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A. pustulata Echo. (47 e) differs from domina in the somewhat more reddish-brown colouring and only puslulata. 
white transverse lines not being marked with black; between the maculae which are surrounded with white 
there is a quadrangular black spot in the cell. The hindwing is more orange-yellow, the discal spot is very large. 
Arizona. 
A. divinula Grt. (47 e) is a small red-brown species with a darker brown proximal area, strewn with divinula. 
grey, easily discernible by the broad white postmedian area being confluent with the white reniform macula. 
California. 
A. astrologa B. McD. (47 e) is very closely allied to divinula, but larger and easily distinguished astrologa. 
by the absence of the discal spot on the hindwing which shows a broader marginal band; the anterior transverse 
line is distinctly double, filled with white. Arizona. 
A. germana Edw. (47 e) is brown on the forewing, powdered with grey, with greenish-black transverse germana. 
lines, the posterior line being indistinctly double, distally to it powdered with white, the whitish undulate line 
proximally bordered with black; the orange hindwing exhibits beside the black marginal band and discal spot 
an undulate black antemedian transverse line, the fringes being speckled black and white. California. 
A. decia Grt. (— amicula Edw.) (47 e) is very similar, on the forewing more reddish, the maculae decia. 
more distinctly surrounded with white, between them a strong black median line, the posterior transverse 
line being hardly marked with black, behind it the extensive white powdering is absent. On the hindwing the 
black antemedian band is much broader. Oregon, California. 
A. depicta Grt. (47 e) is somewhat larger than the preceding ones, strewn with a more purple grey depicta. 
colour, in the disc with a reddish tint, only the small reniform macula marked with grey is present; the grey 
undulate line is proximally shaded with brown. The antemedian band and marginal band are much narrower 
than in decia. California. 
A. lithosina Edw. (= variegata Sm.) (47 e) by the broad yellowish-white postmedian area resembles lithosina. 
somewhat divinula, but it is much larger, and on the hindwing it lacks the discal spot, though it has an ante¬ 
median transverse line. The forewing is more suffused with a coppery brown, in the median area on the veins 
scaled with silvery blue; the black transverse lines are double, filled with whitish, the very large white reniform 
macula is confluent with the costal margin. Oregon, California. 
A. miona Sm. (47 e) is very similar to lithosina and best distinguished by the much more uniformly miona. 
extending marginal band. Forewing purple brown, strewn with black and metallic blue; the reniform macula 
is yellowish-white, centred with red-brown, the postmedian area more yellowish-white, the undulate line bluish- 
white, at the anal angle spotted yellowish-white. California. 
A. diva Grt. (47 f) is the most easily distinguished from the similar species by the yellowish-white diva. 
hindwing with a narrow blackish-brown marginal band; forewing dark brown, mixed with grey; the white 
postmedian oblique band is narrow. — ab. yosemitensis Strd. (— ab. 1 limps.) shows on the hindwing a broader yosemiten- 
marginal band, and the forewing beneath is more extensively marked with black; from the Yosemite Valley. sts 
The typical form flies in the other parts of California. 
A. casta Edw. (47 f) is the most easily discernible by the entirely white hindwing with a black marginal casta. 
band without the discal spot. Forewing blackish-brown mixed with grey, and marked very much like diva, 
the post median band being very broad and purely white. California. 
A. superba Edw. (47 f) is likewise similar to diva, but smaller, the carmine hindwing is all around superba. 
broadly bordered with black, with a small brown discal spot; on the forewing the white postmedian area is 
narrow. California. 
217. Genus: Pseudacontia Sm. 
Chiefly separated from the preceding genus by the smoothly scaled, not hairy thorax with a loose tuft 
on the metathorax, as well as by the smooth frons only exhibiting a horny plate below; the short anterior tibiae 
are inside armed with a long spine and outside with a short one. The eyes are large and round and not small, 
elliptical. 
P. louisa Sm. (47 f). Forewing yellowish-white, strewn with brown and black. Basal area blackish, loidsa. 
median area brown, before the latter a broad yellowish-white band, with black maculae, a large ring-macula 
surrounded with yellow. Hindwing blackish with a broad yellowish-white median band with a large black 
discal luna in it. Louisiana. 
P. crustaria Morr. (47 f) has red-brown forewings strewn with white and black, in the discal area and crustaria. 
behind it powdered with bluish-white, with broad white antemedian and postmedian bands; the black maculae 
are surrounded with white and very small. Hindwing blackish-brown with a faded median line which is distally 
bordered with white. Nebraska, Colorado. 
