ERYCINIDiE — MESOSEMIA. 



pupils of blue on the anterior wing, small and with one pupil on the posterior wing. 

 Both with a broken transverse line of brown, inwardly rufons, between the eyes and 

 the base. Posterior wing with a very tine line of white between each of the nervules 

 near the outer margin. 



Pemalc lighter brown. The broad outer margin of the anterior wing traversed 

 transversely by a line of lilac-white. Posterior wing with a broad band of brown 

 between the central transverse black line and the outer margin. 



Expan. l^ in. Ilab. Honduras. 



In the Collections of W. W. Sauiulers. There is a variety of this species in the collection of 

 Dr. Boisduval with the Ms. name of Azurea. 



MESOSEMIA MOESIA. 7, S. 



Upperside. Male light purple-brown. Both wings crossed at the middle by a 

 line of black and beyond it by a broad band of brown ; both with a snbmarginal 

 black line with a black spot at its middle, largest on the posterior wing. Anterior 

 wing with the black eye with three jjupils of white, and between it and the base a 

 waved black line. 



Underside as above, but light brown, xmdulated throughout with rufous-brown. 

 The black submarginal line broken into spots. 



Expan. 1^0 in. llab. Brazil. 



In the Collection of the British Museum. 



MESOSEMIA TELEGONE. 9, 10. 



B'lopldahiia Teleyoiie, Boisd. Spec. Gen. FJafe'll. 



Upperside. Male brown. Anterior wing slightly blue on the inner margin 

 near the base ; crossed at the middle Ijy a line of black followed immediately by an 

 indistinct line of lilac-white. The usual black eye with two pupils of blue, with 

 between it and the base an indistinct broken black hue. Posterior wing crossed by a 

 broken line near the base, a line at the middle, and a line l^etween it and the outer 

 margin all black. (These last two lines vary in their distance from each other.) 

 The outer margin broadly brown. 



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

 inwardly lighter followed by a broad brown band ; the margins also brown. Both with 

 the usual eye with rufons iris ; three pupils of blue on the eye of the anterior Aving and 

 one on that of the posterior wing, both surrounded with several indistinct lines. A 

 broken transverse line between them and the base. Anterior wing with an indistinct 

 black sjjot with rtifous margin between the eye and the inner margin. 



Expan. l-/o in. Hab. 



In the Collections of W. W. Saunders and W. C. Hewitsou. 



I have hesitated in separating this species and lamachus : they however ditier considerably on the 

 underside in the curve of the central black line and in the relative breadthof the spacewhich surrounds 

 the eye. 



