386 RHOPALOCERA. 
14. Mesosemia lepida, sp.n. (Tab. XLIII. fig. 3.) 
M. lagore proxima, sed posticis ocello submarginali haud notatis forsan distinguenda. 
Hab. Panama, Bugaba (Champion). 
It is perhaps doubtful if this insect will ultimately prove distinct from MV. lagora. 
We have six specimens of it, none of which have any indication of an ocellus or black 
spot near the middle of the outer margin of the secondaries on the upper side. 
15. Mesosemia molina, sp. n. 
Mesosemia lagora, Hew. Ex. Butt., Mesosemia, t. 3. f. 20 (nec Herr.-Sch.)!; Butl. & Druce, P. Z. 8S. 
1875, p. 3522, 
M. lagore quoad paginam superiorem proxima, sed subtus anticis ocello cellulari facile distinguenda. 
Hab. Nicaragua, Chontales (Belt); Costa Rica (Van Patten®), Irazu (Rogers) ; 
Panama, Lion Hill (M‘Leannan).—Cotompia!; Ecuapor; Gurana. 
This species, which Hewitson figured as MW. lagora from Colombian examples, is 
easily to be distinguished from that insect by the presence of a very distinct ocellus on 
the primaries beneath, which, in some examples, shows through to the upper side, as 
indicated in Hewitson’s plate. 
It is perhaps one of the commonest forms of this section of Mesosemia as far north 
as Nicaragua. 
16. Mesosemia nivalis, sp. n. (Tab. XLIIL. fig. 4.) 
M. lagore quoque similis, sed alis candidissimis lineis fuscis angustissimis, anticarum margine externo haud 
fusco, et ocellis in pagina superiore nullis distinguenda. 
Hab. Mzxico, Jalapa (H. Edwards); Guarmemata, Polochic valley (Hague), Panima, 
Zapote, Pantaleon, Las Mercedes, San Isidro (Champion) ; Nicaragua, Chontales (Belt). 
This is much the whitest of these Mesosemie in our region, being even whiter than 
M. vestalis. 
The submarginal ocelli of WV. lagora are just indicated by black spots on the under- 
side; but on the upper side they are not visible. There is no ocellus in the cell of the 
primaries, and in this respect VV. nivalis differs from MW. vestalis and MW. molina. 
At San Isidro it is found in the cacao-plantations (Champion). 
Two other species allied to IM. nivalis are represented in our collection by a good 
series of specimens. They are described below *. 
* Mesosemia nivea, sp. n. 
M. nivali similis quoad paginam superiorem sed lineis fuscis aliquot latioribus; subtus alis macula ad cellule 
finem nigra, et posticis punctis submarginalibus nigris distinguenda. 
Hab. Botrvia (Buckley); Brazrt, Minas Geraes, Espirito Santo. 
Mus. nostr. [See opp. 
