SUBFAMILY LIBYTHEIN/E (THE SNOUT-BUTTERFLIES) 



"What more felicitie can fall to creature 

 Than to enjoy delight with libertie, 

 And to be Lord of all the workes of Nature, 



To raigne in th' aire from th' earth to highest skie, 

 To feed on flowres and weeds of glorious feature, 

 To take whatever thing doth please the eie ? " 



Spenser. 



Butterfly.— -The butterflies of this family are very readily dis- 

 tinguished from all others by their long projecting palpi, and by 

 the fact that the males have four feet adapted to walking, while 

 the females have six, in which respect they approach the Ery- 

 cinidze. 



Only one genus is represented in our faunal region, the 

 genus Libytbea. 



Genus LIBYTHEA, Fabricius 

 (The Snout-butterflies) 



Butterfly.— Rather small in size, with the eyes moderately 

 large; the antennae with a distinct club at the end; the palpi 

 with the last joint extremely long and heavily clothed with hair. 

 The wings have the outer margin strongly excised 

 between the first median nervule and the lower 

 radial vein. Between the upper and lower radial 

 veins the wing is strongly produced outwardly; 

 the inner margin is bowed out toward the base 

 before the inner angle. The costa of the hind wing 

 is bent upward at the base and excised before 

 the outer angle; the wing is produced at the 

 ration of tlie genus er >ds of the subcostal vein, the third median ner- 

 Libythea. V ule, and the extremity of the submedian vein. 



There is also a slight projection at the extremity of the first me- 

 dian nervule. Of these projections the one at the extremity of 



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