LIBYTHEA AND MACROGLOSSA. 171 



The Papillio Ajax and P. Marcellus have also been 

 described as Southern insects, and the late Mr. Doubleday 

 located the former exclusively in Florida, and fixed the 

 most Northern limit of the latter in Virginia. Still they 

 are common at this point, and subsist, in the larva state, 

 on the pawpaw. An undescribed species of Libythea has 

 been taken in Northern Ohio. It has been found, also, in 

 South Carolina, and is without doubt legitimately a Southern 

 species.* 



The Ohoerocampa tersa, an elegant miller, was taken in 

 our garden, in the month of May last. Dr. Harris describes 

 it as a native of South Carolina, where it feeds on a species 

 of plant that does not grow at the North. f The food it finds 

 as a substitute has not been ascertained. 



DESCRIPTION OF A NEW SPECIES OF LIBYTHEA 

 AND OF MACROGLOSSA.^ 



BY J. P. KIRTLAND 



Read before the Cleveland Academy of Natural Science, 1852. 



LYBITHEA BACHMANII. 



Generic Character. — Inferior palpi projecting in the form 

 of a beak. 



SpeciiiG Character. — Body dark brown, upper surface of 

 the superior wings brownish, with three white spots placed 

 in the triangle, near the tip of the fore wings — the superior 



* See the figure and description in No. 76 of the Family Visitor. 



t See Dr. Harris's very valuable Catalogue of American Sphinges, in Vol. 

 XXXVI American Journal of Science and Arts. The student of Entomology 

 will there find the history of this intricate family made plain by the labors of 

 Dr. Harris. 



X Vid. Figures of these two insects in Journal of Science and Arts, Vol. XIH , 

 No. 39, May, 1852. 



