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XXIV. Notes on some Central and South American 

 Erycinidse, with clescriptions of 7iew species. By 

 Frederick Du Cane Godman, D.C.L., F.R.S., etc. 



[Read October 7th, 1903,] 



Plates XX, XXI, XXII, and XXIII. 



This paper includes descriptions of various South American 

 Erycinida) that have been accumulating for many years in 

 my collection. The opportunity is also taken to correct 

 certain synonymy, and of figuring a few forms of which one 

 sex only was previously known, or which had been figured 

 from specimens in bad condition. 



Mr. Schaus [Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus. xxiv, pp. 897-406 

 (1902)] has recently described twenty-six species of this 

 group from Central or South America. One of these 

 {Eurygona tarinta) I had already characterized in MS., 

 and a figure of this insect and three others are added 

 in the accompanying plates. 



Mesosemia phage, sp. n. (Plate XX, fig. 1,^.) 



^ . Alls nigro-fuscis, anticis ocello nigro ad cellulse fineni albo tri- 

 punctato, lineis qiiatuor transversis, una ad basin, secunda et tertia 

 ultra earn ocelluni includentibus, quarta arciiata latiore a costs ante 

 apicem ad angulum analem extendente, viridibus (aut cscruleis) ; 

 posticis lineis "angustis septem transversis coloris ejusdem ; subtus 

 griseis, anticis ocello ut supra sed linea ochracea circumcincta, lineis 

 undulatis fuscis per alarum medium, altera latiore margin! exteriori 

 propiore ; posticis lineis angustis variis undulatis coloris ejusdem, 

 anticis et posticis macula in medio marginis externi nigra, ilia in 

 posticis multo majore. 



Rah. British Guiana, Roraima, Quonga ( Whitely). 



Four specimens from Guiana, all males, three from 

 Roraima and one from Quonga. The stripes crossing the 

 wings seen in certain lights are of an emerald green 

 colour, while in other positions they are of a dark blue. 

 Allied to M. hclla, Sharpe, but may be distinguished by 

 having more transverse bands on the upper side. 



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