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shaded, with traces of a pale Hue. Siibstigmatal band broad, pale, 

 brown-mottled ; subventral space brown. Tubercles rather large 

 and cornified ; spiracles black; anal plate brown. A general 

 feeder.— H. G. D. 



613. Feltia herilis. (Plate LXVIII. fig. 3.) 



Agrotis jacuUfera, var. B, Guen. Noct. i. p. 202 (1852). 

 Agrotis herilis, Grote, Bull. Buff. See. Nat. Sci. i. p. 99 (1873) ; Saiitli, Cat. 

 Noct. K Am. p. 82. 



Head pale brown, the sides of palpi and frons blackish ; tegulse 

 with black medial line, dark grey in front, pale brown behind ; 

 thorax purplisb brown, the dorsal crest greyish at tips ; legs dark 

 brown, the tibife and 1st joints of fore and mid tarsi whitish above, 

 the hind tarsi with whitish rings ; abdomen pale brown, the anal 

 tufts tinged with fulvous. Fore wing dark purplish fuscous ; the 

 subbasal line pale, defined by black on inner side, angled on median 

 nervure and below the cell, traversing a black patch ; the ante- 

 medial line pale defined by black lines, angled outwards below 

 costa, inwards on median nervure, then very oblique to above inner 

 margin, where it is angled outwards ; the subcostal nervure with 

 purplish-grey streaks on each side of it; the median nervure 

 streaked with white ; the claviform a large triangular black patch, 

 with ochreous-white streak abos^e it and along vein 2 to postmedial 

 line ; the orbicular V-shaped, open above, purplish grey with pale 

 lines on lower edges ; the reniform ochreous, its centre defined by 

 brown ; the cell before and between the stigmata black ; the post- 

 medial line minutely dentate, bent outwards below costa, excurved 

 to vein 4, then oblique ; the subterminal line indistinct, angled 

 outwards at vein 7 and middle. Hind wing fuscous brown, paler 

 towards base and inner margin ; the cilia with brown line through 

 them : underside with slight discoidal lunule ; the costal area 

 irrorated with brown ; the terminal area brown to submediau fold. 



Hah. Canada, Eenfrew Co., 9 S Grote Coll., Orilla {Bitshe), 1 ,^ , 

 1 2 ; Bk- Columbia; U.S.A., N. States E. of Eocky Mountains, 

 N. York, 5 d , Massachusetts, Buftalo, 1 $, Alabama, 1 (S , 1 $, 

 type. Kvjy. 36-44 millim. 



Larva. (Ecdescribed). — Head 3"5 mm., shining pale brown, 

 rather finely reticulated in dark brown ; curved band dark brown, 

 the one from the eye obscure ; cervical shield brown, slightly 

 cornified, 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 its edges ; dorsal line obsolete ; lateral 

 space darkly shaded, with traces of a pale line ; substigmatal band 

 broad, pale, brown-mottled ; subventral space brown ; tubercles 

 rather large and cornified ; spiracles black ; anal plate brown. 

 A general feeder. — H. G. D. 



