rSEUDACONTIA. 491 



*4980. Pseudacontia cansa. (Plate CXLVIII. fig. 28.) 

 Pseudacontia cansa, Smith, Ann. N.Y. Ac. Sci. xviii. p. 119 (1908). 



Head and thorax white mixed with glossy grey ; abdomen grey 

 with white segmental lines. Fore wing glossy grey ; an ante- 

 inedial white baud, rather difiUsed on inner area in male ; orbicular 

 a black point ; reniform a small black lunule on inner edge of the 

 white postmedial band which is rather diffused on inner area in 

 male ; subterminal line whitish, very irregular, obsolescent at 

 middle, in some specimens defined on inner side by brown scales; 

 an apical patch of golden brown scales; a terminal series of black 

 points ; cilia indistinctly intersected with whitish. Hind wing 

 fuscous grey with a diffused whitish medial band, more distinct 

 in male which has a slight dark discoidal lunule. Underside of 

 fore wing fuscous at base shading to white before the broad blackish 

 subterminal band with the area beyond it whitish, a small black 

 discoidal lunule : hind wing whitish with subbasal dark band, 

 blackish discoidal lunule, and broad blackish subterminal band. 



Hah. U.S.A., Kansas, Hamilton Co. Exp. 24 millim. This 

 species is unknown to me, figured from a drawing from type in Coll. 

 J. B. Smith. 



4981. Pseudacontia aterrima. (Plate CXLVII. fig. 16.) 



Oncociiemis aterrima, Grote, Can. Ent. xi. p. 199 (1879); Smith, Cat. Noct. 

 N. Am. p. 1G3. 



2 . Head, thorax, and abdomen brown mixed with whitish ; 

 tarsi ringed with white. Fore Aving fuscous bi'own slightly tinged 

 and irrorated with grey ; subbasal line represented by black striae 

 from costa and cell defined on each side by brown scales ; ante- 

 medial line black, indistinct, oblique, waved ; claviform narrow, 

 brownish defined by some black scales ; orbicular and reniform 

 brownish defined by black, the former round, the latter open above 

 and below ; postmedial line indistinctly double filled in with white 

 and with white suffusion beyond it leaving slight dark streaks on the 

 veins, slightly bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then 

 incurved and again excurved to inner margin, some white points 

 beyond it on costa ; a subterminal series of white points in the 

 interspaces with small black marks before them placed on brownish 

 streaks, excurved below vein 7 and at middle ; a terminal series of 

 small black lunules. Hind wing black-brown with a slight greyish 

 tinge; an indistinct pale medial line, somewhat excurved at middle 

 and oblique to inner margin ; cilia black-brown at base, white at 

 tips. Underside of both wings black-browm irrorated with white, 

 a whitish band beyond the postmedial line. 



Hah. U.S.A., California, Havilah, 1 5 type. Exp. 28 millim, 



*4982. Pseudacontia groteana. (Plate CXLVIII. fig. 18.) 

 Pseudacontia groteana, Djar, Proc. Ent, Soc. Wash. v. p. 225 (1903). 

 S . Head and thorax greyish ; abdomen black. Fore wing 



