250 ^^^ BUTTERFLIES OF THE 



the dark lines are all clear dark brown, inclined to be 

 gathered into bands through the cell and beyond it ; the 

 alternating light spots before the first and beyond the 

 last are white or whitish, making two irregular whitish 

 bands, with more sprinkling of white along the veins 

 beyond the outer whitish band. Antennae annulate with 

 brown and white, the knob fulvous. 



The larva is said to feed on Carex rigida. 



White Mountains, N.H. 



SUBFAMILY LIBYTHEIN^. 



The insects of the one genus belonging to this sub- 

 family are readily known by their long, beak-like, por- 

 rect palpi, and by the males having four feet adapted for 

 walking, while the females have six. 



91. LiBYTHEA Bachmanni, Kirtl. 



Expanse of wings 1.8 inches. 



This species is readily known by the beak-like palpi, 

 which are about three times as long as the head, and the 

 quadrate apex to the fore wings. The upper surface is 

 brownish black on the fore wings ; the lower half of the 

 cell, and the space below that, about twice as large, are 

 fulvous, with a patch of the same at the end of the cell 

 of the hind wings. The fore wings have a white ante- 

 apical patch, at the end of the cell an oblique white bar, 

 with a quadrate white spot beyond its posterior end. 



The under side is brown, the fulvous area enlarged, 

 the hind wings and tips of the fore wings lilac-tinted, 

 the white spots repeated. The under side of the male is 

 clouded with cretaceous. 



