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Hab. — Huachuca Mts., Arizona (Dr. Barnes). 



Four males in good condition. This species hears an aggravating 

 resemblance to Conacontia huachuca; but while the front of the 

 head is prominent and somewhat inflated, there is no umbilication 

 and no projecting rim. There can be no question of a sexual differ- 

 ence, because all the examples of both species are males. Within 

 the genus to which I have referred it, the nearly ally is major, which 

 is much larger and has decidedly yellowish secondaries. 



Acoutia liuif a n. sp. — Head and thorax white ; head with a protuberant 



front; sometimes almost tuberculate. Primaries white to the middle, and the 

 white continues along the costal region to the s. t. line, broken only by a yellow- 

 ish or gray costal spot at almost the middle of the costal margin. A leaden gray 

 area begins at tbe middle of the inner margin, reaches nearly to the inner angle 

 and narrows a little toward the median vein on which it is obtusely rounded, 

 leaving the round, leaden gray reniform free. A yellow shade extends into the 

 cell before the reniform, and may or may not connect with the gray patch on the 

 costa. The terminal space is dusky, gray or yellowish from the apex to the mid- 

 dle of the outer margin, and in some specimens it continues almost to the hind 

 angle and invades the s. t. space, indicating an irregular, broken s. t. line. There 

 is a white terminal line before a series of black interspaceal marks. The fringes 

 are gray at base, tipped with white. Orbicular wanting. Reniform round, leaden 

 gray, white ringed or entirely surrounded by white. Secondaries blackish 

 tinged, paler basally, the fringes white. Beneath, primaries blackish, with a 

 yellow tinge along the costa, secondaries white. Expands .60 .80 inches = 15- 

 20 mm. 



Hab — Kerrville, Texas, Huachuca Mts., Arizona, in April (Dr. 

 Barnes) ; Southern Arizona (Mr. Poling). 



Three males and five females, all in good condition. The species 

 is similar to binoctda in general appearance, but is smaller through- 

 out. The secondaries have a blackish tinge and the terminal area 

 is more evenly gray. In binocula there is a continuous band from 

 the broad gray area which rests on the inner margin to the apex, 

 which partly envelopes the reniform, but leaves the terminal area 

 free. In huita this large gray area is not continuous and is com- 

 pleted below the reniform. The gray shading extends from the 

 apex along the outer margin, and if the two shadings are at all 

 connected it is by yellowish shadings. There is also a resemblance 

 to candefacta, especially as the dusky secondaries of that species 

 offer a similarity; but here the absence of all gray markings in the 

 basal area, joined to the separation of the gray shadings, affords a 

 distinctive character. 



TRANS. AM. ENT. SOC, XXIX. JUNE, 1903. 



