Genus Satyrus 
Genus SATYRUS, Westwood 
(The Wood-nymphs) 
,l Fluttering, like some vain, painted butterfly, 
From glade to glade along the forest path.” 
Arnold, Light of Asia. 
Butterfly. — Butterflies of medium size, their wings marked with 
eye-like spots, or ocelli. Upon the upper surface they are generally 
obscurely colored of some shade of gray or brown, 
occasionally marked with bands of yellow. On 
the under side the wings are generally beautifully 
striated and spotted, with the eye-like spots more 
prominent. The costal vein at the base is greatly 
swollen; the median and submedian veins less 
so. The first and second subcostal nervules 
arise very near the end of the cell, slightly be¬ 
fore it. The outer margin of the fore wing is 
evenly rounded; the outer margin of the hind 
wing somewhat scalloped; the head small, the 
eyes of moderate size, full, naked; the antennae 
gradually thickening to a broadly rounded club, 
which is slightly depressed; the palpi slender, 
compressed, profusely clothed beneath with long hairs. The 
fore legs are very small. 
Egg. —Short, barrel-shaped, greatly diminishing in size on 
the upper half; truncated at the summit; the sides furnished 
with a large number of vertical ribs, not very high, with numer¬ 
ous delicate cross-lines between them. At the summit the ribs 
are connected by a waved, raised elevation. 
Caterpillar. — Head globular; body cylindrical, tapering from 
the middle forward and backward; provided with short and 
slender diverging anal horns. 
Chrysalis .—Shaped very much as in the genus Debis, from 
which it is hardly distinguishable. Generally green in color. 
This genus includes numerous species which are more or less 
subject to varietal modifications. In the following pages I have 
treated as species a number of forms which by some writers are 
reckoned as mere varieties. Whether the view of those who 
regard these forms in the light of varieties is correct is not per- 
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Fig. i 2 i . — Neu- 
ration of the genus 
Satyrus. (After 
Scudder.) 
