CONOCHAEES. 683 



decumbent crest ; tibiaa smoothly scaled ; abdomen without crests. Fore wing 

 with the apex rounded, the termen evenly curved and not crenulate ; veins 3 

 and 5 from near angle of cell ; 6 from below upper angle ; 7 from angle ; 8, 9 

 stalked ; 10, 11 from cell. Hind wing with veins 3, 4 stalked; 5 obsolescent 

 from middle of disoocellulars ; 6, 7 from upper angle ; 8 anastomosing with 

 the cell to near middle. 



A. Fore wing with distinct dark shade beyond medial line. 



a. Fore wing with the medial line acutely angled outwards in 



cell to the annulus of reniform. 



a}. Fore wing with the centre of reniform white acuta. 



6'. Fore wing with the reniform nearly filled in with 



f uscoii s altera. 



b. Fore wing with the medial line excurved in cell but not to 



the annulus of reniform. 

 fli. Fore wing with the terminal area mostly white, 

 a^. Fore wing with the shade beyond the medial line dark 



red-brown elegantula. 



IP'. Fore wing with the shade beyond the medial line pale 



ru fous arizonce. 



h^. Fore wing with the terminal area almost wholly suffused 



with pale brown interrupta. 



B. Fore wing without distinct dark shade beyond medial line. 



a. Fore wing without dark bar from costa to outer edge of 



reniform catalina. 



h. Fore wing with dark bar from costa to outer edge of 



reniform hutsoni. 



6030. Conocliares acuta. (Plate CLXIX. fig. 13.) 



Conochares acutus, Smith, J. N.Y. Ent. Soc. xiii. p. 207 (1905). 



$ . Head, thorax, and abdomen white ; palpi with the second 

 and third joints brownish ringed with white at tips ; antennae 

 brown ; tarsi brownish ringed with white. Fore wing with the 

 basal half silvery white ; a small greyish spot in base of cell and 

 antemedial spot on costa ; terminal half white suffused with grey, 

 bounded on inner side by the blackish medial line, acutely angled 

 outwards in cell and with some fuscous suffusion beyond it forming 

 a somewhat conical patch on inner area ; faint traces of an elliptical 

 white annulus to reniform ; a slight brownish postmedial spot on 

 costa ; subterminal line defined on inner side by a faint dark shade, 

 slightly excurved below vein 7 and at middle and incurved towards 

 inner margin ; a terminal series of black points ; cilia white with 

 some fuscous brown at apex, discal fold, and tornus. Hind wing 

 white suffused with fuscous brown except the cell and area below 

 it ; a faint discoidal spot ; cilia white. Underside of fore wing 

 brown, the inner area and costa except towards base white ; hind 

 wing white, the costal area and terminal area to vein 4 irrorated 

 with brown. 



Hah. U.S.A., Arizona, Eedington, 1 5 , Sta. Catalina Mts, 

 Exp. 26 raillim. 



