SATY RIN, 17 
Genus EUMENIS. 
Eumenis, Hiibner, Verz. bek. Schmett. p. 58 (1816); Samml, Exot. Schmett. 11, pl. 85 (1820-26). 
Stephens, Catal. Brit. Lep. B. M. p. 7 (1850). Scudder, Amer. Acad. A. and Sci. Boston, 1875, 
peli 
Hipparchia (part) Auctorum (nee Fabricius), 
Tuaco.—Male. Forewing elongate, subtriangular, rather narrow ; costa slightly 
arched, apex obtusely pointed, exterior margin oblique, posterior angle rounded, 
posterior margin long, straight; base of wing hairy; costal and median vein swollen 
at the base; cell long, extending to three-fifths the length, rather narrow ; disco- 
cellulars outwardly-oblique, upper radial emitted from close to subcostal, lower 
radial from the middle; median veinlets very wide apart; crossed by a medial 
discal inwardly-oblique glandular patch, which also extends within lower edge of the 
cell to beyond its end, and is clothed with laxly-raised, outwardly-curved elongated 
claviform almost transparent scales, between which are interspersed numerous dark 
coloured short androconia, which are extremely slender, attenuating to their end, 

and have a dilated tip, the androconia being scarcely perceptible, unless forcibly 
dislodged from their positions. Hindwing bluntly-ovate, exterior margin scalloped ; 
base hairy; cell long, extending more than half the wing; discocellular very long, 
oblique, recurved ; middle median starting at some distance before end of the cell. 
Palpi densely clothed in front to the tip; antennz slender, with a very short, 
broad, slightly pointed, flattened spatular club. Hyes naked. 
Aputt CarerPrntAr.—* One and a half inch in length, tapering much to the anal 
forked extremity, and a little towards the head, which is globular; ground colour of 
the back delicately mottled drab, with longitudinal stripes broadest along the middle 
segments, viz. a dorsal stripe of olive brown, very dark at the beginning of each 
segment, with a thin edging of brownish-white; subdorsal region with three 
longitudinal stripes, the first composed of a double narrow line of yellowish-brown, 
the second wider, and of the mottled ground colour, edged with paler above and 
with white beneath, the third, of similar width, is of a dark grey-brown, edged above 
with black; spiracular stripe broader, and of nearly equal width, pale ochreous- 
brown, edged with brownish-white above and below; spiracles black; ventral 
surface and legs drab colour. Head brown, delicately marked with darker brown 
stripes. Feeds on grasses.” 
Curysatis.—* Obtuse, rounded, tumid, and smooth; abdominal rings scarcely 
visible, and wholly of a deep red mahogany colour. Formed in a hollow space below 
the surface, close to the roots of the grass, yet free from them, with the particles of 
sand and earth very slightly cohering together.” (Buckler.) 
Type.—H. Semele. 
vou. 1. August 10th, 1892. Dax 

