ME V A MA. 287 



*1034 a. Mevania basalis. (Plate XVI. fig. 8.) 



Nelo basalis, Wlk. xxxi. 184 (1864). 

 Microgiton latona, Druce, P. Z. S. 1890, p. 499. 



<$ . Black ; neck orange ; patagia with some blue scales ; ab- 

 domen with metallic blue segmental bands. Fore wing with 

 two blue points at base ; a broad oblique orange-yellow medial band 

 with rather sinuous outer edge. Hind wing with large oblique 

 orange-yellow triangular patch from medial part of costa to vein 2 

 near termen. Underside with blue suffusion on basal area ; fore 

 wing with diffused blue patch beyond lower angle of cell ; hind 

 wing with the broad yellow band reaching inner margin just 

 above tornus. 



Hind wing with vein 5 from just above angle of cell. 



ILab. Colombia, Bogota, 1 6 type; Ecuador, Intaj (Buckley), 

 type t tj latona in Cull Joicey. Exp. 30 millim. 



1034 b. Mevania larissa, 



Microgiton larissa, Druce, P. Z. S. 1890, p. 499. 



Mevania quadricolor, Hmpsn. Cat, Lep. Phal. B. M. i. p. 467, fig. 253. 



J . Head and thorax black-brown suffused with metallic blue ; 

 neck witli orange ring ; legs streaked with white ; abdomen black- 

 brown with dorsal series of metallic blue bands, the ventral surface 

 with the basal half white. Fore wing black-brown ; some metallic 

 blue at base of vein 1 ; an obliquely curved pale yellow band from 

 just below middle of costa to vein 1. Hind wing pale yellow ; 

 some brown suffusion at base ; the terminal area broadly brown, 

 especially towards costa. Underside of fore whig "with the base 

 suffused with metallic blue, the retinaculum and a streak on base 

 of vein 1 white ; hind wing with brown patch suffused with 

 metallic blue at base of costa. 



Hob. Ecuador, Banos (Stewart), 1 J . Exp. 32 millim. 

 Type f $ bi Coll. Joicey. 



1034. Mevania quadricolor. (Plate XVI. fig. 9.) 



1034 c. Mevania albofasciata. (Plate XVI. fig. 10.) 



Propyria albofasciata, Eoths. Nov. Zool. xix. p. 183 (1912). 



2 . Head and thorax black-brown with some metallic blue 

 suffusion; neck with yellow ring; palpi yellow at base; abdomen 

 black-brown with segmental metallic blue dorsal bands. Fore 

 wing black-brown ; some metallic blue at base ; an oblique while 

 medial band from just below costa to inner margin. Hind wing 

 black-brown with oblique conical white patch from middle of 

 costa to just below vein 2. Underside of both wings with the 



