MATIGRAMMA. 329 



8144. Matigramma metaleuca, n. sp. 

 (Plate CCXXVI. fig. 26.) 



S ■ Head and thorax blackish mixed with white ; palpi white at 

 base and with white ring at extremity of 2nd joint ; pectus and 

 femora white, the tarsi black ringed with white ; abdomen whitish 

 irrorated with black-brown, the ventral surface white. Fore wing 

 suffused and thickly irrorated with black-brown ; subbasal line 

 slight, black, from costa to submedian fold ; antemedial line indis- 

 tinctly double, black, waved, rather obliquely curved ; an indistinct 

 double waved dark medial line ; a black point in middle of cell ; 

 reniform defined by blackish ; postmedial line double, black, bent 

 outwards below costa, then sinuous, strongly incurved below vein 4, 

 some whitish points beyond it on costa ; subterminal line indistinct, 

 dark, waved, excurved below vein 7 and at middle ; a series of black 

 points defined on outer side by white before termen ; a fine white 

 line at base of cilia. Hind wing white irrorated with brown ; a 

 slight dark discoidal striga ; traces of a slightly sinuous dark post- 

 medial line and of a subterminal line with blackish points at the 

 veins and small spots at vein 2 and tornus ; a series of small black 

 lunules just before termen ; cilia white chequered with blackish at 

 tips ; the underside white, the costal and terminal areas slightly 

 irrorated with brown, a black discoidal point and series of black 

 points and strige before termen. 



ITab. U.S.A., Arizona, Phoenix (Kunze), 1 d type. Ex^). 28 

 millim. 



8145. Matigramma perigeana, n. sp. 

 (Plate CCXXVI. fig. 27.) 



5 . Head and thorax fuscous brown mixed with grey ; tegulis 

 greyer with a small dorsal black sjiot ; palpi, pectus, and legs grey 

 irrorated with blackish ; abdomen pale brown irrorated with black, 

 the ventral surface brownish white. Fore wing fuscous brown 

 mixed with grey and thickly irrorated with black ; subbasal line 

 slight, black, from costa to submedian fold ; antemedial line rather 

 diffused, blackish, somewhat oblique to submedian fold ; the medial 

 area with two indistinct double sinuous blackish lines ; reniform 

 small, whitish defined by black and placed on a whitish patch ; 

 postmedial line indistinct, blackish, bent outwards below costa, 

 incurved at discal fold, bent inwards from below vein 4 to vein 2, 

 then sinuous, some whitish points beyond it on costa ; subterminal 

 line indistinct, blackish, slightly angled outwards below veins 7 

 and 4, then incurved ; a series of slight black striae faintly defined 

 on outer side by whitish before termen ; a fine pale line at base of 

 cilia. Hind wing whitish tinged with brown and with slight dark 

 irroration ; a double diffused dark subterminal line ; a rather diffused 

 dark line before termen ; cilia whitish with a dark line at middle ; 

 the underside white irrorated with brown, a slight dark discoidal 

 lunule, and traces of postmedial and sixbterminal lines. 



Ilah. ArgEjS^tina, Mendoza, La Paz (Baine), 1 $ type. JiJxjj. 

 51 luilliin. 



