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median, at the lower angle of cell, 3 and 4 branching about one- 

 third to one-half beyond the end of the cell. 



Acontia sedata Hy. Edwards. 



1881, Hy. Edw., Papilio, i, 23, Tarache. 



1893, Smith, Bull. 44, U. S. Nat. Mus., 300, Acontia. 



Head and thorax gray, a few white scales giving a somewhat mottled appear- 

 ance. Abdomen dull smoky. Primaries leaden gray, mottled with yellowish 

 white in the basal space. A quadrate white costal patch, in which is the distinct 

 black, punctiform orbicular. A smaller, white, also quadrate costal spot before 

 the apex. T. a. line geminate, gray, white filled, obscure, outwardly oblique, a 

 little outward tooth at its middle. A fragmentary blackish median shade is 

 traceable in the lower part of wing. T. p. line broken, very irregularly marked, 

 blackish opposite the cell, whitisii toward inner margin, where a somewhat 

 quadrate rusty brown patch fills the space between t. p. and s. t. lines. S. t. line 

 whitish, broken, very irregular, preceded by black scales which are unevenly 

 distributed. A series of black terminal marks. Reniform gray filled or only 

 outlined in gray. Fringes a little white mottled at the middle. Secondaries 

 smoky, fringes a very little paler. Beneath, costal region of primaries yellowish, 

 cut with smoky at apical third, else smoky. Secondaries, disc yellowish, with a 

 smoky outer border; at outer third of costa an oblique bar extends outwardly 

 nearly to the outer band, where it changes to a narrow, smoky line, running 

 parallel to the outer margtn. A smoky discal lunule. 



Expands 20-23 mm. = .80-. 92 inches. 



Hab. — Arizona; Texas. 



Three female specimens only, none of them in the best possible 

 condition and all different. I have not seen many of these ; but one 

 of my examples is directly compared with the type. The primaries 

 are rather narrow. Secondaries have vein 5 decidedly weaker than 

 the other, from a spur at some distance from the median ; 3 and 4 

 separating about one-third from end of cell. Though so nearly re- 

 sembling gonella in type of maculation, especially on the under 

 side, the origin of vein 5 is remarkably dissimilar. 



AvouHia nuicola n. sp. 



Head, collar and disc of thorax dull gray; patagite white. Abdomen with a 

 yellowish tinge. Primaries yellowish white to the middle of the median space, 

 and beyond that whitish above the median vein to the middle of the s. t. space, 

 where it is abruptly and squarely terminated. The basal line is obscurely gray 

 marked. T. a. line marked by a broad, band-like patch on the costa to median 

 vein, then it suddenly becomes thi'ead like and runs inwardly oblique, a greater 

 or less distance toward the inner margin. T. p. line marked by an olivaceous 

 costal patch, which may or may not break up over the reniform, marked by 

 fragmentary black dots opposite the cell, deeply incurved and marked with 

 black interspaceal spots below the cell. Between the middle of the median 

 space and the s. t. line, and from the median vein to inner margin, is a dull gray 

 shading, whi(^h may extend obliquely through the s. t. space to the apex, or may 



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