ERYCINID^. 



MESOSEMIA, XL 



MESOSEMIA MYCENE. 101, 10,2. 



Mesosemia Myceuc, Hcwltson. Trans. Enf. Soc. p. ICO, 1870. 



UiTERsiDE. Male, green. Anterior wing with a short Hne before the discal 

 spot : the discal spot (which is marked with one minute spot), a hnear band beyond 

 it, and the rest of the wing (more than hah), black. Posterior wing with the outer 

 margin and nervures near it black. 



Underside brown. Both wings with a discal spot marked with one minute 

 white spot, bordered with orange and crossed on both sides of it by two brown 

 bands : both wings crossed beyond the middle by a broad band of brown bordered on 

 the anterior Aving by paler colour. Anterior wing with a small black spot, below 

 the discal spot, bordered with orange. Posterior wing with the outer margin 

 angular. 



Exp. 1-j^j inch. liab. Ecuador. (Jorge.) 



lu the Collectiou of W. C. Hewitsou. 



MESOSEMIA MAMILIA. 103, 104. 



McsosciJiia Maiii'ilia, Ilcjoifson. Trans. Ent. Soc. p. 100, 1S70. 



Upperside. Male, dark l)rowa. Anterior wing (except the costal margin, 

 which is brown) blue from the base to the middle : a short line before the discal spot, 

 the discal spot which is marked with two minute white spots, and a line beyond it 

 (which is not separate from the Ijrown of the rest of the wing till near the submedian 

 nervure), all black: crossed by a curved band of blue beyond the middle. Posterior 

 wing with the basal half blue, the outer half dark brown traversed by a linear blue 

 band. 



Underside grey-brown. Anterior wing with the discal spot (which is marked 

 with three minute white spots), and a spot below it, bordered with orange : the line 

 between it and the base longer than above : crossed beyond the miildle by a clouded 

 band of white. Posterior wing with the discal spot marked by two minute white 

 spots and bordered with orange, with bands of orange bordered with brown on each 

 side of it : crossed by a central brown band, and by a submarginal series of brown 

 spots both bordered inwardly with didl white -. the outer margin angular. 



Eemale (tigs. 103, 104) like the male, except that instead of the blue liand of the 

 anterior wing, it is crossed by a broad pyriform band of white, and that the posterior 

 wing is crossed before the middle by a linear band of black. 



Exp. 1-1^,7 inch. Hab. Ecuador. (Jorge.) 



In the Collection of VV. C. Hewitson. 



I am sorry that I cannot figare the male of this species, which, after being described, was broken 

 beyond repair. 



MESOSEMIA ZANOA. 105, 100. 



Mesosemia Zanoa, Jlewifsou. Eqnatorial -Lepidopfera, p. 41, 1809. 



Upperside. j\Iale, dark brown. Anterior wing with the discal black spot 

 marked by two minute white spots. Posterior wing ceridean blue, with the base and 

 costal margin blue black : the outer margin with a narrow black line, the fringe 

 white. 



Underside rufous-brown. Anterior wing with the discal spot marked by three 

 dots of white, and encircled l)y three bands of black : crossed near the outer uitirgin 

 by a band of white. Posterior wing with a smaU black discal spot with three trans- 



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Published July \st, 1S71.] 



