ZALE. 239 



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



PhcBOcyma metata, Smith, Pr. U.S. Nat. Mus. xxxv. p. 248 (1909). 



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

 I'inged with white. Fore wing pale red-brown ; the basal area 

 tinged with rufous ; a ciu-ved subbasal black striga from costa ; 

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

 oblique, sinuous ; reniform a narrow black luniile with rufous 

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

 the renifoi'm, incurved and waved below the cell ; postmedial line 

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

 vein 4, then strongly incurved, some rufous suffusion beyond it 

 below costa ; subterminal line blackish, incurved and indistinct to 

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

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

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

 faint traces of three lines ; subterminal line ahnost obsolete towards 

 costa, below vein 6 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 strise ; the underside with slight brown 

 discoidal spot and indistinct sinuous postmedial line. 



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

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

 Virginia, Florida. JlJxj). 46 millim. Probably a variety of 

 Z. obliqua. 



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



Fheocyma mrema, Smith, Pr. U.S. Nat. Mus. xxxv. 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 browai ; 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 from 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 series of faint blackish 

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

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

 of an oblique sinuous postmedial line ; subterminal line black, almost 

 obsolete towards costa, incurved and slightly defined on outer side 

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

 space ; the terminal area with a few black striae ; the underside 

 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. 



