E R Y C I N I D jE. 

 MESOSEMIA. IV. 



MESOSEMIA MACELLA. 28, 29, 30. 



Upperside. Male, brown with transverse bands of black. Both wings dark brown from 

 the base to the middle, lighter beyond it ; with throe transverse oblique bands, and the outer 

 margin dark brown. The black spot of the anterior wing with two white dots. 



Underside as above, except that it is of a uniform light brown ; that the anterior wing has 

 a small brown spot below the black spot ; that the posterior wing has a spot of black with two 

 white dots before the middle. 



Female light brown. Both wings crossed beyond the middle l)y three bands of dark 

 brown ; the outer margin also brown. Underside (tig. -i^)) as in the male, but without the small 

 brown spot on the anterior wing. 



Expan. 1^ in. Ilab. Amazon. 



In the Collections of W. W. Saunders anil W. C. Hewitson. 



MESOSEMIA MACARIS. 31, 32. 



UppERSiDE. Male light blue, with transverse bands of black. Anterior wing with the 

 inner margin convex. The black spot hcfori' the middle marked with tico white dots, followed by 

 four curved transverse equidistant bands of black ; the first three bands imperfect. The outer 

 margin black. Posterior wing with the costal margin white and polished. Two subraarginal 

 bands and the outer margin black. 



Underside grey. Anterior wing with six bands ; two before and four after the lilack 

 spot. Posterior wing with seven; the third band from the base broadest and marked with a 

 black dot between two white ones. 



Female light grey-brown. Anterior wing with six transverse bauds ; posterior wing with 

 seven ; together with the outer margin of both brown. Underside exactly as above, except that 

 the third band of the posterior wing has the black and wliite dots as ui the male. 



Expan. Ig-Q ill- Hab. Amazon. 



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



Were it not that — with few exceptions — themidersides of the sexes differ very little, the study of these small 

 species would he verv dillicult. As a general rule the uiiperside of the female is closely copied on the underside of 

 the male 



