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NOCTUID^. 



■*6066. Conacontia orba. (Plate CLXX. fig. 16.) 

 Conacontia orba, Smith, Trans. Am. Eut. Soc. xxix. p. 210 (1903). 



5 . Head and thorax creamy white with a slight fuscous tinge 

 on vertices ; abdomen yellow. Fore wing with the costal area 

 creamy white to near middle of wing, the inner area fuscous grey 

 to subterminal line leaving the torual area white, the postmediai 

 area mostly white except at costa, the terminal area mottled with 

 golden brown ; antemedial line represented by a grey band on the 

 white area ; orbicular a distinct round grey spot ; reniform a large 

 round grey spot incompletely defined by white and confluent with 

 a dark spot above it on costa and the dark inner area ; an obscure 

 medial golden brown band from the dark costal spot to inner 

 margin ; postmediai line represented by a dark band from costa, 

 then interrupted and reappearing as a blackish edge to the golden 

 brown band on inner area ; subterminal line represented by a white 

 striga between the dark postmediai jDatch on cosfa and dark apical 

 patch ; a terminal series of black striae ; cilia fuscous intersected 

 with creamy white below apex and at middle and white at tornus. 

 Hind wing yellowish white tinged with fuscous ; the underside 

 yellowish white, the terminal area tinged with fuscous. 



Hab. U.S.A., Arizona, Huachuca Mts. Exp. 21-26 millim. 

 This species is unknown to me ; figured from a drawing from type 

 in Coll. J. B. Smith. 



6067. Conacontia angustipennis. (Plate CLXX. fig. 17.) 



Taraclie angustipennis, Grote, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phil. p. 426 (1875) ; 

 Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 299. 



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

 base of tegulge white ; palpi except at tips and lower part of frontal 

 prominence white ; 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 silvery purple-grey 

 mixed with red-brown ; a yellowish white fascia in basal half of 

 cell sometimes extending to costa and to just below cell and con- 

 fluent with an irregular patch from middle of costa to before the 

 reniform, or completely separated from it by the antemedial line, 

 which is represented by a brown spot on costa and an indistinct 

 oblique sinuous dark line from middle of cell to inner margin, 

 towards which it tends to become double ; orbicular confluent with 

 the dark inner area ; reniform brown with some white in lower 

 part and defined by yellowish white, confluent with the patch from 

 middle of costa ; an indistinct oblique medial dark line from cell 

 to inner margin ; a wedge-shaped postmediai white patch from 

 costa with the minutely dentate black postmediai line arising 

 from its apex and strongly incurvtid below vein 4 ; subterminal line 

 yellowish white, diffused on outer side except towards costa where it 



