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*8040. Zale metata. (Plate CCXXX. fig. 15.) 

 Fhaocyma metata, Smilli, Pr. U.S. Nat. Mus. xxxv. p. 248 (1909). 



S ■ Head, thorax, and abdomen pale red-ljrown ; tarsi slightly 

 ringed with white. Fore wing pale red -brown ; the basal area 

 tinged with rufous ; a curved subbasal black striga from costa ; 

 antemedial line fine, blackish, angled outwards below costa, then 

 oblique, sinuous ; reniform a narrow black lunule with rufous 

 suffusion beyond it ; medial line very indistinct, double, oblique to 

 the reniform, incurved and waved below the cell ; postmedial line 

 blackish, exeurved below costa, incurved at discal fold, excurved at 

 vein -i, then stron^lv incurved, some rufous suffusion beA'ond it 

 below costa ; subterminal line blackish, incurved and indistinct to 

 vein 4 where it is angled outwards, tlien stronger and again in- 

 curved ; the terminal area with some black strlie. Hind wing pale 

 red-brown, some black scales along vein 1 ; the medial area with 

 faint traces of three lines ; subterminal line almost obsolete towards 

 costa, below vein G blackish slightly defined on outer side by whitish 

 and with a rufous band on its inner side, incurved ; the terminal 

 area with a few slight black striae ; the vinderside with slight brown 

 discoidal spot and indistinct sinuous postmedial line. 



Hah. U.S.A., New York, cotype in Coll. W. Barnes, Center, 

 Distr. of Cohunbia, Washington, Pennsylvania, N. Carolina, Tryon, 

 Virginia, Florida. Exp. 46 millim. Probably a variety of 

 Z. ohligna. 



8041. Zale curema. (Plate CCXXX. tig. 16.) 



PhcBOcyma curema, Smitli, Pr. U.S. Nat. Mus. xxxt. p. 250 (1909). 



S . Head, thorax, and abdomen dull reddish brown irrorated with 

 a few black scales ; tarsi blackish with pale rings. Fore wing dull 

 reddish brown ; subbasal line slight, black, curved, from costa to 

 vein 1 ; antemedial line slight, black, acutely angled outwards 

 below costa, then obliquely curved ; reniform a slight blackish 

 lunule ; medial line very indistinct, double, oblique fi'om costa to 

 the reniform and incurved below^ the cell ; postmedial line slight, 

 black, excurved below costa, incurved at discal fold, excurved at 

 vein 4, then incurved and slightly sinuous ; subterminal line black, 

 obsolescent and waved to vein 4, then stronger and incurved, a white 

 spot beyond it in submedian interspace ; a scries of faint blackish 

 striaj before termen. Hind wing dull reddish brown, the inner area 

 irrorated Avith a few black scales ; traces of a waved medial line and 

 of an obli(jue sinuous postmedial line; subterminal line black, almost 

 obsolete towards costa, incurved and slightly defined on outer side 

 bywhite below vein 6, some white beyond it in submedian inter- 

 space ; the terminal area with a few black striie ; the midcrside 

 grey-brown irrorated with red-brown, a slight dark discoidal lunule, 

 traces of a postmedial series of points on the veins and of a curved 

 subterminal line. 



