ERY( INIDiE MESOSEMIA. 



a I)lack line ; a large quadrate black spot below it. Posterior wing with an indistinct 

 eye-like spot. Both wings with a transverse band of black between the spots and the 

 base. (Posterior wing with a second short band.) Both with four bands of black 

 between the spots and the outer margin, the submarginal band of the posterior wing 

 thickened at the middle. 



Underside as above, except that it is light brown, that the eye-like spots of both 

 wings are in a rufous circle, and the submarginal band of both wings broken into 

 spots, the middle spot of each round and distinct. 



Expan. 1 1"*^ in. Hab. Amazon, 

 lu the Collection of the British Museum. 



MESOSEMIA MELiENE. 54, 55. 



UrPERSiDE. Male brown, slightly tinted with lilac. The black spot central, 

 with three white dots and a rufous circle, below it a bifid brown spot ; between it 

 and the base two broken transverse black bands ; between it, and the outer margin 

 which is brown, four transverse bands. Posterior wing with nine transverse bands, 

 the space between the sixth and seventh band slightly rufous, the wing beyond it 

 white. 



Underside as above, but lighter; the space between the second and third 

 band (counting from the base) of the i)osterior wing, with two minute bhick spots. 

 Expan. l^-^in. Hab. Amazon. 



Very nearly allied to M. Traga (figs. 4-2, 4.3, 44), but differs from it considerably in the position 

 of the transverse bands of the posterior wing. 



MESOSEMIA MENOETES. 56, 57, 58. 



Upperside. Male purple. The black spot of the anterior wing central, with 

 three white dots. The basal half of both wings black. Both wings crossed beyond 

 the middle by two broad black bands, and tin obscure submarginal band. 



Underside as above, except that it is Hght brown, undulated with light yellow, 

 that both wings have a submarginal black line marked in the middle of the posterior 

 wing by a round black spot. 



Female light grey-brown, undulated with light yellow, the bands as in the male ; 

 the submarginal band of the posterior wing distinctly marked in its middle by a large 

 round black spot. Underside as above, and as in the male. 



Expan. l/o in. Iltxb. Amazon. 



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



It will be seen by the habitats given here and throughout this work, how very much we are 

 indebted to the perseverance of Mr. Bates. 



