2*20 THK ENTOMOLOGIST. 



out the request from Government that each one would aid in 

 stamping out the new comer, or diminishing its ravages. 



We cannot hope to escape it. As at first it transferred 

 itself from the Solanum hirsutum to our own potato, and on 

 its journey has strayed again to other vegetables, we may 

 hope that the attack will not be concentrated on one crop; 

 but though to all appearance the beetle is coming, as with 

 reasonable care it has been kept down in Canada and the 

 States, so it may be, if we will follow the same plan, here. 



As yet iesv of us are acquainted with the habits of the 

 Doryophora from personal observation ; but we have reliable 

 information froui many sources, and amongst these the 

 reports of Prol. Riley, Mr. A. Murray, and the Canadian 

 Minister of Agriculture, from which 1 have taken some detail 

 of the life-history and remedy. 



In the illustration 1 have also benefitted by the specimens 

 placed by Mr. Murray, at Kew, and at the Bethnal Green 

 Museum. 



Spring Grove, near Islewoi-th, 

 August 16, 1877. 



INTKODUCTOEY PAPERS ON LEPTDOPTERA. 



By VV. F. KiEBY, 



Assist.-Naturalist in the Museum, Koyal Dublin Society. 



No. IV. NYMPHALID^— SATYRIN^. 

 Part I. 



Thb; SatyruKB are a group not ren)arkable for size and 

 beauty, but are especially interesting to European Lepi- 

 dopterists, because they are so well represented in this part 

 of the globe, nearly a third of the European butterflies being 

 Saiyrince. They are usually small or middle-sized butter- 

 flies, of dark colours, with rounded wings (sometimes more or 

 less dentated, and occasionally ending in a short tail), and are 

 nearly always ornamented with ocellated spots. They cannot 

 well be coufpunded with any other butterflies: the perfectly- 

 closed hind-wing cells and the presence of ocellated spots on 

 the wings will suflQce to se))arate them from any group 

 except the Brassoliiue ; but these are large and robust 

 insects, with a family likeness of their own, which would 



