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MESOSEMIA IX. 



MESOSEMIA MARSENA. SO. 



Upperside. Female, dark brown. Anterior wing with the base, which is 

 marked by three black spots, and a broad transverse liand beyond the middle (which 

 is divided into eight parts by the nervures) transparent lilac-white : the discal spot 

 black, triangnlar, bordered by orange and marked by three minnte white spots ; two 

 submarginal bands of white spots : the first Ijand of eight spots, the outer band of 

 three. Posterior wing transparent lilac-white from the base to beyond the middle : 

 the nei'vures black. 



Underside as above, except that both wings have the nervures rufous, and that 

 the posterior wing lias a marginal band of white spots. 



Exp. 2^0 iiiches. Hab. Ecuador. (Buckley.) 



A most elegant species, nearest to M. Phelina of Felder. 



MESOSEMIA MARSIDIA. 81, S2. 



Upperside. ]\Iale, dark brown. Anterior wing with a large black discal spot, 

 marked by three minute spots and bordered with brick-red : crossed beyond the 

 middle by a straight transverse band of white ; two minute white spots near the 

 apex and anal angle. Posterior wing crossed by a submarginal band of very 

 indistinct lunular spots : a minute white spot at the apex. 



Underside as above, except that the nervures of both wings are rufous towards 

 the outer margin, that the anterior wing has a red band across the cell, a submarginal 

 series of white spots and three or four similar spots upon the margin, and that the 

 posterior wing has a marginal series of white spots. 



Female rufous-brown, darker near the outer margins : both wings crossed by a 

 common band of white, broadest on the anterior wing, not reaching the anal angle 

 of the posterior wing. Anterior wing with the discal and subapical spots as in the 

 male : on the underside the anterior wing has the marginal and submarginal white 

 spots of the male : the posterior wing has two or three marginal white spots. 



Exp. 2 inches. Hab. Ecuador. (Buckley.) 



A variety of the female is without the white band of the posterior wing. 



MESOSEMIA REBA. 83, 84. 



Upperside. Male, dark blue tinted with green. Both wings crossed near the 

 base by a band (broken on the anterior wing), both crossed beyond the middle by a 

 second band and also by a submarginal band all black: the outer margin brown. 

 Anterior wing with a black discal spot marked by tw'o minute white spots : crossed 

 at the second band by a short band of white. 



Underside rufous-brown. Both wings crossed before the middle by an undu- 

 lated band of brown, its outer border rufous : both crossed beyond the middle by a 

 similar band (angular on the anterior wing), its inner border rufous : both crossed by 

 a submarginal band of brown si)ots bordered inwardly with paler colour. Anterior 

 wing with the discal spot bordered with rufous-orange : the white band broader and 

 longer, bordered outwardly with dark brown. Posterior wing with a small black 



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