. The butterfly book; a popular guide to a knowledge of the butterflies of North America. Butterflies. Genus Ceratinia "Body brownish; wing-lappets and thorax spotted with tawny-orange; antennae yellowish, with the base dusky. " Had. —Los Angeles, ; 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 g
. The butterfly book; a popular guide to a knowledge of the butterflies of North America. Butterflies. Genus Ceratinia "Body brownish; wing-lappets and thorax spotted with tawny-orange; antennae yellowish, with the base dusky. " Had. —Los Angeles, ; 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 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) Ceratinialycaste, 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
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