SUBFAMILY SATYRIN/E (THE SATYRS) 
u Aught unsavory or unclean 
Hath my insect never seen; 
But violets and bilberry bells, 
Maple-sap and daffodils, 
Grass with green flag half-mast high, 
Succory to match the sky, 
Columbine with horn of honey, 
Scented fern and agrimony, 
Clover, catch-fly, adder’s-tongue, 
And brier-roses dwelt among.” 
Emerson. 
The butterflies belonging to this subfamily are, for the most 
part, of medium size, and are generally obscure in color, being of 
some shade of brown or gray, though a few species within our 
territory are brightly colored. Gaily colored species belonging 
to this subfamily are more numerous in the tropics of both hemi¬ 
spheres. The wings are very generally ornamented, especially upon 
the under side, by eye-like spots, dark, pupiled in the center 
with a point of lighter color, and ringed around with one or 
more light circles. They are possessed of a weak flight, flitting 
and dancing about among herbage, and often hiding among the 
weeds and grasses, Most of them are forest-loving insects, 
though a few inhabit the cold and bleak summits of mountains 
and grassy patches near the margins of streams in the far North, 
while some are found on the treeless prairies of the West. In 
the warmer regions of the Gulf States a few species are found 
which have the habit of flitting about the grass of the roadsides 
and in open spaces about houses. The veins of the fore wings 
are generally greatly swollen at the base, enabling them thus to 
be quickly distinguished from all other butterflies of this family. 
The eggs, so far as we have knowledge of them, are subspher- 
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