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abdomen smoothly scaled. Fore wing 1 rather narrow, the apex rounded, the 

 termen obliquely curved ; vein 3 from angle of cell : 4, 5 stalked i 6 from upper 

 angle; 7, 8, 9, 10 stalked; 11 from cell. Hind wing with the cell about two- 

 thirds length of wing ; vein 3 from angle ; 4 absent ; 5 from well above angle ; 

 6, 7 from upper angle ; the terminal area on underside of male clothed with 

 rough scales. 



In key differs from Autichloris in the fore wing having veins 4, 5 stalked. 



*10G5 h. Mesocerea distincta. 



Tencer distincta, Roths. Nov. Zool. xviii. p. 43 (1911), & xix. p. 375, 

 pi. iii. f. 2. 



d . Head, thorax, and abdomen black-brown faintly tinged with 

 bine ; the back of head with two small scarlet spots ; teguhe with 

 yellow line at base ; metathorax edged with yellowish behind ; fore 

 coxae pale crimson ; abdomen with the extremity and ventral sur- 

 face crimson. Fore wing black-brown ; a small yellowish spot at 

 base ; a wedge-shaped hyaline patch in end of cell, elongate patch 

 below r the cell, and postmedial spots above and below vein (3 ; a few 

 yellowish scales on discocellulars and slight antemedial and medial 

 marks above vein 1 ; subterminal line very indistinct, yellowish, 

 excurved below vein 7 and at middle ; a small white apical patch. 

 Hind wing hyaline ; the veins black ; the costal and terminal areas 

 rather broadly black-brown, the termen greyish except towards apex ; 

 the underside with the termen broadly greyish. 



Sab. Surinam, Mareewym Valley, Arcewarwa Creek (Klages*), 

 type f 6 in Coll. Rothschild. Exp. 30 millim. 



*1065 c. Mesocerea apicalis. 



Tencer apicalis, Roths. Nov. Zool. xviii. p. 42 (1911), & xix. p, 375, 

 pi. iii. f. 1. 



J . Head, thorax, and abdomen black-brown, the vertex of head 

 orange-yellow r ; palpi in front and lower part of frons greyish ; fore 

 coxa? yellow ; pectus, legs, and ventral surface of abdomen greyish 

 brown. Fore wing black-brown ; a wedge-shaped whitish mark in 



Fig. 45. — Mesocerea apicalis, ^ . \. 



middle of cell and elongate mark below the cell ; a quadrate whitish 

 mark beyond the cell; the terminal area greyish, with black-brown 

 streaks above and below vein G beyond the whitish mark and 

 streaks in the interspaces towards termen. Hind wing semihyaline 

 white, the veins blackish, the terminal area broadly Mack-brown ; 



