"Beneath the same, suffused with orange-tawny at the base and the inner angle, with a row of eight or nine submarginal white spots along the outer margin.
"Hind wing above, orange-tawny, with a broad mesial band, entire, and a narrow outer border, from the middle of the costa to the anal angle, brownish-black.
"Beneath the same, a yellow spot on the root of the wing; a band runs along the subcostal nervure from the base to the margin, where it is somewhat dilated; immediately below its termination, a mark in the form of an irregular figure 2, usually with the upper part inordinately enlarged; between this and the base, on the central line of the band above, three small subtriangular spots; all these markings blackish-brown; a submarginal row of seven white spots on the outer margin.
"Body brownish; wing-lappets and thorax spotted with tawny-orange; antennæ yellowish, with the base dusky.
The species is probably only a local race of the insect known to naturalists as _M. polymnia_, Linnæus, as Reakirt himself admits. The figure in the plate is from one of Reakirt's paratypes.
_Butterfly._--Butterflies of medium size, very closely related in structure to the butterflies of the genus _Mechanitis_. The peculiarity of this genus, by which it may be distinguished from others belonging 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 _Mechanitis_ it is the _middle_ discocellular vein of the hind wing which is bent inwardly.
_Early Stages._--Unknown for the most part.
There are at least fifty species belonging to this genus found in the tropical regions of America; only one is said to occur occasionally within the limits of the region covered by this volume.
[Illustration FIG. 81.--Neuration of the genus _Ceratinia_. (For explanation of lettering, see Fig. 40.)]
(1) =Ceratinia lycaste=, Fabricius, Plate VIII, Fig. 3, ♂ (Lycaste).
_Butterfly._--The butterfly is rather small, wings semi-transparent, 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 somewhat 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.