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median lines, wavy, the outer somewhat broken and absorbing the 

 small reniform dot; transverse posterior line wavy, broken; subter- 

 minal near the margin, waved, broken below, broad, touching at middle 

 of margin a large dark spot in the fringe; a row of terminal black 

 spots. Secondaries with two mesial lines, coarseh^ waved, inclosing the 

 small discal dot. from which a faint shade runs to the inner margin; 

 terminal space distinctlj^ olivaceous, with a broken blotchy submar- 

 ginal line; a crenulate terminal line; a dark spot in fringe in center of 

 margin. Below two common lines and discal dots, the margins broadh^ 

 blotched in blackish brown. 



Expanse. — 25 mm. 



Habitat. — Aroa, Venezuela. 



Type.—Q9X. No. 9556, U.S.N.M. 



Genus MATIGRAMMA Grote. 

 MATIGRAMMA PAMELA, new species. 



Pale, testaceous, the wings shaded with red-brown outwardh^; 

 primaries with a verj^ l)road blackish shaded subbasal band, which is 

 constricted into three segments, the central one gray with a black 

 central dash, the lower one pale; a minute punctiform orbicular; an 

 oblique ))lack dash on costa, succeeded below median vein by a brown 

 line, angled on submedian; reniform a linear brown curved mark, with 

 a faint brown line below it; transverse posterior line wavy, brown, 

 followed on costa by a large oblique black bar; subterminal line limit- 

 ing the dark-brown marginal space, produced inward opposite cell; a 

 darker brown shade at middle of margin. Secondaries with inner line 

 faint; discal dot a longitudinal dash, furcate toward base of wing; outer 

 line irregular, excurved over discal dash, slender, brown; terminal 

 space more sti'ongl}^ shaded in red-brown, cut b}" a diffused pale line; 

 a crenulate terminal brown line. Below with common outer and inner 

 lines and discal spots, the lines on primaries obscured by brown pow- 

 derings and with three black costal bars; on secondaries the outer line 

 crenulate and excurved over discal dot, which is elongate, but not so 

 sharpl}' as above. 



Exjmnse. — 3-1 mm. 



Jlahitat. — 



Type.— OAt. No. 9557, U.S.N.M. 



Genus AMPHIGONIA Guenee. 

 AMPHIGONIA BRUNNEA, new species. 



Brown; basal space of primaries dark chocolate brown, with irregular 

 lighter markings; lines and spots obsolete, the orbicular traceable close 

 to base as a blackish ring; color shades darker outwardly, the submar- 

 ginal line faint, yellowish, bent at an angle opposite the projection of 



