ERYCINID-E. MESOSEMIA. 



discal spot marked by one minute white spot : crossed near the outer margin by some 

 indistinct Avhite spots. 



Exp. l-^^j inch. Hab. Ecuador. (Buckley.) 



MESOSEMIA ZOREA. 85, 80. 



Upperside. Male, green-blue, with the outer margins broadly dark brown. 

 Anterior wing with the i)lack discal spot marked by two white dots : a transverse 

 black liand on each side of it. Posterior wing with a black line and sjjot on the 

 costal maraiin before its middle and a transverse band of black at the middle . 



Underside grey-brown. Both wings with the discal black spots each marked 

 by two dots of white, the border broadly rufous : both with a short double band 

 towards the base broken on the anterior wing : both crossed beyond the spots by a 

 pale grey band bordered outwardly with In'own : both crossed beyond the middle by a 

 l)road band of brown bordered on both sides with grey. Anterior wing with a sub- 

 marginal brown band. Posterior wing with a series of brown spots crowned with 

 paler colour. 



Eemale on both sides as on the underside of the male. 



Exp. 1^ inch. Hab. Ecuador. (Buckley). 



Nearest to M. Meeda of Hewitson. 



MESOSEMIA LATIFASCIATA. 87. 



Upperside. Male, rufous-brown near the base, dark brown near the outer 

 margins. Both wings crossed by a continuous very broad immaculate white band. 

 Anterior wing with a small black almost triangular discal spot bordered with orange. 



Underside as above. 



Eemale like the male, e.\cept that it is larger and of a paler brown. 



Exp. $ \¥q, S 2-nj inches. Hab. Ecuador. (Buckley.) 



MESOSEMIA LORUHAMA. 88, 89. 



Upperside. Male, brilliant blue, tinted with green : the margins brown. 

 Anterior wing with a large l)lack discal spot marked by three minute white spots, 

 a black spot below it, and on each side of them a transverse black linear band : the 

 line between them and the base broken where it crosses the median nervure : crossed 

 beyond the middle by a narrow straight short band of white : the apex broadly dark 

 brown. Posterior wing with a black linear spot at the middle of the costal margin. 



Underside dark brown. Anterior wing with the spots and lines as above, 

 except that the spots are bordered with orange and the lines inwardly with paler 

 brown. Posterior wing with a discal spot marked by two minute white spots, a dark 

 brown transverse band bordered inwardly with paler brown on each side of it : a 

 submarginal band of dark brown spots bordered above with white. 



Eemale like the male, except that the white band of the anterior wing is much 

 broader and extends from the costal margin to the anal angle : that the outer margin 

 of the posterior wing is broadly brown and marked at the apex by a pale linear spot. 



Exp. H^- inch. Hab. Ecuador. (Buckley.) 



Nearly allied to M. ifevaniaand also to M. Maciina of the Feklers. Mr. Rudolf Felder tells me 

 that it is distinct from both of them. 



