CON-ACONTIA. 703 



before it ; a terminal series of small black spots except towards 

 tornus, with some grey before them at middle ; cilia olive-brown 

 and grey with white patches below apex and at middle, the ti[»s 

 With white mixed except towards apex. Hind wing creamy white. 

 Hah. U.S.A., Arizona, Huachuea Mts., 1 c? co-type. E.i'iJ. '32 

 millim. 



6065. Conacontia flavicosta. 



Conacontia flavicosta, Smith, Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. xxvii. p. 58 (1900) ; 

 Dyar, Cat. Lep. N. Am. p. 213. 



S . Head and thorax purplish grey-brown, the back of head and 

 tegulst) at base white ; palpi white except at tips ; pectus and legs 

 white, the fore and mid tibiae and tarsi tinged with red-brown ; 

 abdomen white dorsally tinged with brown, the anal tuft ochreous. 

 Fore wing with the costal half except on terminal area white tinged 

 with yellow extending to just below the cell and with its lower 

 edge sinuous, the inner half and most of terminal area silveiy 

 purple-grey mixed with red-brown ; antemedial line indistinct, 

 blackish, erect on the dark area, sometimes indicated also at costa ; 



Fig. 199. — Conacontia flavicosta, S • \- 



a slight spur from the dark area in lower extremity of cell ; a wedge- 

 shaped yellowish white postmedial patch from costa, more or less 

 completely defined on inner side by an oblique dark striga from 

 costa to the dark area beyond the cell, the minutely dentate more 

 or less interrupted black postmedial line arising from its apex and 

 strongly incurved below vein 4 ; subterminal line yellowish white 

 defined on inner side by a slight black mark below vein 7, excurved 

 below vein 7 and at middle, then bent inwards and forming a 

 diffused patch ; a terminal series of black points except towards 

 tornus ; cilia leaden grey and brown intersected with white below 

 apex and with some white at base at middle. Hind wing whitish 

 suffused with brown, rather darker towards termen ; cilia white 

 with a brown line at base ; the underside uniform creamy white. 



This may be an aberration of C. angusiipennis. 



Hah. U.S.A., Montana, Black Hills, Colorado, 1 S ■, Durango 

 (Oslar), 2 c? , New Mexico, Hot Springs. Kv2J. 32 millim. 



