FELTIA. 345 



3'ellowish at base, with fuscous medial line and whitish tips ; the 

 underside whitish, the costal area witli dark irroration and apical 

 sufiusion. 



Hah. U.S.A., Washington, rullman. Exj). 37 millim. This 

 species is unknown to me, 



612. Feltia subgothica. (Plate LXVIII. fig. 2.) 



Noctua suhgothka, Haw. Lep. Brit. p. 224 (1810) ; Stepb. 111. Brit. Ent., 

 H'.ust. ii. p. 126, pi. 22. f. 3 ; Wood, Index Ent. p. 36, pi. 9. f. 149 ; 

 Pacjiard, Guide, p. S06, f. 238 ; Saund. Fruit Insects, p. 328, f. 339. 



Agrotis jaculifera, Guen. Noct. i. p. 262 (1852); Smith, Gat. Noct. N. Am. 

 p. 81. 



Agrotis tricosa, Lintner, Ent. Coiit. iii. p. 159 (1874). 



S . Sead and thorax purplish brown, slightly mixed with grey ; 

 tegulte with black medial line : thorax ochreous or greyish brown ; 

 legs black irrorated with grey ; abdomen ochreous, irrorated with 

 black especially towards extremity, the anal tuft tinged with fulvous. 

 Fore wing purj^lish fuscous ; fiue pinkish-Avhite streaks on each 

 side of subcostal uervure and on median nervure; the subbasal line 

 represented by a pale brownish striga from costa and an oblique 

 striga below the cell where it crosses a black patch, the antemedial 

 line by an outwardly oblique striga from median nervure near the 

 subbasal line to vein 1 ; claviform elongate, blackish, with deep 

 black outline ; orbicular V-shaped, greyish, open above, and with a 

 pale line below ; reniform brownish with grey annulus, its centre 

 defined by brown, the cell before and between the stigmata and the 

 area between the reniform and postmedial line black ; the area 

 from above and beyond the claviform to near tornus pale pinkish 

 brown; the postmedial line indistinct, minutely dentate^ bent 

 outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then oblique, and with a 

 series of black dashes on its inner side beyond the cell ; the sub- 

 terminal line grey, with some greyish suffusion before it, angled 

 outwards at veins 6, 4, and 3, and with a series of black dashes 

 before and on it ; a fine waved black terminal line. Hind wing 

 ochreous whitish, tinged with brown ; the veins and terminal area 

 fuscous brown ; cilia ochreous, with fuscous line near base ; the 

 i;ndorside with the costal and terminal areas irrorated with brown ; 

 a dark apical patch and discoidal point, 



5 . Hind wing often uniform fuscous brown. 



Hah. Canada, Renfrew Co., 3 c? , 2 $ , Orilla (Bush), 3 c? ; 

 U.S.A., N. States, 1 J type, X. York, 4 c?, 4 $ , type tricosa, 

 Texas, Colorado. £iy. 42-46 millim. The British localities of 

 the older authors for this species are erroneous. 



Larva. (Eedescribed.) — Head 3-5 mm., shining pale brown, 

 rather finely reticulate in dark brown, curved band dark brown, the 

 one from the eye obscure. Cervical shield brown, slightly cornificd, 

 cut by the pale dorsal line only. Body brown, finely mottled on a 

 cream-coloured ground, skin somewhat thin and shagreened. Dorsal 

 space broadly pale, filled with broad brown segmental blotches 

 touching the edge; dorsal line obsolete. Lateral space darkly 



