Genus Ceratinia 
“ Body brownish; wing-lappets and thorax spotted with 
tawny-orange; antennae yellowish, with the base dusky. 
“ Hab.— 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 Mechanitis. The pecu¬ 
liarity of this genus, by which it may 
be distinguished from others belong¬ 
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 Mechani¬ 
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 
Fio. 8 i.-Neurationof the genus is said to occur occasionally within the 
Ceratinia. (For explanation ot limits of the region covered by this 
lettering, see Fig. 40.) volume . 
(i) Ceratinia lycaste, Fabricius, Plate VIII, Fig. 3, $ (Lycaste). 
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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