SUBFAMILY PYRRHOPYGINiE 
“ Seeing only what is fair, 
Sipping only what is sweet.” 
Emerson. 
This subfamily is composed of closely related genera which are 
found only in the New World. They may be easily recognized 
by the large blunt club of the antennae. The cell of the fore wing is 
always very long, being two thirds the length of the costa; the 
lower radial vein usually rises from the end of the cell, a little above 
the third median nervule, and at a considerable 
remove from the upper radial. 
They are said when at rest to ex¬ 
tend all their wings horizontally. 
But one genus belonging to this 
subfamily is represented within the 
limits of the United States. 
Fig. 150.— 
Head and an¬ 
tenna of Pyrrho* 
pyge, magnified 2 
diameters. 
Genus PYRRHOPYGE, 
Hiibner 
Fig. 15 i.—N eura- 
The neuration is as tion of the genus 
Pyrrhopyge. 
Butterfly. 
represented in the cut, and need 
not, therefore, be described at length. The club of the antennae 
is thickened, usually bluntly pointed and bent into a hook. 
(1) Pyrrhopyge araxes, Hewitson, Plate XLV, Fig. 9, 6 
(A raxes). 
Butterfly .—Easily recognized from the figure in the plate. 
The hind wings are prevalently yellow on the under side. It is 
wholly unlike any other species found within the faunal limits 
with which this book deals. The wings expand about two inches. 
We have no knowledge whatever of the life-history of the insect. 
It occurs in southern Texas occasionally, but is quite common in 
Mexico and more southern countries. 
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