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general type of maculation ; but the secondaries are nearly white 

 instead of smoky ; the primaries are whiter, and have the dark area 

 along the inner margin broken and irregular; the thoracic disc is 

 leaden gray instead of brown, and, finally, the frontal process of 

 the head is umbilicate or navel shaped, with an obvious rim sur- 

 rounding the roughened protuberant centre. 



Acontia alessandra n. sp.- Head and thorax white; front protuberant, 

 with a gray transverse band. Abdomen yellowish. Primaries white from base 

 to beyond middle, interrupted on the costa by an oblong, smoky gray patch at 

 the normal inception point of the t. a. line. At the inception point of the t. p. 

 line another oblong bar separates off a quadrate white spot which extends to the 

 s. t. line. Outer portion of wing olivaceous gray, mottled with black and brown 

 scales. In this dusky area there are traces of a dentate black t. p. line and of a 

 very irregular and incomplete pale s. t. line; but all is broken and obscured. 

 There is a black, interrupted terminal line and the. fringes have a blackish cloud 

 opposite the cell and at inner angle. Orbicular wanting. Reniform nearly 

 round, blnckish, absorbed in the edge of the dusky outer portion of the wing. 

 Secondaries white, yellowish tinged along the outer margin. Beneath, pale 

 yellowish, with the maculation of upper surface faintly reproduced on the pri- 

 maries. Expands .76-. 88 inches = 19-22 mm. 



Hub. — Stockton, Utah, in October (Franck); Huachuca Mts., 

 Arizona (Barnes); Shovel Mt., April and July, Kerrville, and 

 Black Jack Springs, Texas (Coll. div.). 



Six specimens representing both sexes in good or fair condition. 

 The species belongs to that series in which a quadrate white spot is 

 separated on the costal region before the apex. It is allied to 

 quadriplaga, but is white at the base and to or beyond the middle. 

 There appears to be no obvious difference between the sexes and 

 there is no species with which it is liable to be confused. 



Icontia disconnect a u. sp. — Head and thorax gray ; collar more or less 

 broadly white; disc with metallic scales. Primaries white above the median 

 vein and along costa to the s. t. line. A dark, brown gray shading from base 

 below median vein to the t. p. line, deeply indented or entirely cut by a white 

 tooth from the middle of the median space. The apex is brown, and from this 

 an oblique shading of olivaceous, gray and metallic scales extends toward the 

 dark area along the inner margin without, in any case before me, quite bridging 

 the gap. The area about the hind angle white. There is a broken hlack termi- 

 nal line, and the fringes are largely leaden gray. 8. t. line very incomplete, 

 white, variably marked by dusky shadings from the costa to the middle of the 

 wing, thence lost. Orbicular wanting. Eeniform vaguely marked in one speci- 

 men only. Secondaries white, with a faint yellowish tinge, and with a narrow 

 smoky outer edging. Beneath, primaries yellowish, the maculation of the upper 

 surface faintly reproduced; secondaries white or nearly so. Expands .94-1.04 

 inches = 24-26 mm. 



