FELTIA. 347 



614. Feltia honesta. (Plate LXVIII. fig. 4.) 



Agrotis honesta, Staud. Iris, v. p. 354, pi. 3. f. 3 (1892) ; id. Cat. Lep. pal. 

 p. 139. 



(5 . Head and thorax dark brown mixed with bluish grey ; 

 abdomen ochreous brown. Pore wing grey, largely suffused and 

 irrorated with dark brown ; the median nervnre streaked with 

 Avhite, the subcostal nervure and vein 1 slightly with grey towards 

 base; the subbasal line curved from costa to vein 1, grey; the 

 antemedial Hue grey, oblique, slightly waved and strongly angled 

 outwards above inner margin ; the area below base of cell black- 

 brown, also the claviform, which is ill-defined below and with a pale 

 streak beyond it ; orbicular and reniform greyish, with whitish 

 annuli defined by black, the former V-shaped, open above, the cell 

 before and between them dark brown ; the postmedial line black, 

 defined by grey on outer side, minutely waved, bent outwards 

 below costa, excurved to vein 4, then very obliqne ; subterminal 

 line indistinct, grey, very slightly angled outwards at vein 7 and 

 excurved at middle, the area beyond it and before it towards costa 

 tinged with fuscous. Hind wing fuscous brown, with a slight 

 ochreous tinge towards base ; the cilia pale ; the underside with 

 dark discoidal lunule, curved postmedial line, and traces of diffused 

 subterminal line. 



Hah. Mois'GOLiA, Urga, 1 c? ; E. Sibekia, Iventei. Exp. 38 

 miliim. 



615. Feltia gravis. (Plato LXYIII. fig. 5.) 



Agrotis gravis, Grote, Bull. Buff. Soc. Nat. Sci. ii. p. 155 (1874) ; Smith, 



Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 83. 

 Agrotis vapularis, Grote, Bull. Buff. Soc. Nat. Sci. iii. p. 81 (1876). 



Head and tegulee brown mixed with purplish grey, the tegulas 

 with black medial line ; thorax purplish grey ; the tibise and tarsi 

 blackish, with grey rings ; abdomen grey-brown. Fore wing 

 purplish grey suffused with brown, especially on costal area and in 

 cell ; the sulDbasal line grey, sinuous, with some black on its inner 

 edge and extending from costa to submedian fold ; a black streak 

 beiow base of cell ; the antemedial line indistinct, grey, sinuous ; 

 claviform elongate, brown defined by black ; orbicular small, brown, 

 with whitish annulus defined by black, its uf^pcr edge produced to 

 a point on outer side ; reuiform with whitish on inner and outer 

 edges, interruptedly defined by black and with its inner edge some- 

 what produced inwards on median nervure; the postmedial line 

 strongly dentate, bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, 

 then oblique ; the subterminal line grey, strongly dentate below 

 costa and at middle, with a series of dentate black marks on its 

 inner side at middle, the area beyond it darker; cilia pale, with 

 brown lines through them. Hind wing fuscous brown, the inter- 

 spaces of discal area whitish ; cilia Avhite, with a brown line at base ; 

 underside whitish, with the costal and terminal areas strongly 

 irrorated with brown ; a black discoidal lunule. 



