and a neio genus of Diurnal Lepidoptera. 429 



? Var. band of primaries broader ; a tawny hastate 

 spot on first median interspace ; interuo-discal area broader 

 and darker ; secondaries with broad, brown outer maro-in 

 as in preceding species; central area pale internally ; Its 

 outer three-fourths dark tawny ; primaries below with 

 discoidal cell dark brown : expanse 2 inches, 8 lines. 



Hab. — Angola {J. J. Monteiro). 



Fam. ERYCINIDiE. 



Subfam. Nemeoeiin^. 



Genus Mesosemia, Hiibner. 



1. Mesosemia otrocuUs, n. sp. 



$ "Wings above Avitli basal three-fifths greyish-brown ; 

 a curved, continuous, tolerably broad, white band, tapering 

 at anal angle of secondaries ; external area black-brown ; 

 primaries ith an irregular, broad, central, dark-brown 

 band, edged externally with testaceous and blackish, and 

 containing two conspicuous ocelloid black spots, one at 

 end of cell, tripupillate, with narrow testaceous iris, the 

 other just below origin of first median nervule minutely 

 imipupillate, with pale-brown iris ; secondaries with broad 

 irregular band as in primaries, containing one central, 

 small, unipupillate ocellus : body greyish-brown : wings 

 below irrorated with white ; two large conspicuous ocelli 

 in central band of secondaries : body pale greyish-brown : 

 expanse 1 inch, 9 lines. 



Hah. — Pebas {Hauxicell), Ecuador. 



Allied to M. Si/la of Boisduval. 



2. 3Iesosemia trilineata, n. sp. 



2 Allied to M. Thymetina, white band of primaries 

 more oblique and widening from costa to internal margin, 

 edged externally towards external angle with lilacine grey; 

 secondaries with white band slightly broader, more arched, 

 and beyond it a distinct lilacine grey streak: expanse 

 1 inch, 9 lines. 



Hah. — Amazons. 



Allied to M. Thymetina and M. Mceana. 

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