Nevj Rhopalocera. 11 



FAMILY EEYCINIDiE. 



GENUS MESOSEMIA. Hiibner. 

 1. Mesosemia Jeziela, sp. nov. 



$. Aldd supra basi nigrse fascia media caeriiLea ; anticse 

 fasciola discali, posticse area apicali nivea ; area apicali 

 anticarum apiceque posticarum nigenimis : anticaj ocello 

 discoideo, posticje striolis interniptis basalibus lineaque 

 submarginali nigris : corpus nigrum : subtus luscfe, area 

 basali obscurius strigatse ; anticee ocello velut supra uigro 

 tripupillato, fasciaque postmedia nivea regulariter arcuata ; 

 posticse area apicali nivea, linea submarginali, alteraque 

 marginal! fuscis : corpus fuscum. 



Wings above black at the base, a central broad blue 

 band enclosing, in the frontwings, a black discoidal ocellus 

 and a curved discal white band, and interrupted in the 

 hindwings by a series of broken black lines ; frontwings 

 with the apical area black ; hindwings with the apical area 

 white, with apex and a slender submargmal line black. 



Wings heloiv brown, the basal area streaked with dark 

 brown ; frontumigs with black tripupillated discoidal 

 ocellus, the white band of the upper surface continued 

 across the wing ; hindwings with white apical area ; a 

 submarginal and a marginal line brown ; body brown : 

 expands 1 inch, 7 lines. 



Bogota. Coll. Druce. 



Belongs to the Philocles group of Mesosemia. 



Isshia, sp. nov. 



?. Alse supra fuscse, posticse et area basali anticarum 

 obscurius strigatse, anticse ocello magno nigro tripupillato ; 

 fascia postmedia regulariter arcuata alba, posticse area 

 externa alba, striis late separatis, postremo apud marginem 

 maculari : corpus fuscum : alse subtus velut supra at 

 paUidiores. 



Wings above brown ; the hindwings and the basal area 

 of the frontwings streaked with black brown ; the strise 

 of the hindwings becoming wider apart towards the outer 

 margin, the last of all being macular : fronttoings with a 

 large black tripupillated discoidal ocellus and a narrow 

 curved discal white band ; hindwings with the external 

 area white ; body brown ; wings below marked as above 

 but paler : expands 1 inch, 5 lines. 



Bogota. Coll. Druce. 



