126 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [Mch., 'l2 



Two New Butterflies (Lcpid.). 

 By HENRY SKINNER, Philadelphia, Pa. 



Mesosemia ramsdeni, n. sp. 



Male. Expanse 30 mm. Primaries blackish brown with two white 

 dots on the costa, two-thirds the distance from the base to the apex ; 

 extending from these to the inner margin is a whitish fascia, lined 

 interiorly by black ; at outer angle is a black spot about 2 mm. in diam- 

 eter; at base of wing are four black lunule-shaped markings, two in 

 the cell and two below. Secondaries blackish brown with a well de- 

 nned black ocellus at anal angle, narrowly margined with orange, with 

 a line of blue scales on its outer side ; two broad black bands at base, 

 then a narrow black line crossing the wing; on outer margin three 

 nearly obsolete black dots. 



Underside. Primaries much as above but the white fascia is more 

 distinct and composed of the two costal spots and four others ; ocel- 

 lus black with a few blue scales; the spots at the base as above but 

 better defined; color of wing lighter. Secondaries have a line of eight 

 black spots crossing the wing, and at base about eleven small spots of 

 black; ocellus at anal angle black with two superimposed blue spots. 

 Antennae black annulated with white, tip cream color. 



Female nearly like the male but lighter in color ; on primaries an 

 orange band extending from ocellus to costa; three brown spots in cell 

 and two below. Secondaries with an orange line from ocellus to 

 costa. Wings below as in male. 



From two specimens, male and female, from La Yberia, 

 twenty miles from Baracoa, Cuba, September <i8th, 1909. 

 Named for Mr. Chas. T. Ramsden, the well known entomol- 

 ogist of Guantanamo, Cuba. The species is not closely re- 

 lated to any known to me. 



Megathymus neumoegeni stephensi, n. sub. sp. 



Male. Color of wings grayer than in neumoegeni. Upperside with 

 the markings as in the Huachuca mountains, Arizona, form of neu- 

 moegeni but cream color instead of orange yellow. 



On the underside of the secondaries the spots are larger than in 

 neumoegeni and more accentuated ; there is a large coalesced spot 

 near the center of the wing and eight spots parallel to the margin. 



This is a very striking-looking race. About thirty spec- 

 imens were taken by Mr. Frank Stephens, the well known 

 collector of California and Arizona mammals, birds, plants 



