4 LLOYDS NATURAL HISTORY. 



The type is 



THE NETTLE-TREE BUITERFLY. L1BYTHEA CELTIS. 



Papilio celtts, Fuessly, Arch. Ins. pi. 8, figs. 1-3, and pi. 14 (1782- 

 1783); Esper, Schmett. i. (2) p. 168, pi. 87, figs. 2, 3 

 ( I 7 8 3); P- I0 9) fig 8 - 2 -8 (1800: transf.) ; Hiibner, Eur. 

 Schmett. i. pp. 447-449 (1799?). 



LibytheaceltiS) Godart, Enc. Meth. Ins. ix. p. 170, no. i (1819) ; 

 Kirby, Eur. Butterflies and Moths, p. 43, pi. 13, fig. 9 

 (1879) ; Lang, Butterflies Eur. p. 152, pi. 32, fig. 2 (1882 : 

 with transf.). 



This Butterfly measures an inch and a half, or an inch and 

 three-quarters across the wings, which are brown, with fulvous 

 markings, and are strongly angulated ; towards the tips of the 

 fore-wings is a white spot on the costa, and a square blotch 

 obliquely below it, beyond the more extended tawny colouring 

 of the wing. The Butterfly has much of the appearance of a 

 small Vanessa, but its very long palpi are amply sufficient to 

 prevent it from being mistaken for any other European species. 

 It inhabits Southern Europe and Asia Minor. The larva and 

 pupa are both green, and the larva feeds on the nettle-tree, 

 Celtis australis, but will also eat cherry. It is double-brooded, 

 the Butterfly appearing in March and June, and it is not un- 

 common where its food-plant grows. 



THE SNOUT BUTTERFLY. LIBYTHEA BACHMANII. 

 (Plate XXXVIII. Fig. i.) 



Libythea bachmanii, Kirtland, Amer. Journ. Science (2), xiii. 



p. 336, cum fig. (1852) ; Edwards, Butt. N. Amer. ii. Lib. 



pi. i. (1874); Maynard, Butt. N. England, p. 31, pi. 8, figs. 



36, 360(1886). 

 Hypatus bachmanii, Scudder, Butterflies of Eastern United 



States, p. 760 (1889). 



