Nuvember, 1902 



PSYCHE. 



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carinations ; palpi with compact vesti- 

 ture, the terminal. joint very short; pre- 

 costal nervure of hind wings arising 

 beyond the parting of the costal and 

 subcostal nervures ; under surface of 

 last tarsal joints with two rows of spmes. 

 Egg: Sides with vertical ribs from base 

 to summit of nearly equal height through- 

 out, or with vertical series of raised 

 points in the upper part of the egg only. 

 Caterpillar at birth : Hairs of body not 

 longer or scarcely longer than the seg- 

 ments, the ranged papillae of similar size. 

 Mature caterpillar : Body pilose without 

 spines or tubercles. Chrysalis : Dorsum 

 of abdomen either longitudinally con- 

 spicuously keeled or transversely ridged. 



Subfamily SATYRINAE. 



Butterfly : Palpi slender, strongly com- 

 pressed, heavily fringed with long scale- 

 hairs. Antennae clothed, arcuate, with 

 drooping club never abrupt. Fore legs 

 of both sexes excessively atropiiied, very 

 small and furred. Some of the nervures 

 of the fore wings swollen at the base 

 (except in some tropical forms) ; discal 

 cell of hind wings closed by a strong vein 

 (except in some tropical forms). Texture 

 of wings delicate. Generally of somber 

 coloring with ocellated markings. Egg: 

 Subspheroidal, Isroadest below the mid. 

 die, either delicately reticulate or with 

 numerous slight vertical ribs. Cater- 

 pillar at birth : Head much larger than 

 segments following. Abdominal seg- 

 ments tapering slightly from in front 

 backward, longitudinally striped ; ranged 

 appendages usually clubbed ; if not, then 



arcuate and (always ?) larger in the mid- 

 dle than next the base. Mature cater- 

 pillar: Head with simple* or no coronal 

 protuberances. Body cylindrical, pilose, 

 longitudinally striped, the last segment 

 bifurcate (except in a few tropical forms) . 

 Chrysalis : With no conspicuous promi- 

 nences, whole body well rounded. Abdo- 

 men not deeply separated from thorax, 

 with no transverse ridges and no medio- 

 dorsal carina ; margin of wings generally 

 carinate from basal wing tubercle back- 

 ward. Ventral surface nearly straight. 

 Only a single tribe, Satyrini, occurs 

 within our district. 



Tribe Satyrini. 



Butterfly : Of moderate or small size. 

 Some of the veins of the fore wing swol- 

 len at the base ; hind wings with discal 

 cell closed and only a slight or no precos- 

 tal cell. Egg: (Distinction from other 

 tribes unknown.!) Caterpillar at birth : 

 (Distinction from other tribes un- 

 known. J) Mature caterpillar : Simply 

 pilose, without fasciated hairs and with- 

 out lateral spines on the head ; forkg of 

 last body segment always present and 

 rarely of excessive length. Solitary in 

 life, and mostly nocturnal in habit. 

 Chrysalis : No distinction from other 

 tribes noted. 



* In Dynastor only (one of the tropical IJrassolini) they 

 appear to be spinUerous, 



t The only efig of the other tribes known is that of 

 Brassolis which is very much shorter than in any Satyrini 

 known. 



J The only caterpillars just from the egg of the other tribes 

 yet published are two of Brassolini known only by insuf- 

 ficient figures. 



