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1. S. satellitia, L.— Expanse 1| to If inch. Fore wings 

 elongated, the hind margin expanded and scalloped; rich 

 chestnut-red marbled with darker ; the lines black ; reni- 

 form stigma white or yellow with a similar dot above and 

 below. Hind wings smoky- black. 



Antennae of the male thick, simple, minutely ciliated, red- 

 brown, whiter at the base ; palpi short, broadly and densely 

 tufted ; eyes shining black, lashes at front and back curled 

 over, brown-black ; head thickly tufted, pale chestnut dusted 

 on the top with white ; collar of the same colour, with a 

 dusting of white toward the back ; thorax broad, squared, 

 and smooth, except that between the two halves of the collar 

 arises a tall narrow crest or tuft, erect and almost conical, 

 chestnut-brown, as is the rest of the thorax ; fascicles smoky- 

 white ; abdomen pale smoky-brown, flattened, and much 

 dilated behind ; lateral tufts broad, anal tufts rather nar- 

 row, very flat, all pale tawny. Fore wings elongated, blunt ; 

 costa a little arched at the base and also close to the tip, 

 but otherwise almost straight ; apex angulated ; hind margin 

 rounded but expanded below the apex, and very neatly and 

 beautifully scalloped or crenulated throughout ; dorsal mar- 

 gin nearly straight ; colour rich bright chestnut ; lines 

 obscure, the basal being a slender partial purple-red streak, 

 edged outwardly with paler ; first line erect, slender, nearly 

 straight, purple-red ; second line also erect and but little 

 angulated or bent, leaden-black with a faint clouding of the 

 same on the nervures on each side ; subterminal line a faint, 

 rippled, cloudy pale chestnut thread, in a large, rather ovate, 

 deep chestnut band, which fills the hind marginal space ; 

 orbicular stigma hardly perceptible, or, if visible, only as a 

 pair of small round paler clouds ; reniform stigma the only 

 conspicuous marking on the wing, short, lunate, pure white 

 or orange-yellow, with a similar dot each at its upper and 

 lower corners (a sort of half moon with two satellites, whence 

 its name), costa beyond the middle faintly dotted with yellow; 

 extreme hind margin exquisitely edged by a rich red crescent 



