SUBFAMILY LIBYTHEIN/E (THE SNOUT-BUTTERFLIES) 
44 What more felicitie can fall to creature 
Than to enjoy delight with libertie, 
And to be Lord of all the workes of Nature, 
To raigne in th’ aire from th’ earth to highest skie, 
To feed on flowres and weeds of glorious feature, 
To take whatever thing doth please the eie ? ” 
Spenser. 
Butterfly .—The butterflies of this family are very readily dis¬ 
tinguished from all others by their long projecting palpi, and by 
the fact that the males have four feet adapted to walking, while 
the females have six, in which respect they approach the Ery- 
cinidae. 
Only one genus is represented in our faunal region, the 
genus Libytbea. 
Genus LIBYTHEA, Fabricius 
(The Snout-butterflies) 
Butterfly.— Rather small in size, with the eyes moderately 
large; the antennae with a distinct club at the end; the palpi 
with the last joint extremely long and heavily clothed with hair. 
The wings have the outer margin strongly excised 
between the first median nervule and the lower 
radial vein. Between the upper and lower radial 
veins the wing is strongly produced outwardly; 
N the inner margin is bowed out toward the base 
before the inner angle. The costa of the hind wing 
is bent upward at the base and excised before 
the outer angle; the wing is produced at the 
ration of diTgenus en ^s of the subcostal vein, the third median ner- 
Libythea. vule, and the extremity of the submedian vein. 
There is also a slight projection at the extremity of the first me¬ 
dian nervule. Of these projections the one at the extremity of 
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