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FELTIA. By Dr. M. Draudt. 
vcnerabilis. 
arida. 
circumdata. 
evanidalis. 
edentata. 
hudsoni. 
d uce ns. 
subgothica. 
herilis. 
pectinicor- 
nis. 
gravis. 
musa. 
vancouve- 
rensis. 
semiclarata. 
atha. 
Volubilisi 
F. venerabilis Wkr. (8 h) is a monotonously greyish-brown species with a very dark, brown costal 
half, or also dusted quite brown, often with a pinkish tint with darker striped veins and entirely extinct transverse 
stripes. From Canada and the United States to Texas and California. — f. arida Cockerell is the race from 
Colorado with a much lighter ground-colour and in the almost white hindwings, only faintly smoky on the 
veins and margin. 
F. circumdata Grt. (8 i) is easily recognizable by the broad, light yellowish-brown area of the proximal 
margin being confluent with the similarly coloured area of the distal margin; the transverse lines are indistinct. 
Described from New Mexico. 
F. evanidalis Grt. Forewing yellowish-white, dusted with reddish-brown and grey, with a white- 
striped subcostal, median and base of the inner-marginal vein; the cell and its surroundings darker brown; maculae 
yellowish-white, the ring-macula V-shaped and above open; the posterior transverse line is indistinctly whitish, 
proximally bordered by small black sagittae, distally by a lighter band extending to the black-spotted undulate 
line. Hindwing yellowish-white, at the margin brownish. Expanse of wings: 38 mm. California. 
F. edentata 8m. is dark brown, in the disc dusted with reddish-grey, with dark-striped veins and 
almost extinct transverse lines; the posterior line is only marked by the contrast between the darker median 
area and the grey postmedian area; coniform macula very long and broad, ring-macula V-shaped, above open, 
reniform macula narrow, reddish-above broader than beneath, both in the blackish-brown ground of the cell; 
black sagittae are absent in the marginal area. Hindwing yellowish-white, in the marginal area dark. Expanse 
of wings: 37 mm. Washington. 
F. hudsoni Srn. (9 b) is violettish-grey, suffused with a light brown, except the middle part of the 
costal margin, the proximal-marginal part and the space behind the postmedian line which is only recognizable 
by the contrast of the two colours and small black sagittae before it in the centre; coniform macula very long 
surrounded with black; ring-macula V-shaped, above open, grey; reniform macula ochreous, surrounded with 
black. Undulate line marked by small, black sagittae. Hindwing yellowish-white, at the margin brownish. 
From Canada. 
F. ducens Wkr. (= radiata Harr., subgothica Auct.) (8 i) is striped flesh-coloured subcostally on the 
median and at the proximal margin, otherwise marked very much like the preceding; above the very long coni¬ 
form macula a light stripe extends towards the anal angle. Hindwing whitish, at the margin brownish. Canada 
to Colorado. — The brownish larva being lighter on the dorsum lives on low plants. 
F. subgothica Harv. (= jaculifera Gn., tricosa Lint.) (8 i) differs from the preceding by the hindwings 
being darkened by a yellowish brown; the cell is filled up with black before, between and behind the maculae; 
before and on the grey undulate line a series of small black sagittae. Canada to Colorado. — Larva brownish 
on the dorsum lighter with broad, brown spots therein, laterally with a lighter line and a broader light band 
below it; it lives on low plants. 
F. herilis Grt. (8 k) differs from the very similar subgothica by the black sagittae being entirely absent 
before the undulate line. From Canada and the North Eastern States. -— Larva very much like that of the 
preceding, and living likewise polyphagous on low plants. 
F. pectinicornis 8m. (8 k) has the antennae with longer combs than herilis ; the white-striped veins 
are on both sides bordered with dark, above the origin of the median veins there are short black stripes; the 
maculae are white, surrounded with black and pupilled brown. The whitish hindwings are dusted with brownish. 
From Texas. 
F. gravis Grt. (= vapularis Grt.) (9 a) has a small, whitish-ringed ring-macula surrounded with black, 
which is distally extended into a point, grey dentate transverse lines, a black basal ray; behind the dentate 
grey undulate line, with black sagittae before it, the margin is darkened. Hindwing brownish-grey with white 
fringes. California. Perhaps the 4 following species are not distinct species, as there are scarcely any genital 
differences. 
F. musa 8m. is uniformly dusted bluish-grey on its chocolate ground, the thorax light grey; the 
transverse lines are single, the anterior line black, the posterior line finely dentate, brown, the area behind it 
uniformly grey without any trace of an undulate line or of sagittae; maculae like in gravis in a blackened ground 
of the cell. Hindwing uni-coloured brownish-grey. Described from New Foundland. 
F. vancouverensis Grt. (= hortulana Morr., agilis Grt.) (8 k) looks very much like gravis (9 a) from 
which it is easily discernible by the ferruginous head and by the lighter, reddish-grey inner-marginal area, the 
very dark costal-marginal area, and the much more contrasting markings. From Canada to California. Larva 
on a greenish ground watered with brown and yellowish-white, with a narrow light dorsal line; it lives on wild 
cherry-trees. — f. semiclarata Grt. has a still lighter whitish inner-marginal area much more contrasting with 
the dark costal margin. — f. atha Streck. has a longer coniform macula and a darker cell. — From Washington. 
F. volubilis Harv. (= stigmosa Morr.) (8 k) is a much darker, brown species with a darkened costal- 
marginal part with indistinct, black, dent ate transverse lines, rather indist inct maculae and black streaks behind 
