646 MESOSEMTA. By Dr. A. Seitz. 



pafrueUs. the whole hindwing has been denominated patruelis ^SticJi. The $ exactly resembles above that of metope, it 

 has only in the middle of the border of the hindwing a little white, but the hindwings beneath are white almost 

 to their whole extent (not only in the distal part). $? with a strijie-shaped white brightening across the whole 



hettina. width of the wings are bettina Stick. I do not know them and doubt whether they belong to this species. 



jezieJa. M. jeziela Btlr. {= egabella [^J] Stgr.) (126 b, misprinted in jeziella). Similar to egabella, but the 



blue and white area of the forewing runs to the inner margin as a broad transverse band; the transverse strij^es 



sylvia. of the hindwing above incomplete. Colombia to Ecuador. — In sylvia Drc. (= thyene Stick.) (142 b) from the 



Rio Songo in Bolivia the light patches of the upper surface are blue, only in the middle striated white. — In 



limbafa. litTlbata Stick, the black border of the hindwing being otherwise broad only at the apex, is broad round the 



thyesies. whole Aving, and the 3 anterior transverse lines of the hindwing traverse the whole wing. ■ — thyestes Drc. (126 b) 

 from the Chanchamayo is the same, only the inner half of the band of the forewing is blue, the outer half white. 



clcf/ans. From Peru. — elegans Lathy (126 c) is above quite similar, but larger, the lines of the under surface finer, 

 duller, the forewing has no distinct second eye-spot below the central eye-spot, and the centre of the hind- 

 wing beneath is less sharply marked; from La Merced in Peru. Single and rare. 

 coea. M. coea Hhn. (= philocles $ Cr.. nyctea Hjfcjg.) (126 a, as coeca). According to Stichel (Riley i. 1.), 



this species being scarcely comprehensible from Cramer's coarse figure seems to be identical with traga Hew. 

 It resembles in both sexes pretty exactly the ?? of the preceding species, but the margin of the hindwings 

 is broader white. Moreover, on Hewitson's figure the left wings of the $ are differently marked from the 

 right ones, and the figure depicted as the ^ of it does at least not everywhere belong to the form re2:)resented 

 by the 9-figui'e. The lines traversing the white distal part of the hindwing are incomplete. Amazon. — 

 In/o. lato Stick, with more white in the hindwing is said to originate from the Rio Tonantins. — scotina Stick, and 

 laccrnaki '^cernata Stick., unknown to me, come from Guiana; they are said to be very similar to coea except little diffei'en- 

 ces in the marking. 

 mhios. M. minos Heiv. (136 a) the hindwings of which, in typical specimens, do not exhibit such a pure, 



but a more dirty white ground-colour than in our figure; but they vary at every habitat and show sometimes 

 •stouter, sometimes thinner transverse lines of the hindwing, occurring on the Lower Amazon and in Central 

 Brazil. Here the submarginal nebulous lines exhibit in the ^ beneath, in the 5 also above knotty swellings 

 before the middle of the border of all the wings, which are absent in the following species being otherwise 

 icirnphtluil- similar. In order to use the names stated, we may denominate as fa. tetrophthalma Stick, specimens with 

 ma. especially much, modica Stick, specimens with very little white on the upper surface of the wdngs; these forms, 

 however, are not bound to certain countries, but only to flying-places. 



mclaene. M. melaene Heic. (126 a). According to the author, this species differs from the allied traga (= coea) 



chiefly by the course of the (10) stripes of the hindwings. A more distinct mark is a shining, leaden-grey lustre 

 of the darker parts of the forewings, being very well reproduced by our figure. As in mines, the ground-colour 

 may be in the marginal part of the hindwings of a pure or dirty white, even almost brown, which is especially 

 prominent between the second and third most exterior stripe of the hindwings running in contrary curves. 

 piiigiiilcnta. Sometimes also the forewings exhibit a white transverse band before the marginal third (pinguilenta Stick.). 



lupcrca. Guiana, Amazon. — luperca Stick, described according to a single $ from Pachitea in Peru, is a species unknown 

 to me; it is said to have a light band running through both \\ings and a median eye-spot also on the hindwing. 



vio.'icra. M. mosera Here, looks almost exactly like a melaene, especially the greyish-green, slightly metallic 



lustre of the forewing which is lacking in the other Alesosemia except melaene, occiu-s here also in the q, but 

 the distal marginal part of the hindwing is not white, but as dark as the ground-coloin\ and the exterior stripes 

 of the hindwing are curved parallel to each other, not contrarily. By this the marking gets very much like 

 that of minos which, however, has distally lighter hindwings. 

 mclese. M. melese Hew. (126 b) resembles the preceding, though it is somewhat smaller and the $ has a 



distinct central eye-spot on the hindwings, whereas the $ of mosera exhibits only a dot. Unfortunately the 

 figure (according to a badly set specimen) shows the characteristic eye-spot of the hindwing partly covered 

 by the forewing. Para. 



mijonia. M. myotlia Hew., being likewise near to mosera and minos, is marked like the former, but beside 



the groinid-colour in the distal half of the hindwings, also the ground of the ellipse enclosing the eye-spot of 

 the forewing is brightened by yellow. Hewitsok himself believes that the species may be a $-form of pkihcles; 

 it is certainly nearly allied to it. From the Amazon. 



meihion. M. itiethioti Hew. likewise approximates the mimos-melaene-group, but it has a very different appearance 



owing to a rather broad white transverse band beginning broad at the costa and running almost straight towards 

 the anal angle of the forewings. The submarginal line of the hindwings exhibits the knots before the middle 

 of the border of all the wings very thick and distinct, above and beneath. In typical specimens, however, 

 the second and third exterior stripes of the hindwing are combined to a broad dark band by the space between 

 being filled up by dark brown. Such specimens occur from the northern coast of South America in the east 

 as far as to the south of the Amazon; in Peru the space between the second and third last stripes of the 

 hindwing is filled up broad in white whereby the white band of the forewing seems to run also through the 

 hindwing. The bands, however, vary in width already in quite closely situated habitats. 



