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PALAEONYMPHA. By Dr. A. Seitz. — Alphabetical List of the Palearctic Satyrids. 



through above. From South-Eastern Russia through Transcaucasia, Armenia and Western Siberia to Kuldscha 



dohrni. and the Altai. — The form from Eastern Siberia and Tibet, dohrni Z., has a broader, more whitish metallic 



biocellata. margin. — In the form biocellata Stgr. two ocelli of the underside shine through above, where they sometimes 



striatula. appear as pupilied ocelli , and in striatula Ehr. there are distinct light veins even on the upperside of the 



wings and the row of ocelli on the underside is surrounded with pale scaling and is thus placed in a kind 



nervosa, of light band. — nervosa Mofscli. (= albovenosa Frarh.) (48 i) is very like the preceding, but in both sexes 



without ocelli on the underside; from the Amur, and, it is said, also from Japan. I did not succeed in 



finding it there, and the nature of the country appears to me to exclude its occurrence. — Nothing is known 



to me about the early life-historj- of Triplujsu. They are insects of the steppes, where they appear in June and 



July, and are locally not rare. The ?? seem to fly very little, and are not even easily disturbed ; the cfcf 



fly low down over the ground, prol)ing one tuft of grass after another: when disturbed they i\y up a few 



yards into the air, but soon come down again to the ground. 



opaliiia. 



22. Genus: Palaeoii^ lupha Bth. 



At the end of the Satyrids we place a genus based on a single moderately small brown species 

 which seems rather out of place among the Satyrids of the Old World. A superficial resemblance connects 

 it with Mjicalesis, Ypthinui and Apliantupus. Bltler draws attention to the similaritj" with the purel\" American 

 genus Eiipfijchia. He gives the brand-spot present in the cfcf of Palaeoni/mpha as a distinguishing charac- 

 teristic between the two genera, but Leech points out that this scent-organ in Asiatic Satyrids is generally 

 very variable, and some <fcf of P. opa/ina from the Tring Jluseum now before me indeed prove the scent- 

 organ to be inconstant. Therefore there remain as essential difi'erences from Euptychia the shape of the cell 

 of the forewing and the greater length of the last palpal segment in Pnhici.nijinphi. Indeed, all species of 

 Euptijchiii known to me have a much more slenderly built body, and, instead of the dense hairs covering 

 the body of the Palearctic Satj'rids, are clothed with nuich finer, often scale-hke hairs, the bristles of the 

 palpi, moreover, have a different direction, etc. Nothing more is known [of the life-history except that the 

 only species is widely distributed and is common from the mouth of the Yang-tse-kiang to its upper course. 



P. opalina Btlr. (48 i). Upperside uniformly dark brown, with an apical ocellus on the forewing 

 and an anal one on the hindwing. A blakish line runs through the middle of both wings, which is curved- 

 angulate in the middle of the hindwing. On the underside of the forewing, on the pale distal area, there 

 are below the yellow-bordered ocellus some transverse dark spots partly with opalescent centres; the hind- 

 wing bears 2 anal and one apical ocellus, to which may be added some more, accessory, rudimentary ocelli 

 or similar opalescent spots as on the forewing. A dark line separates the pale marginal portion from the 

 darker disc, and the latter is again traversed by a blackish line. 



Corrections and Additions. 



MelaiKiryia hijluta iratiica is on Plate 39 b erroneously named parthica. 



Alphabetical List 



with references to the original descriiitions of the Palearctic forms of Satj-rids. 

 * signifies that the form is figured in the place ((uoted. 



abbreviata Epin. Seitz. Macrol. I. vol. 1, p. 138. * 



abdelkader Sat. Pier. Ann. See. Ent. Fr. 1837, p. 19. 



abramovi Sat. Ersch. Hor. Ent. Ross. 18, p. 24.5. 



accrescens Coen. Stgr.-Reb. Cat. l.ep. Pal., p. (i6. 



achine Par. Scop. Ent. Carn, p. 1.56. 



achinoides Par. Btlr. Cist. Entom. II, p. 283. 



actaea .Sat. Esp. Schmett. Abbild. * 



adrasta Par. Hbn. Samnilg. Eur. Schmett. * 



adrastoides Par. Bien. Diss., p. 'AQ. 



adriatica :\Iel. Seitz. Macrol. I. vol. 1, p. 116. * 



adyte Er. Hbn. Sammlg. Eur. Schmett. * 



aegeria Par. L. Syst. Nat. (X), p. 13. 



aello <)en. Hbn. Sammlg. Eur. Schmett. * 



aethiopella Er. Stgr. Iris 10, p. 324. 



aethiops Er. Esp. Schmett. Abbild. * 



afer Er. Esp. Schmett. Abbild. * 



agda Sat. Frulist. Guben. Ent. Ztschr. 1908, p. 359. 



agrestis Xeope Obertli. Et. d'Ent. II, p. 27. * 



ajanensis Er. Men. Enum. Mus. Pet. II, p. 104. 



alaica Sat. Gr.-Grsfi. Rom. Mem. Lep. 4, p. 486. 



albescens Ypth. Pouj. Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. 1885, p. XLI. 



albicans Xeope Leech. Butt. China I, p. 54. * 



albida Epin. Rnssel. Entomologist 1904, p. 125. 



albipuncta Caller. Leeds. Entomologist 23, p. 31. 



albofasciata Er. Hofn. Wien. Ent. Ztschr. 1883, p. 193. 



albolineata Zn]jh. PouJ. Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. 1884, p. CLV. 



albomarginata Epin. Fall. Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. 1883, p. 21. 



albovenosa Sat. Aiist. Le Natural. 7, p. 142. 



alcmene Er. Gr.-Grsfi. Hor. Ent. Ross. 1891, p. 457. 



alcyone Sat. W. V., p. 169. 



alda ( »en. Anst. Le Xatural. 1895, p. 84. 



alecto Er. Hbn. Sammlg. Eur. Schmett. Fig. 515. * 



alexandra (^.oen. Ri'ifil. F'al. Gross-Schmett., p. 624. 



alexandra Er. Stgr. Stett. Zg. 1887, p. 55. 



algirica Sat. Obert/t. Et. d'Ent. 1, p. 27. 



allionia Sat. F. Spec. Ins., p. 83. 



almangoviae Er. Stgr. Iris 8, p. 287. * 



alpina Er. Eiw. Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. 1899, p. 351. 



