702 noctuid;e. 



postmedial and white subterminal lines on it ; a black point on 

 tcrmen above toruus. Hind wing pure white. 



Huh. AritENTixa, Gran Chaco, Florenzia ( Wagner), 1 3 type. 

 Exp. 24 niillim. 



Genus CONACONTIA. 



Type. 



Therasea, Grote, Abh. Nat. Ver. Brem. xiv. p. 126 (1895), 



non descr. nee Therasia, Hutton, Moll. LS84 an g u st i points. 



Conacontia, Smith, Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. xxvii. p. 55 (1900). flavicosla. 



Proboscis fully developed; palpi obliquely upturned, slenderly scaled, the' 

 2nd joint hardly reaching middle of frons, the 3rd short ; Irons with large 

 rather pointed conical prominence with corneous plate below it produced to a < 

 point in front; eyes large, round; antennae of male almost simple; thorax 

 clothed almost entirely with scales, the prothorax without crest, the metathorax 

 with depressed crest ; tibiae smoothly scaled ; abdomen without crests. Fore 

 wing long and narrow, the apes rounded, the termen evenly curved and not 

 crenulate ; veins 3 and 5 from near angle of cell; 6 from below upper angle ; 

 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form a longitudinally narrow areole ; 

 11 from cell. Hind wing with veins 3,4 stalked; 5 nearly fully developed 

 from just above lower angle of cell; 6, 7 from upper angle; 8 anastomosing 

 with the cell to middle. 



A. Fore wing with the orbicular absent. 



a. Fore wing with the white costal area expanding at 



middle into a triangular patch extending to vein 1... huacucha. 



b. Fore wing with the white costal area not expanding 



into a triangular patch at middle flavicosta. 



B. Fore wing with the orbicular present. 



a. Fore wing with the orbicular defined by white and 



separated from the dark inner area orba. 



b. Fore wing with the orbicular confluent with the dark 



inner area angustipennis. 



6064. Conacontia huachuca. (Plate CLXX. fig. 15.) 

 Conacontia huachuca, Smith, Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. xxix. p. 211 (1903). 



<3 . Head grey with whitish band above frons ; palpi white, grey 

 at tips ; thorax grey, the tegulse except at tips and shoulders white ; 

 pectus and legs white, the fore legs and mid tibiae and tarsi tinged 

 with brown ; abdomen white, dorsally tinged with ochreous. Fore 

 wing creamy white ; an antemedial olive-brown and leaden grey 

 patch on inner area, traversed by the slight whitish antemedial 

 line excurved above inner margin, and conjoined to a conical post- 

 medial patch extending to lower angle of cell and with three small 

 black and whitish lunules on it representing the incurved part of 

 postmedial line, a slight white line near its outer edge forking above ; 

 a rather wedge-shaped grey patch beyond the cell with some white 

 striae on it, conjoined at extremity to an apical olive-brown and 

 greyish patch ; subterminal line white, traversing the apical patch, 

 excurved below vein 7 and with blackish mark before it, then 

 incurved on the wedge-shaped patch and with slight black mark 



