AMERICAN LEPIDOPTERA. 



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fringes opposite. This gray portion of the wing is shaded with mossy green 

 violet and carmine, hut not evenly, nor alike in the specimens. In general, the 

 violet shades extend through s. t. space, sometimes forming a blue line, and then 

 along inner margin. The green shades border the white anterior region, and 

 the carmine shading is apical. In one example the t. p. line crosses the pale 

 costal region as a narrow greenish line. The orbicular is wanting; reniform 

 obscurely olive margined. Secondaries with a faint yellowish tinge. Beneath 

 yellowish, primaries more positively so, the disk dark or blackish. Secondaries 

 with or without an obscure discal lunule. 

 Expands 18-20 mm. = .72-.80 inches. 



if a6.— Arizona; Round Mt., Texas. 



Two males and two females, all very much alike and agreeing 

 with the type. The species is very characteristic and, with its broad 

 pale costal region and white hind angle is easily recognizable. The 

 primaries are moderately long, trigonate, with long fringes. Sec- 

 ondaries with o and 4 forking at the end of the cell, not beyond as 

 is usual ; 5 decidedly weaker and from a short spur nearer to 4. 



Acoiitia laiiceulata Grote. 



1879, Grt., Can. P^nt.. xi, 198, Tarache. 



1893, Smith, Bull. 44, IT. S. Nat. Mus., 299, Acontia. 

 Head mottled with gray. Collar white. Thorax else gray. Abdomen dirty 

 white. Primaries white along costal region to the middle of the s. t. space where 

 it is squarely cut olf. The median shade is marked on the costa and may extend 

 across the costal white space as a gray bar or a yellowish shading. T. p. line 

 broadly marked on the costa, usually extending across the white space as a broad 

 bar, though sometimes only as an olivaceous shading. There may be thus, along 

 costa, a continuous white space from base to the middle of s. t. space; a white 

 bar to t. p. line and a quadrate white patcli beyond ; or there may be a white bar 

 to the middle, followed by two quadrate white costal patches. Below the median 

 vein the wing is gray, becoming olivaceous and tending to mottled beyond the t. 

 p. line toward the apex. S. t. and terminal space white mottled below the mid- 

 dle. Fringes mostly gray, cut with white at the middle and half way between 

 it and tip. There is a series of evident, black terminal dots. T. a. line trace- 

 able through the dark color in some specimens as an upright, dusky shading. T. 

 p. line is broken, sinuate, dusky, never more than traceable. S. t. line marked 

 by blue and black scales in the brown apical patch, narrow whitish below, until 

 it merges into the irregular mottling of the s. t. and terminal space above the 

 hind angle. Orbicular absent. Reniform olivaceous, oval, •sometimes white 

 centered, sometimes only laterally outlined, in very dark specimens lost in the 

 broad bar from the t. p. line to costa. Secondaries soiled whitish in the male, to 

 slightly smoky in the female, fringes white. Beneath, the general shading of 

 the primaries is obscurely produced, the lighter shades with a yellowish tinge. 

 Secondaries white. 



Expands 24-26 mm. =.96-1.05 inches. 



Hab.— Texas; Argus Mts., Arizona, April. 



TRANS. AM. ENT. SOC, XXVII. (9) SEPTEMBER, 1900 



