74 ■ JOHN B. SMITH. 



paler toward baso. Beneath, primaries yellowish, with the niarkinjis of upper 

 side obscurely duplicated ; secondaries whitish, with a feeble discal lunule. 

 Expands 21-23 mm. = .84-. 92 inches. 



Hah. — Gleuwood Springs, Colorado, June and July (Barnes) ; 

 Catalina Springs, Arizona, April 7th and 15th (Schwarz) ; Argus 

 Mountains, Arizona, April (Koebele). 



Ten males and two females, mostly in good condition. There is 

 very little variation The amount of gray shading in the basal 

 space differs, and the ante apical white patch on the costa may or 

 may not be completely cut off; usually it is not. But these differ- 

 ences do not change the characteristic appearance of this, one of 

 the most distinct species in the genus. 



The primaries are trigonate and rather short. Secondaries with 

 5 distinctly less developed than the others, from a shf>rt spur from 

 the median. Veins 8 and 4 vary in their point of furcation from 

 near the end of the cell to beyond one-third to the outer margin. 



Acontia coqiiillettii n. sp. 



Head, thorax and abdomen white, with a slight creamy tinge. Primaries 

 creamy white from base to near the t. p. line on inner margin, and almost to s. t. 

 line on the costa. T. a. line marked by geminate gray costal clouds and by a 

 gray blotch in the cell. Median shade marked by a gray costal blotch. T. p. 

 line obsolete, except through the dusky space below vein 3 and there whitish, 

 linear, denticulate. This dusky shade extends along the inner margin a little 

 before the t. p. line to the s. t. line, then upward, rather abruptly rounded off at 

 about vein 3. A yellow shading, a little re-inforced by a gray patch, connects 

 this through s. t. space with the dark apical patch. S. t. line narrow, thread like 

 and whitish through apical patch, where it is margined and emphasized by black 

 and metallic-blue scales, then lost in the pale terminal space. Terminal space 

 gray mottled. A gray, preceded by a yellowish terminal line. Fringes creamy 

 white, with a gray interline above the middle. Orbicular wanting* Reniform 

 a yellow, oval spot, which is not outlined and not relieved. Secondaries smoky 

 or blackish, with white fringes. Beneath, primaries blackish, with an ante-api- 

 cal yellowish blotch and whitish fringes. Secondaries whitish at base, blackish 

 exteriorly. An outer smoky line is indicated on the costa. 



Expands 25 mm. = 1. inch. 



Hab. — Los Angeles Co,, California (Coquillett). 



A single female example only, lacking part of the abdomen. 

 The blackish secondaries and practical lack of the ordinary spots 

 make this an easily distinguishable form. The primaries are like 

 those of candefucta in form, and, indeed, resemble it in general 

 pattern of macuhition. Tiie .secondaries have vein 5 nearly as 

 strong as the others, arising from a spur from the median ; 3 and 4 

 branched at or verv little bevond the end of the cell. 



