MESOSEMIA. 385° 
fasciis duabus, margine externo subparallelibus (ad marginem posticarum internum productis) et margine 
ipso fuscis, fascia altera transcellulari; subtus lineis omnibus multo latioribus, anticis ad basin posticis 
medialiter fusco irroratis. 
Hab. Guatemata, forests of Northern Vera Paz (f. D. G. & O. S.1), Cubilguitz, 
Panima, Purula, Sinanja, Sabo (Champion). 
The first specimen we took of this species is a female, and all that have since come 
to us are of that sex; but there is little difference in coloration between the sexes in 
this section of Mesosemia. 
The distinguishing characters of V. vestalis are the submarginal row of black spots 
on both wings, and the rather elongated ocellus on the primaries. There is no sub- 
marginal ocellus on the primaries nor on the secondaries above or below ; M. lagora 
has both, M. lepida the former and a cellular ocellus beneath, and M. nivalis no 
cellular ocellus above or below. 
With the exception of WM. leucogea described below, M. vestalis seems most nearly 
allied to U. philemon of the Amazons region; but that species has a line instead of the 
submarginal row of black spots. 
It is an inhabitant of dense forest up to an elevation of about 4000 feet. 
12. Mesosemia leucogza, sp. n. 
M. vestali similis, sed minor, et anticarum lineis fuscis latioribus punctis submarginalibus vix apparentibus, 
anticarum ocello majore, rotundo et albo bipupillato, posticis lineis transversis tribus (nec duabus) fuscis, 
diversa. 
Hab. Nicaraaua, Chontales (Belz). 
We have two female specimens of this species, which, though closely allied to 
- M. vestalis, seems sufficiently distinct. The size of the ocellus of the primaries recalls. 
the South-American W. hyphea and M. matisca. 
13, Mesosemia lagora. 
Diophthalma lagora, Herr.-Schaff. Samml. aussereur. Schmett. p. 55, f. 43, 44". 
M. vestali similis, sed anticis ad marginem externum fuscis, ocello submarginali, altero parvo ad medium 
marginis posticarum externi, subtus ocello cellulari nullo. 
@ mari similis. 
Hab. Nicaracua, Chontales (Belt); Panama, Volcan de Chiriqui (Champion).— 
Guiana }. 
We have little doubt this species is rightly named MW. lagora, Herr.-Sch., concerning 
which much confusion has arisen, chiefly owing to Hewitson having mistaken the insect 
and figured another species under this name. 
The characteristics of IM. lagora are the presence of submarginal ocelli in both wings 
above and below, and the absence of any ocellus in the cell of the primaries. 
Found in dense humid forest (Champion). 
BIOL. CENTR.-AMER., Rhopal., Vol. I., December 1880. 3D 
