small and rounded, without tails. Abdomen produced beyond the margin of the hind wing. 

 Wings more or less transparent. Antennae long and very slender, with a slender club at end, 

 naked. Fore legs greatly atrophied, especially in the males. Larvce and chrysalids resem- 

 bling those of the Euplceince, the chrysalids being short,-cylindrical, and marked with metallic 

 spots. The family, with the exception of the Australian genus, Hamadryas, is confined 

 to the New World, in the tropics of which there are swarms of genera and species. Like 

 the Euploeinoe they are "protected." But two genera are reported from our territory. 



GENUS CERATINIA FABRICIUS 



Distinguished from other allied genera by the strongly lobed costal margin of the hind 

 wings in the male. 



There are fifty species of this genus known from the American tropics, but only one occurs 

 within the limits of the United States, and only in the extreme southwestern portion of our 

 territory. 



(1) Ceratinia lycaste (Fabricius), Plate III, Fig. 2, 9 (Lycaste Butterfly"! 



This insect, which may easily be identified by the figure we give, is reported from southern 

 California. The plate shows the variety, named negreta, which has a spot at the end of the 

 cell of the hind wing instead of a black bar, as is the case in specimens from Panama. Ex- 

 panse 2.1 to 2.25 inches. Wright does not include this species in his list of butterflies of 

 the west coast. 



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