streak above and often flome 

 ferruginous red at extremity ; legs largely marked with black ; 

 abdomen brownish grey, the anal tuft tinged with rufous ; a sub- 

 lateral series of blackish spots. Eore wing brown, with fleshy-white 

 streaks on subcostal and median nervures and inner margin; the 

 subbasal line represented by an oblique white striga from costa and 



Fig. 66. — Feltia ducens, (^ . \. 



an inwardly oblique striga on a dark brown patch below the cell, 

 the antemedial line by a striga from costa and a line between 

 median nervure and vein 1 ; claviform defined by black and very 

 long, extending to beyond origin of vein 2; an oblique whitish 

 streak above it from antemedian line to near termen ; the orbicular 

 grey, V-shaped, open above, its lower edge whitish defined by 

 black ; reniform brownish, sometimes rufous, with white annnlus 

 defined bv black ; the veins of terminal area blackish on whitish 



