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SUB-FAMILY SATYRIN-ffi. 



Characters: 1. Small or medium-sized butterflies, 

 having the under-surface of the wings or- 

 namented with eye-spots. Similar spots 

 may occur on the upper surface. 



2. The green-brown larva, smooth or sparsely 

 covered with hairs. It tapers towards head 

 and tail, and the latter is forked. Food 

 chiefly grasses: feeds at night. 



3. Pupa short, not angular; suspended by the 

 tail, except in two or three species, which 

 pupate on the ground. Note that whereas, 

 in other species if the attachment is taken 

 away, so that the insect has nothing to pusli 

 against when emerging, the result is a 

 cripple; with such natural types though it 

 has nothing to press against, it does not 

 emerge as a cripple. 



Waterhouse and Lyell record: ''The Satyrinae are 

 essentially shade-loving species, usually found in 

 wooded gullies and in the shadow of cliffs or trees. 

 They are often to be seen resting in company in 

 cavities of a cliff face, or beneath overhanging rocks. 

 At dusk they are sometimes so sluggish that they 

 may be lifted from their resting place with the fingers 

 or forceps. Their flight is weak, the one exception 

 being Mclanitis^ which has a swift, elusive flight 

 >vhen disturbed in the daytime. AH the species 



