ERYCINID.E. 



MESOSEMIA X. 



MESOSEMIA AMA. 90, 91. 



Upperside. Female, rufous-browu, with the outer margins dark brown. Both 

 wings crossed at the middle by a band of black, and towards the outer margin by ;i 

 band of white, broadest near the costal margin of the anterior wing, clouded near 

 the anal angle of the posterior wing. Anterior wing with the black discal spot with 

 a rufous border and three minute spots of white : a black spot between it and the 

 base. 



Underside as above, except that the posterior wing has a small oblong discal 

 spot marked at both ends with white, and between it and the base a short brown 

 band, and that the white band is scarcely seen except near the apex. 



Exp. Iyo inch. Ilab. Ecuador. (Buckley.) 



MESOSEMIA ADIDA. 92, 93. 



Upperside. Female, rnfous-brown, the outer margins broadly dark brown. 

 Both wings crossed beyond the middle by a band of white, broadest on the anterior 

 wing. Anterior wing with the black discal spot marked by three distinct white 

 dots, its border rufous, and on each side of it two bands of brown. Posterior wing 

 crossed beyond the middle by two brown bands. 



Underside as above, except that the posterior wing has a small discal spot 

 marked by two white dots, with two bands of brov.n between it and the base. 



Exp. 1|^ inch. Ilab. Ecuador. (Buckley.) 

 This and the last-described species come nearest to M. Telcgone in the angular form of the 

 posterior wing. 



MESOSEMIA MEHIDA. 94, 95. 



Upperside. Male, brilliant blue. Both wings with a submarginal band and 

 the outer margin black. 



Underside brown. Both wings crossed beyond the middle by a grey band 

 (zigzag on the posterior wing), by a black line bordered on both sides with grey, and 

 by a submarginal band of black sjiots. Anterior wing with a black discal spot 

 bordered with orange and marked by three minute white spots one with its centre 



