222 LEPJDOPTERA. 



Esper, a smaller species, differing on the under side of the 

 hind wings.] 



Genus 3. SATYRUS. 



Antenna rather long, with a distinct, ovate, spatulate, 

 club. Fore wings somewhat pointed, with rounded hind 

 margins, and having the subcostal and median nervures 

 dilated near the base. Hind wings rounded, or very slightly 

 scalloped, and with the under sides prettily marbled with grey, 

 brown, and whitish. 



Larv.^ tapering, or fusiform, with two points at the anal 

 extremity. 



Vvpjp. smooth and rouuded, tapering to the tail. Usually 

 placed just beneath the surlace of the ground in a cavity, or 

 even in a slight cocoon. 



1. S. Semele, L. — Expanse If to 2;| inches. Dai-k brown, 

 obscurely banded with yellowish, and with two large ocellated 

 black spots in the pale baud of the fore wings. 



Costa of fore wings long, flatly arched ; hind margin 

 oblique, very slightly rounded. All the wings dark brown, 

 suffused with glossy paler scales from the base. Male witli 

 an obscure oblique bar of dark, densely-crowded, scales 

 through the middle of the fore wings, from near the base of 

 the inner margin, and divided by the paler nervures. Beyond 

 it are three or four obscure fulvous dashes forming an indis- 

 tinct transverse series, in two of which are large round black 

 spots, sometimes white-centred. Hind wings with a very 

 broad paler brown band, angulated at its inner edge, before 

 the hind margin, in which band are some fulvous dashes ; 

 and, near the anal angle, a white-centred black spot. Female 

 decidedly larger, with the costal margin pale ; devoid of the 

 blackish brown oblique central bar, but having a strongly 

 angulated, central, blackish, transverse line, beyond which is 

 a broad, interrupted, brownish ochreous, transverse band, 



