<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">I wondered why a butterfly would have a name that includes "noise". With a little searching I came up with this on page 157 of Scudder's "Brief guide to the commoner butterflies of the northern United States and Canada".<div><br></div><blockquote class="webkit-indent-blockquote" style="margin: 0 0 0 40px; border: none; padding: 0px;"><div>later in life it makes a larger nest from one or more leaves after the habit of Epargyreus; it is very cleanly, always ejecting its excrement outside its nest with a snap which sends it to a distance.</div><div><br></div></blockquote><div><div>I didn't find anything similar in descriptions of other Thorybes. The use of Thorybes certainly predates this reference. The Southern Cloudywing, Thorybes bathyllus was described by J.E. Smith in 1797.</div><div><br></div><div>Just curious,</div><div><br></div><div>Steve Plumb<br>455 E Pond Rd<br>Nobleboro, ME 04555<br><br>207 563-8953<br><br></div><div><div>On Apr 29, 2013, at 10:29 AM, Herb Wilson wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif">Hi Jim,</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif">Thorbybes comes from the Greek thorybos, meaning noise. Pylades means faithful friend; Pylades was a friend of Orestes.</div>
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<br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Apr 29, 2013 at 9:23 AM, Jim Mason <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jim@gpnc.org" target="_blank">jim@gpnc.org</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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