Genus Ceratinia 



"Body brownish; wing-lappets and thorax spotted with 

 tawny-orange; antennae yellowish, with the base dusky. 



11 Had. — Los Angeles, California." 



The species is probably only a local race of the insect known 

 to naturalists as M. polymnia, Linnaeus, as Reakirt himself admits. 

 The figure in the plate is from one of Reakirt's paratypes. 





Genus CERATINIA, Fabricius 



Butterfly. — Butterflies of medium size, very closely related in 

 structure to the butterflies of the genus Mecbanitis. The pecu- 

 liarity of this genus, by which it may 

 be distinguished from others belong- 

 |w ing to this subfamily, is the fact that 

 the lower discocellular vein in the hind 

 wing of the male sex is strongly in- 

 angled, while in the genus Mecbani- 

 tis it is the middle discocellular vein 

 of the hind wing which is bent in- 

 wardly. 



Early Stages. — Unknown for the 

 most part. 



There are at least fifty species be- 

 longing to this genus found in the 

 tropical regions of America; only one 

 FiG.8..-Neurationof thegenus is said to occur occasionally within the 

 Ceratinia. (For explanation of limits of the region covered by this 



lettering, see Fig. 40.) . 



b ' e> t 1 volume. 



(1) Ceratinia lycaste, Fabricius, Plate VIII, Fig. 3, $ (Ly caste). 



Butterfly. — The butterfly is rather small, wings semi-transpar- 

 ent, especially at the apex of the fore wings. The ground-color 

 is pale reddish-orange, with the border black. There are a few 

 irregular black spots on the discal area of the fore wings, and 

 a row of minute white spots on the outer border. There is a black 

 band on the middle of the hind wings, curved to correspond some- 

 what with the outline of the outer border. The markings on the 

 under side are paler. The variety negreta, which is represented 

 in the plate, has a small black spot at the end of the cell of the 

 hind wings, replacing the black band in the form common upon 

 the Isthmus of Panama. 



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