356 NOCTDICB. 



small dentate white marks in the interspaces. Hind wing semihya- 

 line white, the veins, costal area, and termen tinged with brown. 



Hah. Argentina, Goya (Perrins), 2 § , Buenos Ayres (Schimpfer), 

 2 (S type. Kvjy. 40 millim. 



629. Peltia experta. (Plate LXVIII. fig. 18.) 



Laphygma expert a, Wlk. Char. Undescr. Het. p. 30 (1869). 

 Laphygma innoiabilis, Wlk. Char. Undescr. Het. p. 31 (1869). 



cJ . Head and thorax grey irrorated with brown ; abdomen 

 whitish, slightly tinged with brown, the anal tuft with ochreous. 

 Fore wing grey, tinged with ochreous brown and irrorated with 

 fuscous ; the subbasal line represented by indistinct grey and fuscous 

 strigse from costa and median uervure ; an indistinct double, waved, 

 autemedial line sharply angled outwards above inner margin ; clavi- 

 form small, obscurely defined by fuscous ; orbicular and reniform 

 with fuscous centres and grey annuli defined by black, the former 

 elliptical or pointed at extremities ; an indistinct oblique waved 

 medial line from lower angle of cell to inner margin ; the postmedial 

 line dentate and produced to points on the • veins, bent outwards 

 below costa, excurvod to vein 4, then incurved ; the subterminal 

 line represented by a series of small more or less indistinct dentate 

 pale and fuscous marks in the interspaces : a terminal series of 

 black points. Hind wing semihyaline white, the underside with 

 the costal area slightly irrorated with brown. 



§ . Hind wing with the marginal areas tinged with brown. 



Hah. Peeij, Callao, 5^,3$, type. E.vp. 40-46 millim. 



Sect. IV. Antenna of male with fasciculate cilia. 



630. Feltia clerica. (Plate LXVIII. fig. 19.) 



Agrotis clerica, Butl. Trans Ent. Soc. 1882, p. 129. 



Agrotis carbouifera, Mab. Bull. Soc. Philoui. (7) ix. p. 60 (1885); id. Miss. 



Sci. Cap Horn, p. 16, pi. ii. f. 3. 

 Agrotis punta-arenw. Stand. Hamburg. Magalhaens. iv. p. TjS (1899). 



S . Head and thorax black, extremity of palpi and dorsal crests 

 ochreous or tipped with grey ; fore tibiae brownish, the tarsi with 

 pale rings, the hair of pectus grey-tipped ; abdomen blackish 

 irrorated with grey, greyish at base. Fore wing fuscous black, the 

 basal and terminal areas sometimes slightly irrorated with ochreous ; 

 an indistinct double, waved, subbasal line from costa to submedian 

 fold sometimes filled in with ochreous; a waved antemedial line 

 sometimes defined by ochreous on inner side; claviform more or 

 less distinctly defined by black ; orbicular and reniform defined by 

 black and a few ochreous scales, the former round ; the postmedial 

 line dentate, sometimes slightly defined by ochreous on outer side, 

 bent outwards below costa, slightly angled inwards in discal fold 

 and incurved below vein 4 ; the subterminal line represented by a 

 aeries of sma^ll obacure dentate black marks, sometimes with slight 



