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Genus MATIGRAMMA. ^ 



Type. 

 Maiiijram^na, Grote, Trans. Ara. Ent. Soc. iv. p. 22 (1872) ... indverilinea. 



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

 of head and moderately scaled, the 3rd moderate ; frons smootli ; eyes large, 

 round ; antennae of male with fasciculate cilia ; thorax clothed almost entirely 

 with scales, the metathorax with depi-essed crest; tibite slightly fringed with 

 hair, the mid tibiaj strongly spined, in male dilated with a groove containing 

 a tult of hair, the mid and hind tibite not spined ; abdomen without crests. 

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

 crenulate ; veins 3 and 5 from near angle of cell ; 6 from npper angle ; 9 from 

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

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

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

 near base only. 



A. Hind wing with indistinct sinuous dark medial line. 



a. Fore wing with the gi-ound-colour brown. 



a}. Fore wing with tlie postraedial line strongly waved, 



oblique below vein 4 nitida. 



bK Fore wing with the postmedial line slightly waved, 



incurved below vein 4 pulverilinea., 



b. Fore wing with the ground-colour grey. 



a^. Fore wing tinged with rufous rubrosiiffusa , 



b^. Fore wing not tinged with rufous Iceiia. 



15. Hind wing without medial line. 



a. Fore wing without white centre to the reniform metaJeuca. 



b. Fore wing with white centre to the reniform ■perigcana. 



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



5 . Head, thorax, and abdomen brown mixed with grey ; pectus 

 and ventral surface of abdomen whiter ; tarsi brown ringed with 

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

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

 costa to submedian 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 kmule ; an irregularly waved 

 blackish medial line, double and rather diffused at costa ; post- 

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

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

 points beyond it on costa ; subterminal line whitish slightly defined 

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

 black points defined on outer side by w^hitish just before termen, 

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

 tinged with grey and with slight dark irroration ; an indistinct 

 double sinuous dark medial line ; postmedial line blackish, minutely 

 Avaved ; subterminal line blackish slightly defined on outer side by 

 whitish, minutely waved ; a fine crenulate blackish terminal line 

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

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

 discoidal bar with shade above it from costa, indistinct rather 

 diffused waved postmedial and subterminal lines. 



Jlal. AEGEKTiifA, Tapia, 1 $ type. Hxp. 30 millim. 



