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 MESOSEMIA. VII. 



MESOSEMIA MYONIA. 59, CO. 



Upperside. Female liglit grey -brown. Anterior \Ying with the black spot 

 central, with three dots of white, and round it a rufous space, bordered by two black 

 lines. Crossed transversely beyond the black spot by two dirty white bands, the outer 

 band traversed by a black line. 



Posterior wing crossed by nine bands of brown, the third band from the base 

 followed by a small black spot, the seventh broader than the rest. 



Underside marked as above, the posterior wing nearly white. 

 Expan. I2I) in. Hab. Amazon. 



lu the Collection of the British Museum. 

 This is probably onl}- a variety of Pliilocles. 



MESOSEMIA PHILOCLES. Var. Gl, 62, 63. 



P. P/iilocIes Linn. — Cramer, PI. 184. 



Upperside. Male blue-black. The usual black spot (with three white dots) 

 touching a large triangidar spot of light blue. Posterior wing black at the base, then 

 blue to the middle, the outer half white, crossed by very faint blue bands (seen 

 through), the costal margin with six short black lines. 



Underside rufous-brown, the eye-like spot with a small black spot below it, 

 both bordered with three black lines. Crossed transversely beyond the middle by a 

 band of lilac-white, traversed by a brown line. Posterior wing crossed by eight bands 

 of brown, the tifth broken into spots ; the outer margin broadly white. 



The female scarcely differs on cither side from the underside of the male. 



Expan. In) ™- Hab. Amazon. 



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



This species is figured here, to enable me to give a beautiful variety. 



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