184 rhopalocera africje au8trali3. 



Family 6.— SATYRID^. 



Satyrid^ (pars), Swains. 

 Satyrides, Boisd. 

 Satyri, Latr. 



Nymphalid^ (pars), Westw. 

 Satyrites, JBlanch. 

 Satyridi, Steph. 

 Satyrit^, Chenu. 



Imago. — Head rather small : eyes often clothed with short 

 hair ; palpi usually much flattened laterally, rather long, 

 porrect, ascendant, generally roughly hairy (in Erehia to the 

 very tip of the terminal joint) ; antennce generally short and 

 slender, the club very variable in form, being abrupt, rounded 

 and flattened in some Genera, while in others it is very 

 elongate and almost cylindrical. Thorax short and slender 

 in the more typical Genera, and never large or robust. 

 Wings large and broad, but of weak structure, variable in 

 outline, but rarely angulated, most commonly entire or 

 moderately dentated on hind-margin ; one or more of the 

 nervures of the fore-wing usually more or less swollen or 

 dilated at the base ; discoidal cell of both wings closed ; 

 inner-marginal groove formed by hind-ivings shallow and 

 incomplete, generally leaving uncovered the apical half of 

 abdomen. Legs rather short and slender, with the femora 

 usually but slightly pilose ; the first pair very small and 

 imperfect (never so densely hairy as in many Nymphalidcs), 

 especially in $, where they are often with difficulty dis- 

 coverable among the hairs of the thorax. Abdomen slender, 

 usually not more than two-thirds the length of hind-wings. 



Larva. — Smooth or pubescent, attenuated towards hinder 

 extremity, which terminates in a bifid fork. Head more or 

 less bifid, or with two distinct horns. 



Pupa. — Not acutely angulated ; head bifid ; suspended by 

 the tail only.*' 



The Satyridi form a very distinct group of Butterflies, 

 well characterised by their general weakness of structure as 

 compared with the Nymphalid^, the thorax being small, 

 short, and compressed, while the wings, though broad and 



* Certain "fcuropean species of the Genus Satyrvs (S. Circe, Semele, &c.) 

 are, however, known not to suspend themselves alter the usual manner, but 

 to form C0C00U3 of silk and earth, like those of many Moths, in which to 

 Msume the pupal state. 



