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Show 484 MR. HERBERT DRUCE ON NEW SPECIES [APr- 19, bordered with dark brown ; a short brown line partly crosses wing from the costal margin to the end of the cell. Under side pale brown. Primaries : the black spot as on the upper side, below which is a small black spot edged with yellow, both spots enclosed by several dark lines ; a reddish-brown band crosses the wing from the costal margin beyond the cell to the inner margin, beyond which is a submarginal narrow black line. Secondaries very similar to the primaries, with a small black spot at the end of the cell. Expanse 1| inch. Hab. N.W. Peru : Paramba, 3500 feet (Rosenberg, Mus. Druce). Allied to Mesosema lamackus Hew., but without the brown lines on the secondaries. MESOSEMIA CANDARA, sp. n. (Plate XXXIII. fig. 8.) Male. Head, collar, tegula?, thorax, and abdomen black, the under side of the thorax, abdomen, and legs pale brown. Antenna? black ringed with white. Primaries bright blue, the apex and outer margin black ; a narrow white band partly crosses the wing from the costal margin nearly to the middle of the outer margin ; a large round black spot with white points in it at the end of the cell, on each side of which a narrow black line crosses the wing from the costal to the inner margin. Secondaries bright blue, the costal, outer, and inner margins edged with black. Under side pale greyish brown, the white band on the primaries about three times the width as above and extending to the anal angle ; the black spot the same as above, but edged with yellow ; a small black spot just below the larger one, the lines very similar to those on the upper side. Secondaries : a black spot at the end of the cell with one white point in the middle, the wing crossed on both sides of the black spot from the costal to the inner margin by a dark brown line edged with paler brown on the inner side; a rather wide very indistinct submarginal band extends from the apex to the anal angle. Expanse 1| inch. Hab. Peru : Chanchamayo (Mus. Druce). This butterfly to some extent resembles Mesosemia loruhania Hew. from Ecuador, but it is of a darker blue colour and has only one black spot on the primaries instead of two as in M. loruhania, and on the under side it differs in several small details. MESOSEMIA CARDERI, sp. n. (Plate XXXIII. fig. 9.) Male. Head, antenna?, collar, abdomen, and legs black ; thorax metallic dark blue. Primaries black, the base, costal margin, and two bands crossing the wing beyond the cell dark blue ; a black spot at the end of the cell with three white points, the spot partly edged with blue on the costal side, the fringe black. Secondaries black, broadly bordered with dark blue from the apex to the anal angle, the base blue. Under side : primaries and secondaries pale greyish brown, both crossed by a number of dark |
