MEltlDYEIAS. 
2 L 
whitish and faintly tinged with purple ; indistinct diffused 
blackish antemedial and medial lines ; postmedial line whitish 
defined on inner side by black points and on outer by red- 
brown, sinuous ; subterminal line whitish defined on each 
side by red-brown slightly waved ; a fine waved black line 
before termen. Underside ochreous ; fore wing with brown 
shade from costa to lower angle of cell and the terminal area 
suffused with brown ; hind wing with indistinct discoidal 
bar, sinuous postmedial line and subterminal shade. 
Hab. Venezuela, Esteban Valley, Las Quiguas, 1 $ ; 
Br. Guiana, Rockstone {Kaye), 1 1 $ type ; Brazil, 
Amazons, Breves (Austen), 1 A, Lake Guruty (Trail), 1 2. 
Exp. 2G, 2 30 millim. 
Meridyrias mesostigma, n. sp. 
(U Head, thorax, and abdomen red-brown mixed with 
white and some dark brown ; pectus, legs and ventral surface 
of abdomen with more white ; tarsi dark brown ringed with 
white. Fore wing white, thickly irrorated with red-brown 
and some dark brown ; two black-brown subbasal marks on 
costa and a sinuous line from below costa to vein 1 ; ante- 
medial line black-brown, incurved in the cell, oblicpie and 
sinuous below the cell, a small round black-brown spot in 
middle of cell and a black-brown patch before the reniform 
which is Avhite with a curved dark brown striga on it, its 
lower extremity produced ; two indistinct dark brown medial 
lines, bent outwards beyond the cell, then oblique and sinuous ; 
postmedial line double, filled in with rufous except at costa, 
the inner line black with a white striga on its outer side at 
costa, the outer line brown, slightly waved, excurved below 
costa and oblique below vein 4, some white points beyond it 
on costa with black-brown between them ; subterminal line 
white defined on each side by diffused brown, waved, ex- 
curved at middle, a rufous spot beyond it before apex ; a 
waved blackish line before termen with black points at the 
interspaces ; cilia with a fine white line at base and chequered 
with white at tips. Hind wing white thickly irrorated with 
red-brown and some blackish ; two indistinct waved inter- 
rupted medial lines ; postmedial line double, filled in with 
pale rufous, the inner line black, the outer slight and brown, 
sinuous and slightly waved ; subterminal line white defined 
on each side by brown, rather irregularly waved ; a waved 
black line before termen forming points at the interspaces ; 
cilia with fine white line at base and chequered Avith white 
at tips. Underside AA’hite suffused and irrorated AAith red- 
broAvn ; fore wing with slight dark spot in middle of cell and 
discoidal spot, indistinct medial line excurved in the cell, 
