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gill to the median vein. Basal line feebly indicated on the costa. T. a. line 

 olive-gray or luteous, outcurved or angulated, single, usually complete and some- 

 times a little expanded on the inner margin. The basal space may be more or 

 less gray clouded. Median shade line luteous or olivaceous on costa, outwardly 

 oblique to the median vein, there angulated and inward to inner margin within 

 the middle, there brown or black, edging the dusky patch already limited. Be- 

 yond this shade the wing in one specimen is all obscured with olivaceous. T. p. 

 line luteous, narrow, single, outcurved over the cell, rather evenly incurved 

 below. Preceding this line the quadrate patch on inner margin tends to a violet 

 shading. The s. t. space is shaded with luteous or olivaceous. S. t. line pale, 

 irregular, close to outer margin an outward tooth cutting the terminal space 

 below the apex. A broken black terminal line preceded by a paler line. Fringes 

 gray or brown, cut with yellowish at apex and about middle. Orbicular a small 

 black dot. Reniform moderate in size, a gray or brown ring with a pale centre. 

 Secondaries white or with a faint smoky tinge, and with a very narrow outer 

 border. Beneath, primaries yellowish, with disc more or less smoky ; secondaries 

 white or faintly yellow tinged, immaculate. 

 Expands 18-21 mm. = .72-.84 inches. 



i/a6.— Denver, Colorado, August 11th (Oslar); Hot Springs, 

 New Mexico, 7000 ft. (Hulst) ; Texas in April. 



Five males and three females. Of these, one pair from Colorado 

 is fresh and in good condition ; the others ai'e flown and more or less 

 imperfect, so that I hesitated at first to consider them identical. 

 There is no reasonable doubt, however, though it may be that Texan 

 examples are on the whole a little paler than those from Colorado. 

 The single New Mexican example is intermediate. The variation 

 is in the intensity of the dusky shading, and fresh examples will 

 probably seem darker because the dark scales overlay the yellow or 

 creamy base. 



The primaries are rather narrow and elongate, subparallel. In the 

 secondaries, vein 5 is scarcely more than a mere fold, from the cross- 

 vein well removed from the median. It is therefore a good trifid. 

 Veins 3 and 4 do not separate until near or even beyond the middle 

 of their course. 



Aconlia neoinexioaiia n. sp. 



Head and thorax white. Primaries creamy white, broken mainly by a gray 

 shade curving from inner margin beyond the middle to the apex, interrupted 

 above the cell. A yellow t. a. line is faintly indicated. Median shade yellow, 

 outwardly oblique from the costa to the median vein, there bent and inwardly 

 oblique to the inner margin, forming the inner border of the gray shade. This 

 shade on the inner margin extends to the s. t. line, but narrows until, just l)el()W 

 the reniform, it does not extend beyond the t. p. line. Beyond the reniform is a 

 gray and yellow patch marking the t. p. line, and beyond this a paler gray shade 

 extends to the apex. T. p. line through the dark portion is narrow, irregular, 



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