32G noctuidj:. 



Genus MATIGRAMMA. ^ 



Type. 



Maliyramma, Grote, Trans. Am. Ent. Soo. iv. p. 22 (1872) ... pulverilinca. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi upturned, the 2nd joint reaching to vertex 

 of head and moderately scaled, tlie 3rd moderate; frons smooth ; eyes large, 

 round ; autennce of male with lascicujate cilia ; thorax clothed almost entirely 

 wiih scales, tlie metathorax with depressed crest; tihije slightly fringed with 

 hair, tiie mid tibiiu strongly spincd, in male dilated with a groove containing 

 a tult of hair, the mid and liind tibiiB not spined ; abdomen without crests. 

 Fore wing with the apex rounded, the termen evenly curved and sliglitly 

 crenulale ; veins 3 and .') Irom near angle of cell ; G from upper angle ; 9 from 

 10 anastomosing witli 8 to form theareole ; 11 from cell. Hind wing with tiie 

 cell about half the length of wing; veins 3, 4 from angle; 5 fully developed 

 irom just above angle; G, 7 from upper angle ; 8 anastomosing with the cell 

 near base only. 



A. Hind wing with indis-tinct sinuous dark medial line. 



a. Fore wing with the ground-colour brown. 



ft'. Fore wing with the postmedial line strongly waved, 



oblique below vein 4 nitida. 



f/K Fore wing with the postmedial lino slightly waved, 



incurved below vein 4 7»(/i'crf/»(e«. 



b. Fore wing with the ground-colour grey. 



ai. Fore wing tinged with rufous rubrosuffusa, 



b^. Fore wing not tinged with rufous lana. 



Jj. Hind wing without medial line. 



ft. Fore wing without white centre to the reniform metaleuca. 



b. Fore wiiig with white centre to the reniform pei-igcana. 



8140. Matigramma nitida, n. sp. (Plate CCXXYI. fig. 23.) 



9 . Head, thorax, and abdomen brown mixed with grey ; peetus 

 and ventral surface of abdomen whiter ; tarsi brown ringed with 

 white. Fore wing reddish brown with slight dark irroration ; a 

 slight curved dark subbasal line defined on outer side by grey, from 

 costa to subnu^dian fold ; antemedial line black defined on inner 

 side by whitish, incurved in cell and at vein 1 ; a blackish point in 

 middle of cell and slight discoidal lunula ; an irregularly waved 

 blackish medial line, double and rather diffused at costa ; ])0st- 

 medial line fini;, black slightly defined on outer side by grey, oblique 

 to below^ vein 7, then waved, oblique below vein 4, some whitish 

 ])oints beyond it on costa ; subterminal line whitish slightly defined 

 on each side by blackish, waved, oblique below vein 3 ; a series of 

 black points defined on outer side by whitish just before termen, 

 and a fine whitish line at base of cilia. Hind wins; reddish brown 

 tinged with grey and with slight dark irroration ; an indistinct 

 double sinuous dark medial line ; postmedial line blackish, minutely 

 waved ; subterminal line blackish slightly defined on outer side by 

 whitish, minutely waved ; a fine cremilate blackish terminal line 

 with black points at the interspaces, and a fine whitish line at base 

 of cilia ; the underside grey-white in-orated with brown, a dark 

 discoidal bar Avith shade al)ove it from costa, indistinct rather 

 diffused waved postmedial and subterminal lines. 



Ilah. Argentina, Tapia, 1 5 type. Exp. 30 millim. 



