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atrophy of the male fore legs is shown to have reached, in Nymphalites, 

 the same stage which it now possesses. 



On the other hand, there are some marks of a lesser degree of devel- 

 opment in one of our butterflies, in the character of the ornamentation, 

 similar to, but more distinct than, that we have mentioned in one of the Aix 

 butterflies. Prodryas (16: 6) has front wings which inform, proportions, 

 and markings would be taken at once for those of an Hesperian, the lowest, 

 rather than of a Nymphalid, the highest of butterflies ; the markings of the 

 hind wings are, however, distinctly Nymphalideous, though some tropical 

 American Hesperidae have some features nearly resembling them. A 

 greater simplicity of markings than is common to their existing relatives 

 is also seen in Neorinopsis and Apanthesis. 



BIBLIOGRAPHY. 



Scudder, S. H. Fossil butterflies. Salem, 1875. 3 pi. Mem. Am. assoc. adv. sc. 

 Scudder, S.H. The fossil butterflies of Florissant. 2 pi. Sth Eep. U. S. Geol. surv. 

 (ill press). 



HYPATUS BACHMANII.— The snout butterfly. 



[The suout butterfly (G-osse); red and black beaked butterfly (Maynard).] 



Libythea bachmcmii Kirtl., Amer. journ. Hypatus hachmanii Scudd., Bull. ButF. soc. 



sc., (2), xiii: 336-337, fig. (1852); Proc. nat. sc, ii: 209 (1875). 



Clevel. acad., 1845-59, 171 (187-4); — Morr., Libythea motya Boisd.-LeC, L6p. Am. 



Syn. Lep. N. A., 63-64 (1862) ;— Saund., Can. sept., pi. 64, figs. 3, 4 (not figs. 1, 2) (1833). 



ent., i: 25, fig. (1868); Eep. ent. soc. Out.> Libythea motya, var. a. L. bachmanii 



1880, 38, fig. (1881) ; — Edw., Butt. N. A., ii, Kirby, Syn. cat. diurn. Lep., 283 (1871) . 



pi. Libythea i (1874); Can. ent., xiii: 226-229 Papilio carinenta Abb., Draw. ins. Ga. 



(1881) ; Rev. cat.diurn. Lep. Am., 51 (1885) ;— Brit. Mus., vi : 40, figs. 32-33 (ca 1800). 



Streck., Syn. cat. macrolep., 105 (1878);— Figured by Glover, 111. N. A. Lep., pi. 25, 



French, Rep. ins. 111., vii: 157 (1878); Butt. fig. 11; p'l. V, fig. 11, ined. 



east. U. S., 250-252 (1886) ;— Mayn., Butt. N. [Not Hecaerge motya Iliibu., nor Papilio 



E., 31, pi. 8, figs. 36, 33a (1886). carinenta Cram.] 



Therein two deadly weapons fixt he bore, 

 Strongly outlaunced towards either side, 

 Like two sharpe speares, his enemies to gore : 

 Like as a warlike brigandine, applyde 

 To fight, layes forth her threatfull "pikes afore, 

 The engines which in them sad death doo hyde : 

 So did this Flie outstretch his fearefull homes, 

 Yet so as him their terrour more adornes. 



SPE-ssER.—3fuioj)ot7nos. 



Imago (4:4). Head covered with mouse brown scales and pretty long hairs, mingled, 

 above with a few, behind at the sides, with frequent hoary ones. Eyes rich, dark, reddish 

 brown, edged with an exceedingly slender, hoary rim most distinct in front. Antennae 

 dark, dull purplish brown, with a scarcely perceptible lustre, beneath tinged with rus- 

 set, the joints on the basal half of the stem tipped with dirty white, most conspicuously 

 and broadly beneath, the paler colors sometimes suff'using nearly the whole joint, above 

 obscurely, and sometimes not at all, except toward the sides; club beneath, and three 

 or four apical joints above blackish, the apical joint tinged with russet. Palpi above 

 covered with uniformly long, mouse brown hairs with a few scattered hoary and verj' 



