Genus Ceratinia 



"Body brownish; wing-lappets and thorax spotted with 

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



" 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 



5////^r_^_>'. — 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- 

 I"R 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 S/a^^5. — 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.Si.-Neurationof thegenus' is Said to occur occasionally within the 

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



letterint>;, see Fie;. 40.) , 



*' fo t / volume. 



(i) Ceratinia lycaste, Fabricius, Plate VIII, Fig. 3, 6 (Lycaste). 



ButierJJy.— 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. 



