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fab. Mexico, Northern Sonora (Morrison). 
A very distinct species. 
7. Acontia apela, sp.n. (Tab. XXVIII. fig. 18.) 
Primaries yellowish-cream-colour, crossed beyond the middle by a much broken brown band, the band forming 
an irregular V-shaped mark (this being much more strongly defined in some specimens than in others) on . 
the costal margin, and widening before it reaches the inner margin, where it forms a dark brown patch, 
and with two minute black spots in the cell, and a submarginal row of black points extending from the 
apex nearly to the anal angle, the fringe brown and yellowish-cream-colour; secondaries brown, palest 
at the base, the fringe pale yellow: head, thorax, and abdomen yellowish-cream-colour ; the legs and the 
underside of the thorax and of the abdomen greyish-brown; the antennz dark brown. Expanse 1 inch. 
Hab. Mexico, Presidio (Forrer), Venta de Zopilote in Guerrero 2800 feet (H. H. 
Smith). 
This species varies considerably in colour, some specimens being much yellower than 
others. Mr. Smith met with it in the month of October. Our figure is taken from a 
Guerrero specimen. 
8. Acontia philomela, sp. n. (Tab. XXVIII. fig. 19.) 
Primaries greyish-black, mottled with white near the apex, and with three dusky white streaks on the costal 
margin beyond the middle; secondaries dusky brown, darkest at the apex and round the costal margin, 
the fringe yellowish-white: head, thorax, and abdomen dark greyish-brown; antenne black; legs 
greyish. Expanse 1 inch. 
Hab. Mexico, Venta de Zopilote in Guerrero 2800 feet (H. H. Smith). 
One specimen, captured in October 1888. This small dull-coloured species seems to 
come nearest A. pyralina, Walk., from Sierra Leone. 
9. Acontia phya, sp.n. (Tab. XXVIII. fig. 20.) 
Primaries brownish-black, mottled with darker brown, the base broadly banded with white, a large U-shaped 
white mark on the costal margin rather beyond the middle, and two small dark brown dots between the 
white markings; secondaries greyish-white, dusky from the apex to the anal angle: head and collar dark 
brown, the tegule and thorax white; abdomen pale brown, the anus greyish ; legs pale brown. Expanse 
2 inch. 
fab. Mexico, Cuernavaca in Morelos (H. H. Smith). 
One example only, captured in June 1888, This pretty little species is allied to 
A. redita, Feld. & Rogenh., but is altogether a smaller insect and very differently marked 
with white. 
10. Acontia valena, sp.n. (Tab. XXVIII. fig. 21.) 
Primaries dark brown, shading off to pale straw-colour at the apex and along the outer margin, with a small 
white spot close to the base on the costal margin, and beyond this at about the middle an elongate simi- 
larly-coloured patch ; secondaries greyish-white, almost hyaline near the base, the outer margin from the 
apex to the anal angle dusky brown, the fringe greyish: head and thorax dark brown ; the abdomen pale 
greyish-brown ; the antenne and legs dark brown. Expanse 1 inch. 
Hab. Mexico, Cordova (Rimeli); Guaremata, San Gerénimo (Champion). 
This species is quite distinct from all others of the genus yet described. The single 
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