PARARGE. 207 



Palocarctic and European. The East Indian species nearly 

 always have the hind-wings angulated, with a more or less dis- 

 tinct tail at the outer angle. One genus, Ptychandra, Felder, 

 found in the Philippines, is of a rich blue on the upper side 

 of the male, and another genus, Ccelites, Westwood, from the 

 Indo-Malayan Region, has the inner-margin of the hind-wings 

 bordered with blue. The rest are mostly brown, with white 

 or tawny markings ; among them is one of the largest of the 

 Satyrince, viz., Neorina loivii (Doubl. and Hew.), from Borneo 

 and Sumatra. This insect measures nearly four inches across 

 the wings, which are dark brown, the fore-wings produced, and 

 the hind-wings with a short thick tail, and a large cream- 

 coloured blotch at the apex of the hind-wings, extending to the 

 adjacent portion of the fore-wings. 



Our British species of Pararge, though small, and hardly 

 typical of the bulk of the genera placed in this section, must 

 here serve to illustrate it. 



GENUS TARARGE. 



Pararge, Hiibner, Verz. bek. Schmett, p. 59 (1816); Schatz 

 and Rober, Exot. Schmett., ii., p. 202 (1S89). 



Lasiommata, Westwood, Brit. Butt., p. 65 (1840); id. Gen. 

 Diurn. Lepid., p. 385 (1S51). 



Type, P. egeria (L.). 



Eyes hairy, the antennas gradually formed ; palpi with the 

 terminal joint short. Wings with the costal nervure much 

 thickened at the base, the median nervure slightly so, and the 

 hind-margins distinctly denticulated. Colour brown, mostly 

 with tawny or yellowish-white markings ; an eye-spot present 

 near the tip of the fore-wings, and a row of sub-apical eyes on 

 the hind-wings. 



This genus is confined to the Palaearctic Region, and we 

 have only one species in Britain. 



