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LIBYTHEA. 



LIBYTHEA BACHMANI, 1-4. 



Libi/lliiit nurJimniii, Kirtlaml, SiUiiiKin's .louriKil, vnl. xiii. 1S.">2, liii". Saiiiiilers, Canailian Entc)ini)Ioijist. vol. i 

 l,st;s, fi<r. 



Male. — Expands 1.8 inch. 



Upper side of primaries brownisli-blacls:. of secondaries brown clouded witli 

 black near base ; primaries have a yellow-t'ulvous patch occupying nearly halt" 

 the cell next mediiin nervure, and a large sub-rhomboidal patch of same color 

 below cell, not extending beyond sulj-median ; on the costal margin, a long, nar- 

 row, white spot beyond cell, sometimes divided unequally into two, the sniiiller 

 being on costa ; a small sub-marginal, white spot, sometimes cpiadrangular, some- 

 times irregularly rounded, on the upper median interspace, and a sub-apical white 

 spot about half the size of the last ; these spots are usually pure in color, but 

 sometimes are })artially tinted with fulvous, and fulvous scales form to them a 

 narrow edging. Secondaries have a broad, extra-discal, transverse, fulvous l)and, 

 exteniling from sub-costal nervure to lower branch of median, rather indistinct 

 as it approaches this last nervure ; fringes luteous. fuscous at cuds of nervules. 



Under side brown, sometimes olivaceous, cloudeil with cretaceous, occasionally 

 lilac-tinted, or vinous, at apex and somewhat along hind margin of primaries, 

 and over whole of secondaries ; on these last these shades form a large triangle, 

 one broad side of which crosses the disk, one lies along the aljdominal margin, 

 and the third a little within the costal edge, to which it sends a curved l)ranch ; 

 within this triangle is a small brown space, usually sub-triangular, but sometimes 

 a narrow stripe only, confined nearly to the median nervure, with a narrow 

 patch across the origin of the median nervules ; primaries yellow-fulvous from 

 base over two-thirds tiie cell, and below cell almost to hind margin; the two 

 extra-discal white spots repeated. Iiut the sub-apical sometimes lost in the cre- 

 taceous patch. Body and palpi dark In-own above, gray-brown beneath ; legs 

 gray-brown, eyes crimson ; antenna? and club dark brown. 



Female. — Expands "2 inches. 



Similar to male except that the under side of secondaries has often no appear- 

 ance of clouded surface, and is then of an uniforui vinous-ln'own. or in an oblique 

 light, lilaceous. 



