ERYCINIDiE MESOSEMIA. 



MESOSEMIA MISIPSA. 33, 34, 35. 



Upperside. Male silvery-blue with transverse bands of black. Anterior wing with the 

 black spot central, marked with a single dot of ■white. Crossed before the black spot bv two 

 bands of black ; after it by four, the first pair of which are angular, the other two curved and 

 parallel to the outer margin. Posterior wing with a black spot on the middle of the costal 

 margin, followed by four transverse black bands. The outer margin of both wings brown, the 

 fringe rufous. 



Underside (33) light brown, tlie bands as above, except that the jjosterior wing has eight 

 transverse bands ; the fourth from the base broadest, marked with two white spots, each with a 

 dot of brown. 



Female light grey-white ; the bands light brown. Anterior wing with six bands. Posterior 

 wing with eight ; the space between the third and fourth bands from the base marked by two 

 or three small dots of brown. Underside as above, except that the black spot has three white 

 dots in both sexes. 



Expan. li\) in. Hab. Amazon. 



In tlie CoUectious of W. W. Sauuders and W. C. Hewitson. 



MESOSEMIA IDOTEA. 30, 37. 



$ Slesosemia Idotea, Westw., Gen. Binr. Lej)., text ib5. (185 1 •) 

 i BiopUhalma marita, Boisd. Ilerrich-Schceffer, Lep. Ex. fig. 42. (1853.) 



Upperside. Male lilac, with numerous transverse bands. Anterior wing with the usual 

 black spot before the middle, marked with ttiree dots of white ; a triangular spot below it ; two 

 bands between it and the base, four after it (the first curving outwards, when it meets the inner 

 margin) ; and the outer margin all brown. Posterior wing with seven bands and a narrow outer 

 margin brown. 



Underside does not differ, except that the penultimate band of the posterior wing is 

 undulated. 



Female grey or white. Anterior wing with six bands, and the outer margin brown. Pos- 

 terior wing with seven bands, and the outer margin brown. The fringe of Ijoth wings white. 

 Underside as above, except that the third band from the base of the posterior wing is marked by 

 a black spot. 



Expan. lo-Q to Ij^q in. Hab. Amazon. 



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



The male of this species is well figured by Herrich-Schicffer. I have repealed it here to complete the group. 

 The females of the three species just described, although bearing a strong resemblance to each other, may be readily 

 known by the position of the transverse band which immediately follows the black spot of the anterior wing. In 

 M. Misipsa the band, after passing round the spot, meets the inner margin at an inclination towards the base of the 

 wing. In M. Idotea it meets the same margin inclining outwards, and in BI. Macaris it meets the margin nearly at 

 a rii^ht annle. 



MESOSEMIA EUMENUS. $ 3S. 



^ P. Eumene. Cramer, j)l. 92. 

 I have figured the female of this species to show its likeness to the preceding. 



