ERYCINID.E. MESOSEMIA. 



verse bands of dark Ijrown on each side of it : the onter margin broadly pale blue, 

 traversed by a broken line of brown. 



Exp. Ig-Q inch. llab. Ecuador. (Rio Rusino, Buckley.) 



In the Collection of W. C. Hewitson. 



MESOSEMIA MUSTELA. 107, lOS. 



Mesosemia Miistela, Heivitson. Trans. Ent. Soc. p. ICl, 1870. 



Upperside. Eemale, rufous-brown. Anterior wing with the discal spot black 

 marked by three minute white spots, with, on each side of it, two linear brown 

 bands : crossed Ijeyond the middle l)y a band of white from the costal margin to the 

 anal angle nearly where it is narrow and bordered inwardly with brown : the wing 

 beyond it dark brown. Posterior wing angular at the outer margin, crossed near the 

 base by two linear very indistinct bands, and beyond the middle by four bands of 

 brown, the two inner bands nearly straight, the outer ones parallel to the margin, 

 which is also brown. 



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

 are three linear bands beyond the middle, and that the two bands parallel to the outer 

 margin are broken into spots. 



Exp. ly^o inch. Hab. Ecuador. (Gualaquisa.) 



In the Collection of W. C. Hewitson. 



Nearly allied to M. Adida. 



MESOSEMIA AHAVA. 109, 110. 

 Mesosemia Ahava, Hewitson. Equal . Lep. ]]. 41, 1869. 



Upperside. Male, dark brown. Anterior wing with the black discal spot 

 marked by three minute white spots : a very slight indication of a pale brown band 

 before the apex. Posterior wing with the outer half white bordered above with grey 

 crossed by two black lines, a black spot at the apex : the outer margin black, very 

 narrow, the fringe white. 



Underside paler brown. Anterior wing with the discal spot as above, but with 

 a rufous border and encircled by two black bands : crossed from margin to margin by 

 a submarginal band of white. Posterior wing with a minute black discal spot 

 with three bands of black on each side of it -. broadly white towards the outer margin 

 (which is black) and marked by some dark brown spots. 



Exp. l^^o inch. 



Near to M. Metope, and also to M. Olivencia of Bates. 



MESOSExMIA MANCIA. 111. 



Mesosemia 3Iancia, Heivitson. Trans. Ent. Soc. p. 159, 1870. 



Upperside. Female, dark brown. Anterior wing blue from the base (except 

 the costal margin, which is brown) to a large central quadrate w/iite spot: the discal 

 spot indistinct, marked with three minute white spots. Posterior wing much pro- 

 duced at the middle of the outer margin, blue broadly bordered with bi-own. 



Underside as above, except that it is entirely brown, paler, that the anterior 

 wing has a short band before the discal spot, that the posterior wing has a discal spot 

 marked by two minute white spots, with an indistinct brown band on each side of it 

 bordered with paler colour. 



Exp. 2 inch. Ilab. Ecuador. (Jorge.) 



In the Collection of W. C. Hewitson. 



