September, 1902] 



PSYCHE. 



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caterpillar : Naked and without append- 

 ages (?). Chrysalis : Plump, with 

 strongly protuberant wing-cases and 

 mesonotum. 



2. MechaNitis. Butterfly. Last 

 joint of palpi minute. Fore wings 

 opaque, much more than twice as long 

 as broad. Egg: Imperfectly known; 

 laid in clusters. Caterpillar at birth: 

 Ranged appendages moderately long, 

 pointed, not restricted to first stage. Ma- 

 ture caterpillar : Furnished with a series 

 of thick fieshy appendages on the lower 

 sides of the body. Chrysalis : Elongate 

 with somewhat protuberant mesonotum 

 and scarcely protuberant wing-cases. 



3. DiRCENNA. Butterfly : -"LasX. joint 

 of palpi conspicuous. Fore wings trans- 

 parent, much more than twice as long 

 as broad. Egg: Unknown. Cater- 

 pillar at birth : Ranged appendages long, 

 slightly bent, restricted to first stage. 

 Mature caterpillar: Covered with pile. 

 Chrysalis : Similar to that of Dynothea. 



Two species of Hymenitis have been 

 credited to our southern border, but 

 probably on insufficient grounds: liia- 

 phaiia, said to occur "from Brazil to 

 Virginia " ; and phono given by Geyer 

 as from Florida ; neither assertion has 

 been verified. 



Dynothea Reakirt. 

 Butterfly : Palpi thinly clothed, with 



first and second joints subequal and long, 

 third very short ; antennae half as long 

 as fore wings. Wings opaque ; fore 

 wings less than twice as long as broad, 

 the recurrent nervule in discoidal cell 

 originating between the two lower sub- 

 costal nervules. Femur of male longer 

 than the co.xa. Egg: Unknown. Cat- 

 erpillar at birth : Ranged appendages 

 shorter than in the other genera, slightly 

 bent, continuing into the second stage. 

 Mature caterpillar : Naked and without 

 appendages (?), with a stigmatal band. 

 Chiysalis : The wing-cases are strongly 

 protuberant along the ventral line and 

 the mesonotum similarly protuberant 

 along the dorsal, in each case roundly 

 rectangulate; and thereby, as seen on a 

 side view, the anterior end of the body 

 is bent at an angle of nearly So° ; abdo- 

 men short conical. 



D. lycaste Kabr. (Ceraiiiiia ipliiatiassa 

 Doubl. etc.). Biittcrfly: Wings tawny orange, 

 with similar marliings above and beneatli. 

 Fore wings mostly blackish outside the dis- 

 coidal cell and interspace beneath it, w ith a 

 large obliqne long squarish black spot in the 

 cell, large unequal oval orange spots in the 

 median interspaces and a large oblique broad 

 saffron band nearly- crossing the apical half 

 of the wing. Hind wings margined with a 

 narrow hinulate black band ; an equally 

 broad black loop open on the inner margin 

 crosses the wing enclosing subapically a 

 small black spot at the apex of the cell. 

 Expanse 50 mm. Early stages: Unknown. 

 — Southern California. 



