MESOTHEN. 141 



ventral surface orange-yellow with black snblateral spots on 4th 

 and 5th segments and bands on the two following segments. 

 Fore wing hyaline, the veins and margins narrowly black ; a small 

 orange-yellow spot at base and a streak below costa from before 

 middle to near apex ; the terminal black line expanding into a 

 patch at apex. Hind wing hyaline, tiie veins and margins 

 narrowly black. 



llnb. Colombia, Monte Tolima (Fuss/), type f c? m Coll, 

 Dognrn. Exp. 32 millim. 



*442«. Mesothen aurata. (Plate VII. fig. 16.) 

 Mesoihen aurata, Dogn. Mem. Soc. Ent. Belg. xxii. p. 1 (1913). 



5 . Head black, the frons white ; thorax orange, the pro- and 

 metathorax with black spots ; the extremities of the tibiae and the 

 tarsi black; abdomen orange with dorsal series of black spots, 

 small on basal and penultimate segments, sublateral spots on' 4th, 

 5th, and 7th segments, and ventral liars on four basal segments. 

 Fore wing hyaline, the veins and margins black ; some orange 

 at base ; a narrow black discoidal bar conjoined to the costal area ; 

 the" terminal band expanding widely on apical area and into a 

 small dentate mark at vein 2. Hind wing hyaline, the veins and 

 margins black ; some orange at base of costa and the inner margin 

 orange, the rest of the inner area occupied by a wedge-shaped 

 Mack patch; the terminal band expanding slightly towards apex. 



Hub. Colombia, Canon del Tolima {Fassl), type f 2 m Coll. 

 Dognin. ~Exp. 22 millim. 



442 b. Mesothen occendeni. (Plate VII. fig. 17.) 



Mesoihen ockendeni, Druce, A. M. N. H. (7) xv. p. 460 (1905). 



Head black with white spots at sides of frons and base of antenna 3 ; 

 thorax and abdomen scarlet ; shoulders and metathorax with black 

 sjKits ; pectus and legs black with some white at base of fore 

 coxae ; abdomen with dorsal and lateral series of black spots, 

 the extremity black. Fore wing hyaline, the veins and margins 

 black ; a small scarlet patch at base; the terminal band expanding 

 widely at apex and tornus. Hind wing hyaline, the veins and 

 margins black ; the inner area broadly black, the margin fringed 

 with scarlet hair; the terminal band expanding rather widely at 

 apex. 



Hal. S.E. Peru, St. Domingo, 5000 ft. (OcJcenden), 2 cS , 

 2 2 , cotype. JExp. 42 millim. 



*442c. Mesothen aurantiaca. (Plate VII. tig. 18.) 



Menothen aurantiaca, Dogn. Ann. Soc. Ent. Belg. 1. p. 178 (1906). 



5 . Head black ; frons, two spots on vertex of head, and tips of 

 antenna' white ; thorax and abdomen deep orange, pro- and nieso- 



