340 SYNTOMID^, 



748. Mesolasia hsemorrlioidalis. 



S2)hi>i.v hcemorrhoidaiiti, Stoll, Suppl. Cram. pi. 12. f. 1 (ITfO) ; Druco, BioL 



Centr.-Am., Het. i. p. 64 ; Kirbv, Cat. Het. p. 152. 

 Mthria hamorrhusa, Hiibn. Verz. p. 120 (1827). 



(S . Head and thorax black ; palpi white below ; shoulders with 

 large white spots ; coxae white ; abdomen with the 1st and last 

 four segments crimson, the medial segments black ; wings h}-aline, 

 the veins and margins broadly black. Fore wing with black 

 discocellular band from the costal fascia to or to just above vein 2,. 

 the terminal band expanding at vein 2, its inner edge waved. 



Fig. 159. — Me&olasia hamorrhoidalis, (^ . \. 



Hind wing with discocellular band conjoined to the costal fascia^ 

 separated from or conjoined to the apical part of terminal band, 

 which expands into dentate marks towards tornus. 



2 without white on palpi and fore coxfe. 



Hah. Be. Hondukas (Blancaneau.r), 1 ? Godman-Salvin Coll. ;: 

 Ecuador ; Brazil, Eio Janeiro. Ex2-). 54 millim. 



749. Mesolasia paula. (Plate XIII. fig. 15.) 



jEthria 2Mula, Scliaus, P. Z. S. 1894, p. 227. 



5 . Black ; shoulders with white spots ; abdomen with the last 

 three segments crimson above. Fore wing with the interspaces 

 hyaline, leaving broad black margins ; a discoidal spot conjoined to 

 the costa and extending almost down to vein 2 ; the interspace* 

 between veins 4 and 7 with fine streaks from terminal band, the one 

 above 5 extending to cell; the terminal band expanding above 

 tornus. Hind wing with the interspaces hyaline, leaving broad 

 black margins, the terminal band expanding widely on apical area 

 and towards tornus. 



Hah. Brazil, ?ao Paulo, Casa Branca, 1 $ . E.vj>. 54 millim. 

 Type t in Coll. Schaus. 



Sect. II. Abdomen smoothly scaled. 



A. Hind wing with two subapical hyaline spots vielanobasis. 



B. Hind wing without subapical hyaline spots omata. 



750. Mesolasia melanobasis. (Plate XIII. fig. 8.) 



Hamaterion mclanobasis, Druce, A. M. N. H. (6) xx. p. 304 (1897). 

 Head and thorax black ; abdomen black, the last three segments 



