ERYC IN IDiE. 



MESOSEMIA. I. 



MESOSEMIA MEVANIA. 1, 2. 



Upperside. Female dark brown. Anterior wing from the base to the middle 

 (except the costal margin) of a glossy grey-blue. Crossed before the middle by a 

 curved line of black, and beyond the middle by a transverse band of white from the 

 costal margin to the anal angle, where it ends in a point. At the end of and within 

 the cell there is a black eye with three minute ]iu])ils of white, and between it and 

 the base and within the cell a curved transverse line of black, followed below- it, but 

 not continuously, by another transverse black line. Posterior wing glossy, grey-blue, 

 the inner and outer margins brown, the brown of the outer margin inwardly black. 

 Crossed before the middle by a scarcely-seen black hue. Near the apex an indistinct 

 linear spot of dirty white. 



Underside of a uniform light brown. Anterior wing with the white band as 

 above ; the eye surrounded by a rufous iris, the lines on each side of it as above, but 

 brown, their inner margins pale brown ; between the eye and the inner margin a second 

 triangular eye-like black spot with pale brown iris. Posterior wing crossed near 

 the Ijase and before the middle by lines of brown, inwardly paler, with between them a 

 small black eye, with white pupil and pale brown iris. 



Male as above, but luucli smaller. 



Expan. S 1-nj in., ? 2-^(j in. Hab. New Granada. 



In the Collection of W. C. Hewitson. 



MESOSEMIA LA:\IACHUS. 3, 4, 5, 0. 



M. Lamaclms, Bohdiical ]\h. Donbledai/, Brit. Miiseuin Cat. 



Upperside. Male brown. Anterior wing at the base slightly blue, crossed 

 transversely at the middle by a curved black line and from a little beyond this line 

 to the outer margin dark brown. The eye at the end of the cell with two white 

 pupils, the iris rufous. Posterior wing blue, crossed at the middle by a black line, 

 the maro;in black traversed bv a line of blue. 



Underside hght brown. Both wings crossed at the middle by a line of brown 

 inwardly rufous, and beyond this line by two bands of brown, the outer margin 

 rufous-brown ; both with the usual blacl: ;'yes with iris rufous ; large and with three 



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