LIBYTHEA. 



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Libythece motya, pt. Boisduval & Leconte, Lepid. Amer. Sept. 

 pi. 64, figs. 3, 4 (nee figs. I, 2) (1833). 



This species is about the size of L. celiis, but the fore-wings 

 are longer, the apex projecting in a more produced lobe, with 

 a concavity between the two angles, the upper angle being 

 nearly as long as the lower one. The hind-wings are less 

 denticulated than in L. celtis^ and project in a small rectangle 

 in the middle of the hind-margin. The colour is brown, with 

 rather brighter tawny markings than in L. celtis. On the fore- 

 wings the cell, and the greater part of the space between this 

 and the inner-margin is filled up with bright tawny colour, the 

 costa, apical region, and hind-margin remaining brown ; on the 

 apical region are three large white, or yellowish-white, spots. 

 Beneath the fore-wings are coloured as above, but paler. 

 The hind-wings are brown, with a curved tawny band a little 

 below the costa, and beneath they are of a purplish-grey, with 

 a yellowish-grey band running from the base, a little below the 

 centre, to the hind-margin. 



The larva is cylindrical, green, with yellow lines and dots ; 

 the pupa is also green, sometimes tinged with blue or yellow, 

 and sprinkled with yellow dots, especially on the abdomen. 



The larva feeds on sugar-berry or hack-berry {Celtis occi- 

 dentalism L.), and probably on other plants ; and there is a suc- 

 cession of broods throughout the summer. It is common in 

 many parts of the Southern United States ; in the Northern 

 States it becomes rare and local, but touches Canada, having 

 been met with as far north as Southern Ontario. It frequents 

 gardens, meadows, road-sides, and other open places, and is 

 particularly fond of flying about raspberry blossoms. 



The South American Z. cari?ie?ita (Cramer), the type of the 

 genus or sub-genus Hypatiis^ is a species very similar to Z. 



