Ncio Rhopalocera. 11 



FAMILY ERYCINIDJG. 



GENUS MESOSEMIA. Buhner. 

 1. Mesosemia Jeziela, sp. nov. 



^. Alse supra basi nigrae fascia media caerulea ; anticse 

 fasciola discali, postic?e area apicali nivea ; area apicali 

 anticarum apiceque posticarum nigerrimis : anticte ocello 

 discoideo, postica3 striolis interruptis basalibus lineaque 

 submarginali iiigris : corpus nigrum : subtus fuscse, area 

 basali obscurius strigatse ; auticse ocello velut supra nigro 

 tripupillato, fasciaque postmedia nivea regulariter arcuata ; 

 posticse area apicali nivea, linea submarginali, alteraque 

 marginali fuscis : corpus fuscum. 



Wings above black at the base, a central broad blue 

 band enclosing, in the frontwings, a black discoidal ocellus 

 and a curved discal white band, and interrupted in the 

 hindwings by a series of broken black lines ; frontwings 

 with the apical area black ; hindwings with the apical area 

 white, with apex and a slender submarginal line black. 



Wings helow brown, the basal area streaked with dark 

 brown ; frontwings with black tripupillated discoidal 

 ocellus, the white band of the upper surface continued 

 across the wing ; hinclvjings with white apical area ; a 

 submarginal and a marginal line brown ; body brown : 

 expands 1 inch, 7 lines. 



Bogota. Coll. Druce. 



Belongs to the Fhilocles group of Mesosemia. 



2. Mesosemia IssJiia, sp. nov. 



$. Alse supra fuscse, posticse et area basali anticarum 

 obscurius strigatse, anticse ocello magno nigro tripupillato ; 

 fascia postmedia regulariter arcuata alba, posticse area 

 externa alba, striis late separatis, postremo apud marginem 

 maculari : corpus fuscum : alse subtus velut supra at 

 pallidiores. 



Wings above brown ; the hindwings and the basal area 

 of the frontwings streaked with black brown ; the striae 

 of the hindwings becoming wider apart towards the outer 

 margin, the last of all being macular : frontivings with a 

 large black tripupillated discoidal ocellus and a narrow 

 curved discal white band ; hindwings with the external 

 area white ; body brown ; wings below marked as above 

 but paler : expands 1 inch, 5 lines. 



Bogota. Coll. Druce. 



