. The butterfly book : a popular guide to a knowledge of the butterflies of North America. Butterflies. Ithomiinae (the Long-wings) protected like the Euploeids and the Heliconians. In flight they are said to somewhat resemble the dragon-flies of the genus Agrion, their narrow wings, greatly elongated bodies, and slow, flitting motion recalling these insects, which are known by school- boys as "; Three genera are said to be represented in the extreme south- western portion of the United States. I myself have never re- ceived specimens of any of them which indisputably
. The butterfly book : a popular guide to a knowledge of the butterflies of North America. Butterflies. Ithomiinae (the Long-wings) protected like the Euploeids and the Heliconians. In flight they are said to somewhat resemble the dragon-flies of the genus Agrion, their narrow wings, greatly elongated bodies, and slow, flitting motion recalling these insects, which are known by school- boys as "; Three genera are said to be represented in the extreme south- western portion of the United States. I myself have never re- ceived specimens of any of them which indisputably came from localities within our limits, and no such specimens are found in the great collection of Mr. W. H. Edwards, which is now in my possession. A paratype of Reakirt's species, Mechanitis califor- nica, is contained in the collection of Theodore L. Mead, which I also possess. Mr. Mead obtained it from Herman Strecker of Reading, Pennsylvania. Reakirt gives Los Angeles as the locality from which his type came; but whether he was right in this is open to question, inasmuch, so far as is known, the species has not been found in that neighborhood since described by Reakirt. Genus MECHANITIS, Fabricius Butterfly. —^uW&r^Wts, of moderate size, with the fore wings greatly produced, the inner margin bowed out just beyond the base, and deeply excavated between this projection and the inner angle. The lower discocellular vein in the hind wings is apparently continuous with the median vein, and the lower radial vein being parallel with the median nervules, the median vein has in consequence the ap- pearance of being four-branched. The submedian vein of the fore wings is forked at the base. The costal margin of the hind wings is clothed with tufted erect hairs in the male sex. The fore legs of the male are greatly atrophied, Fig. 8o.—Neuration of the ^, . • ^ ^.-u- i • r j j gmns Mechanitis. The letters the tarsi and the tibia being fused and refer to the names of the vei
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