6 LEPIDOPTERA INDICA. 
Satyrvs (part), Godart, Tabl. Méth. Lep. pp. 8, 18 (1823). Boisduval, Ind. Mcth. Eur. Lep. p. 19 
(1829), zd. Edit. 1840, p. 80. 
Imaco.—Forewing subtriangular ; costa slightly arched, apex obtuse, exterior 
margin oblique, even ; with an inwardly oblique transverse discal narrow glandular 
fascia clothed with large rather broad basally-tapering raised scales, which have 
rounded very blunt-toothed tips, and are interspersed with numerous longer blackish 
androconia with elongated slender-bulbous base and lengthened filiform, penicillate 
tip; cell rather long, narrow ; costal vein swollen at the base, median less swollen. 
Hindwing bluntly ovate ; exterior margin very convex, slightly sinuous; cell long, 
broad ; two upper medians from end of cell. Palpi clothed with very long hairs in 
front to the tip, apical joint small; antennal club spatular. 
Aputt Carerrittar.—Head rather large, globose; body villose, slightly tapering 
at each end, with two short lateral caudal points; green, with darker dorsal line, 
and paler subdorsal and spiracular lies. Feeds on grasses. 
CurysaLis.—Suspended by the tail. Thorax convex ; with two short points at 
the head; abdomen slightly arched on the back ; green, or very dark brown. 
Type.—L. Megeera. 

Historicat Note on tHE Genus Satyrus.—In 1746, Linneus (Faun, Sueciea, i. p. 238) gives to his 
Papilio, No. 785, the name of Satyrus as being the common one then applied to it. In 1758 (Syst. Nat. 
i. p. 473, No. 96) he altered the name of this butterfly to Papila Mera, quoting the earlier name (Satyrus) 
in a synonymie form. In the edition of the ‘‘ Fauna Suee. (1761), p. 275, No. 1049, and in the “ Syst. 
Nat.” of 1767, p.771, No. 141,he also uses the name Mra, referring, in both these works, to the 
name Satyrus, as its synonym, Retzius, in 1783 (Gen. et. Spec. Ins. p. 32, No. 16), gives Satyrus as the 
name of a species, and quotes mera as its synonym. Latreille, in 1805 (Gen. Cr. et. Ins. xiv. p. 103), 
of Nymphalis, among other species, gives that of Satyrus (as a synonym of 
Megzera), and as one of the species of that division. 
under his division “ Satyrz,” 
From the above statement, it will be seen that Satyrus is the name of a species synonymous with the 
Linnzan mera; the name Satyrus, therefore, cannot be used either in a subgeneric or generic sense, as has 
been subsequently done by the following authors, viz.: Panzer (Faun. Ins. Germ. Heft. 23—34 (1796), where 
he describes and figures Papilio Satyrus Galathea, P. S. Hypsipyle and P. S. Fauna, and again in Heft 
76 (1801), the P. S. Semele and P. 8S. Cinzia. Cederheilm, in 1798 (Faun. Ingr. Prod. p. 208), describes 
Pap. Satyrus Hyperanthus, P. S. Pamphilus, P. S. Mera, and other species, and in 1810 Latreille 
(Consid. Gén. p. 440) established his genus “ Saryrus,” giving as types, Teucer, Phidippus, Sophore, 
Piera, Galathea, and Mera, but also intending it to embrace within it all the species of the group. 
Subsequently the name “Satyrus” has been adopted in a generic form, in this Subfamily, by Godart 
Eneycl. Méth. 460 (1819) ; by Swainson, Zool. Ilust. 1, iii. pl. 159 (1822); by Boisduval, Index Méth. 
Hur. Lep. p. 19 (1829), and in Edit. (1840), p. 830; by Westwood, in Doubleday and Hewitson’s Gen, D. 
Lep. p. 388 (1851) ; Butler, Entom. iii, p. 279 (1867), zd. Catal. Satyride, Brit. Mus. p. 59 (1868), dd. 
dnt. Mo. Mag. (1868), p. 194 ; Crotch, Cistula, Entom. i. p. 91 (187 )5 Kirby, Syn. Catal. D. Lep. p. 73 
(1871) ; Staudinger, Catal. eps Eur. p. 27 (1871), and others. 
Moreover, the name “Satyrus ” was previously used for a genus of Mammals, by Tulpius, in 1739 
(Observ. Medice, p. 270), and is also occupied, through “ Satyra,” in Diptera, by Meigen, in 1803. 
