66 JOHN B. SMITH. 



Tliree males and two females, all in fair condition. No two are 

 quite alike, yet all are so similar that their identity is without ques- 

 tion. The range of variation has been practically discussed in the 

 description, and consists chiefly in the relative amounts of white 

 and gray. The primaries are elongate and comparatively a little 

 narrowed. Secondaries with vein 5 nearly as strong as the others, 

 arising out of the median at the end of the cell ; 3 and 4 dividing 

 nearly half way to the outer margin. 



.4coiitia gonella Strecker. 



1898, Strck., Le]). Rhop. et. Het., Suppl. 1, p. 11, Acontia. 



Head white and gray mottled. C!ollar white inferioily. Thorax else gray. 

 Abdomen dirty white or yellowish. Primaries, upper half of hasal space white, 

 lower half olivaceous gray or brown, the division not accurate, sometimes more 

 white, sometimes more gray. T. a. line in the form of a broad gray band, out- 

 wardly angulated at the middle, sometimes marked on the costa only, and then 

 the basal white is connected with the white of the median space. Median space 

 all white above the median vein, below that point, to the t. p. line, is a broad, 

 olive-green band. Beyond this band the s. t. space is gray filled, making alto- 

 gether a large subquadrate dark patch. T. p. line marked by an olivaceous gray 

 shade on the costa, thence by a broken gray shade outcurved over the cell, and an 

 incurved series of black luuules in the dark space below the reniform. An apical 

 olivaceous gray patch extends half way through s. t. space on costa and squarely 

 separated there from the white. S. t. line marked by a white costal dot, black 

 and blue powdered through the dark apical space, whitish and diffuse below the 

 middle. Between the dark quadrate patch resting on the inner margin, and the 

 dark apex, the space is irregularly mottled, and no two examples are alike. 

 There is a series of distinct black tei'minal spots. Fringes dark at apex and 

 sometimes at hind angle; interval more or less com()letely white or yellowish. 

 Orbicular a black or olivaceous discal spot, variably distinct. Reniform round 

 or oval, solid gray or outlined, with pale centre. Secondaries smoky, with whit- 

 ish base in the male, all smoky in the female. Fringes yellowish, with a smoky 

 interline. Beneath, primaries dusky on disc; costa yellow, cut with blackish at 

 outer third, pale along inner margin, fringes cut with yellow about middle and 

 before apex. Secondaries yellowish, with a smoky outer margin, fringes yel- 

 lowish. An oblique smoky bar outward from outer third of costa, changing to a 

 slender line parallel with outer dark band. A smoky discal lunule. 



Expands 20-24 mm. = .80-96 inches. 



H((b.—I'\u)einx, Arizona, April and August (Dr. Barnes); Ari- 

 zona; Hot Springs, New Mexico, 7000 ft. (Dr. Hulst) ; Las Vegas, 

 New Mexico (Cockerell, No. 800). 



Four MKiles and two females, all diflerent. This species is similar 

 to sedata in tyj)e of maculation but much more white, and somewhat 

 larger. The division of the basal space into uj)per white and lower 

 gray portions is characteristic. The primaries are rather narrow 

 and elongate. Secondaries with 5 only a little weaker, from the 



