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beyond the middle by a broad band of brown. Anterior 

 wing with a small black spot^ below the discal spot, 

 bordered with orange : the broad band of brown followed 

 by a band of paler colour. Posterior wing with the outer 

 margin angular. 



Exp. 1^ inch. 



Hah. — Gorge. 



Mesosemia Mustela. 



Female. Upperside. Rufous-brown. Anterior wing with 

 the discal spot black, marked with three minute white 

 spots : crossed on each side of it by two linear brown 

 bands : crossed beyond the middle by a band of white 

 from the costal margin to the anal angle, where it is 

 narrow, and bordered inwardly with brown : the wing 

 beyond it dark brown. Posterior wing angular at the 

 outer margin, crossed near the base by two linear bands, 

 and beyond the middle by four bands of brown, the two 

 inner bands nearly straight, the outer ones parallel to the 

 margin, which is also brown. 



Underside as above, except that the posterior wing has 

 a discal spot, that there are three linear bands beyond 

 the middle, and that the two bands parallel to the outer 

 margin are broken into spots. 



Exp, ly4- inch. 



Eah. — Gualaquisa. 



Nearly allied to M. Adida. 



Mesosemia Messala. 



Female. Upperside. Dark brown. Both wings crossed 

 beyond the middle by a common band of white, broad at 

 the costal margin of the anterior wing', narrow near the 

 anal angle : clouded and indistinct on the posterior wing, 

 where it does not extend to the first branch of the median 

 nervure. Anterior wing with an undefined discal black 

 spot marked with three minute white spots. 



Underside as above, except that the discal spot of the 

 anterior wing is blue, that the band of the posterior wing 

 is pale brown, and that there is a small black indistinct 

 discal spot. 



Exp. 1^ inch. 



Hah. — Gualaquisa. 



