MESOTHEN. 1-15 



*44o o. Mesothen inconspicuata. (Plate VII. fig. 22.) 



Loxopltlebia inconspicuata, Kaye, Entom. xliv. p. 145 (1911). 



5 . Head black-brown, the frons edged with white ; antennae 

 white towards tips ; thorax orange; pectus and legs black-brown, 

 the coxae with white points, the tarsi white above at base ; abdo- 

 men black-brown with a white line at base and sublateral white 

 streaks except at extremity. Fore wing hyaline, the veins and 

 margins black-brown expanding at base of costa and inner margin ; 

 a white point at base of costa with slight orange mark below it. 

 Hind wing hyaline, the veins and margins black-brown ; the basal 

 and inner areas black-brown. 



Hab. Br. Guiana, Potaro R. {Roberts), type f $ in Coll. Kaye. 

 Exp. 20 millim. 



*M5 b. Mesothen pyrrhina. (Plate VII. fig. 23.) 



Mesothen pyrrhina, D. Jones, Trans. Ent. Soc. 1914, ined. pi. i. f. 7. 



<S . Head black, the antennae with the shaft white above towards 

 tips ; palpi white at extremities of joints ; thorax fulvous orange, 

 the tegulse slightly white at tips ; pectus and legs black, the coxa? 

 with white patches, the tarsi white at base; abdomen black with 

 dorsal white point at base and subdorsal greyish streaks. Fore wing 

 hyaline, the veins and margins black ; a yellowish point at base ; 

 the terminal band expanding towards apex, where its inner edge is 

 somewhat dentate, and below vein 2. Hind wing hyaline, the 

 veins and margins black, the terminal band expanding somewhat 

 towards apex. 



$ . Fore wing with some black irroration in and beyond the cell 

 and the streaks in discal and submedian folds more diffused, the 

 terminal area with black streaks in the interspaces below veins 7 

 and 5. 



Hab. Brazil, Sao Paulo, Aracatuba (D. Jones), type f $ , 

 Santos Gruarujci, type f § in Coll. D. Jones. Exp., $ 22, 

 5 24 millim. 



446 a. Mesothen caeruleicorpus. (Plate VII. fig. 21.) 



Mesothen caeruleicorpus, Schaus, Pr. U.S. Nat. Mus. xxix. p. 185 (1905), 



Head and thorax black-brown ; palpi crimson at base ; coxae, 

 femora, and tibiae crimson ; abdomen metallic bine ; wings hyaline, 

 the veins and margins black. Fore wing with black discoidal bar; 

 the terminal band expanding widely at apex and moderately at 

 tornus. Hind wing with the terminal band expanding into a patch 

 at apex. 



Hab. Colombia, Quindin, Rio Toche, 1 J ; Bolivia, Yungas- 

 la-Paz, 3000 ft., type f 6 in U.S. Nat. Mus.; Peru, San Domingo 

 (Ockenden), 2 <$, 1 $. Exp. 32 millim. 



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