. Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths. 340 NOCTUID.¥^. 606. Feltia pectinicornis. (Plate LXVIT. fig. 32.) Feltinpcctiiiicornls, Smith, Bull. Nat. Mus. 08. no. 114 (1890); id. Cat. A'oct. N. Am. p. 82. S . Head and thorax pale grey-brown mixed with black; palpi blackish at sides except at extremity ; frons with black bar above it; tegulae with black medial line and the tips blackisb ; patagia with black line above ; tibi;e and tarsi with pale rings ; abdomen brownish grey. Fore wing grey suffused with pale brown ; the subcostal and medial uervures defi
. Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths. 340 NOCTUID.¥^. 606. Feltia pectinicornis. (Plate LXVIT. fig. 32.) Feltinpcctiiiicornls, Smith, Bull. Nat. Mus. 08. no. 114 (1890); id. Cat. A'oct. N. Am. p. 82. S . Head and thorax pale grey-brown mixed with black; palpi blackish at sides except at extremity ; frons with black bar above it; tegulae with black medial line and the tips blackisb ; patagia with black line above ; tibi;e and tarsi with pale rings ; abdomen brownish grey. Fore wing grey suffused with pale brown ; the subcostal and medial uervures defined by fine white streaks; the base of submedian interspace blackish ; the subbasal line excurved, white defined by black on inner side and ending at vein 1 ; the antemedial line whitish defined on each side by blackish, angled outwards on subcostal nervure, inwards on median nervure, then oblique and ending at vein 1 ; claviform elongate, blackish defined by deep black ; orbicular and reniform white defined by black, their centres by brown, the former V-shaped, open above, the cell before and between them and beyond reniform blackish ; short black streaks above bases of veins 2 and 3 ; the postmedial line pale defined by fuscous stria3 on each side of it, minutely waved, bent outwards below costa to just beyond reniform and incurved below vein 4; the subterminal line indistinct, somewhat dentate, angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at middle, pale defined by short black streaks before it, above vein 7, and at middle and beyond it in the interspaces ; some pale points on costa towards apex. Hind wing whitish suff'used with fuscous, except towards inner margin ; cilia while; the underside, with the costal and terminal areas, irrorated and slightly suffused with fuscous brown. Hab. , Texas, 2 6 . Exp. 40 millira. 607. Feltia evanidalis. Agrotis evanidalis, Grote, Bull. Geol. Surv. iv. p. 172 (1878); Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Mn. p. 82. S. Head and thorax ochreous white, slig
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