LIBYTHEA. 
LIBYTHEA BACHMANI, 1-4. 
Libi/lkea Bachmani, Kirtland, Silliman’s Journal, vol. xiii. 1852, fig. Saunders, Canadian Entomologist, vol. i 
1868, fig. 
Male. — Expands 1.8 inch. 
Upper side of primaries brownish-black, of secondaries brown clouded with 
black near base ; primaries have a yellow-fulvous patch occupying nearly half 
the cell next median nervure, and a large sub-rhomboidal patch of same color 
below cell, not extending beyond sub-median ; on the costal margin, a long, nar¬ 
row, white spot beyond cell, sometimes divided unequally into two, the smaller 
being on costa ; a small sub-marginal, white spot, sometimes quadrangular, some¬ 
times irregularly rounded, on the upper median interspace, and a sub-apical white 
spot about half the size of the last; these spots are usually pure in color, but 
sometimes are partially tinted with fulvous, and fulvous scales form to them a 
narrow edging. Secondaries have a broad, extra-discal, transverse, fulvous band, 
extending from sub-costal nervure to lower branch of median, rather indistinct 
as it approaches this last nervure ; fringes luteous, fuscous at ends of nervules. 
Under side brown, sometimes olivaceous, clouded with cretaceous, occasionally 
lilac-tinted, or vinous, at apex and somewhat along hind margin of primaries, 
and over whole of secondaries; on these last these shades form a large triangle, 
one broad side of which crosses the disk, one lies along the abdominal margin, 
and the third a little within the costal edge, to which it sends a curved branch ; 
within this triangle is a small brown space, usually sub-triangular, but sometimes 
a narrow stripe only, confined nearly to the median nervure, with a narrow 
patch across the origin of the median nervules ; primaries yellow-fulvous from 
base over two-thirds the cell, and below cell almost to hind margin; the two 
extra-discal white spots repeated, but the sub-apical sometimes lost in the cre¬ 
taceous patch. Body and palpi dark brown above, gray-brown beneath; legs 
gray-brown, eyes crimson ; antennae and club dark brown. 
Female. — Expands 2 inches. 
Similar to male except that the under side of secondaries has often no appear¬ 
ance of clouded surface, and is then of an uniform vinous-brown, or in an oblique 
light, lilaceous. 
