OF BRITISH HONDURAS


8. MECHANITIS DORYSSUS (Bates).
 I have found this insect at San Pedro Sarstoon,
where it is fairly abundant. It is altogether
absent from the northern districts.
9. MECHANITIS UTENAIA (Reak).
 This is a variety of the preceding, and I have
taken it plentifully in the woods around the Cayo
in the west.
10. MECHANITIS LYCIDICE (Bates).
 A common forest butterfly in the Western
District. It flies with fluttering and slow move-
ments keeping close to the undergrowth. Numbers
of them are often seen together.
 I have never seen any of this genus of Mechanitis
in the northern districts.
II. CERATINIA DION(EA (Hew).
 I have met with this butterfly in the Southern
and Western and also in the Stann Creek Districts,
but I have never seen it in the north of the Colony.
It is very local and is never found outside the
forest belt. Here it is observed only in certain
circumscribed areas, but where a single specimen
is found others also will be seen. It has a feeble
fluttering flight and is easily captured.
 Its resemblance to a Mechanitis is very strong,
but the row of yellow spots along the margin of
the wings at once distinguishes it.