ERYCINID.'E MESOSEJIIA. 



MESOSEMIA METOPE. 64, 65. 



TJppERSiDE. Male dark broAvii. The black spot with one or two white dots. 

 The apex crossed by a triangular blue spot. Posterior wing brown at the base, the 

 rest white, with si.x short black bands on the costal margin. 



Underside brown. The black spot, with two and a half black bands between 

 it and the base, three bands between it and the outer margin. Crossed near the 

 outer margin by a band of lilac-white, traversed by a broken black line. Posterior 

 wing brown to the middle, white beyond it. Crossed by eight black bands. A black 

 spot between the third and fourth bands ; the seventh band broken, with, between it 

 and the eighth, a short broad band on the costal margin ; the outer mai'gin black. 



Expan. lfi)iii- Hab. Amazon. 



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



MESOSEMIA MELPIA. 06, 07. 



Upperside. Male purple-brov>n. The outer margins rufous, traversed by a 

 black line, the central black spot with one dot of white. 



Underside brown. The black spot with three dots of white, and bordered on 

 each side by three bands of brown. Crossed beyond the middle by a broad band of 

 brown, followed by a band of black spots, the middle spot larger than the rest. 

 Posterior wing crossed by eight bands, the third baud followed by a wide space 

 marked with brown spots, the fourth, lifth, and sixth bands curved and angular (in 

 some examples these bands are straight), succeeded by a Iwoad broken band and a 

 submarginal band of black spots, the middle spot largest and round. 



Female scarcely differs on either side from the underside of the male. 



Expan. Ij^^f, in. Hab. Amazon. 



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



MESOSEMIA IBYCUS. OS, 69. 



M. Ibycus, Douhleday, Brit. Mm. List. 



Upperside. Male dark brown. The black spot of the anterior wing with 

 three white dots. Posterior wing with a brown spot before the middle. Both wings 

 with some indistinct bands between the spots and the base. Anterior wing with one 

 narrow band beyond the spot, posterior wing with two. Both wings with a broad 

 band and a submarginal narrow zig-zag band. 



Underside as above, but lighter. 



Female differs above in being of a lighter brown, below it is the same. 



Expan. 1 in. Hab. Amazon. 



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



