DINIA. MESOLASIA. 339 



Panama, Chiriqui (Champloii) : Godraau-Salvin Coll.; Honduras, 

 Veragua; Brazil, Rio Janeiro, ^'a;^;. 40 millim. 



740. Dinia mena. 



Eunomia mena, Hubn. Samuil. ex. Scbmett. ii. (1827) ; Kii'by, Oat. Het. 



p. 152. 

 GlaiKopis saucia, Wlk. i. I'JO (1854) ; Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 152. 



(S . Head, thorax, aud abdomen black-brown, the last with the 

 lateral tufts bright crimson ; tegulse Avith white spots ; patagia 

 streaked with white ; coxos white ; wings hj-aline, the veins and 

 margins black-brown. Fore wing with short crimson streaks below 

 base of costa and median nervure and above vein 1 ; a black fascia 

 on inner margin with a crimson streak on its medial portion ; a 

 discocellular black bar. Hind wing with terminal black band 

 varying somewhat in width ani with waved inner edge. 



2 without white on coxsc. 



Some specimens have crimson bands on median segments of 

 abdomen, 



Hab. Colombia, type .sfMtcia, Bogota ( F(3ri7f«*«, BucJdey) ; Vene- 

 >5UELA ; Trinidad (Caraccioh); Brazil. Exjj. 40 millim. 



747. Binia subapicalis. (Plate XII. fig. 12.) 



Glaucopis subapicalis, Wlk. i. 190 (1854) ; Kirby, Cat. Het- p. 152. 

 Lasioprocta merra, Wallengr. Wien. Eut. Mon. iv. p. 41 (1860) ; Kirby, 

 Cat. Het. p. 151. 



Head, thorax, aud abdomen black, the last with three crimson 

 dorsal bands on medial segments ; wings hyaline, the veins, and 

 margins rather broadly, black. Fore wing with slight crimson 

 streaks below base of costa and on inner margin ; a black disco- 

 celhilar bar conjoined to the costal fascia ; the terminal band with 

 minutely waved inner edge dentate at vein 2 ; the basal half of 

 inner margin orange below, slightly showing through to upper side. 

 Hind wing with the medial part of costa streaked with orange ; 

 the terminal black band very wide and with waved inner edge. 



Hah. Peru, Lima, type, Callao {J. ./. WaJlccr). Exp. 40 millim. 

 Typet merra in ifus. Stockholm. 



Genus MESOLASIA, nov. 



Type, M. hmmorrhoidalis. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi obliquely upturned, the 3rd joint short and 

 BOinewhat porrect ; antennie bipectinate, with short branches dilated at extremity, 

 the shaft fringed above with thick hair at middle ; bead and thorax clothed 

 with rough hair ; tibiae with the spurs short. Fore wing with vein 3 from well 

 before angle of cell ; '\, 5 from angle ; 6 from upper angle ; 7, 8. 9, 10; 1 1 stalked. 

 Hind wing with the cell very long; vein 3 from before angle; 5 from just above 

 angle ; 7 from before upper angle. 



Sect. I. Abdomen clothed with rough hair. 



A. Abdomen with basal crimson band hcumorrhoidalis. 



B. Abdomen without basal crimson baud jmiUa. 



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