SATYRIDJE. 1.91 



escalloped, often with a marked projection or short tail at 

 extremity of first median nervule. Legs short, rather stout, 

 not hairy (except first imperfect pair, which are clothed with 

 short soft hairs in hoth sexes), but beset with very short 

 minute bristles. Abdomen slender, little more than half the 

 length of hind-wings. 



LARVA. Elongate, longitudinally striated ; head with two 

 vertical horns ; tail with two obliquely-projecting points. 

 (Chenu.) 



PUPA. Short, thick - r slightly contracted towards abdomi- 

 nal region. (Chenu.) 



The Genus Dekis, to which I have referred the species 

 provisionally placed under Satyrus in my paper in "Vol.. I of 

 the Third Series of the Entomological Society's Transactions, 

 is proper to Eastern Asia, but a single species is found in 

 North America. The South African species has the fore-wing 

 without apical production, and only a slight projection in 

 hind-wing (more marked in ? ).. 



108. Debis dendrophilus. /-^ ' 3/.8- 



Satyrus dendrophilus, Trimen, Tr. Ent. Soc., Lond., 3rd 



[Ser., I, p. 399. 

 Exp. 2 in. 6 lin. 2 in. 10 lin. 



Dull-brown. Fore-wing .- a fuTvous-ochreous tinge over 

 basal half and to near anal angle ; beyond middle, an irregu- 

 larly-sinuate transverse row of seven spots, ill-defined exter- 

 nally, from costa to sub-median nervure ; the spot on costal 

 edge whitish, the others ochreous, elongated longitudinally, 

 the largest between second and third median nervules ; 

 beyond these, a sub-marginal row of five small whitish spots, 

 indistinctly ringed with blackish, from fourth sub-costal to 

 second median nervule ; a pale-brown hind-marginal border, 

 divided by a dark-brown line. Hind-wing: fulvous-ochreous ; 

 hind-marginal border as in fore-wing, but wider, with another 

 dark line separating it from the ground-colour ; a sub-mar- 

 ginal row of seven white-pupilled, rounded, black spots, the 

 last of which, above sub-median nervure close to anal angle, 

 is sometimes bipupillate; inner-marginal region pale-brownish. 

 UNDER-SIDE. Paler, with a slight violaceous lustre. Fore- 

 wing : markings similar, fainter ; a dark, waved streal^ crossing 

 discoidal cell, which has likewise a faint- ochreous and two 

 faint-whitish transverse markings ; row of whitish spots- as 

 above, but the second distinctly ringed with black and yellow; 

 apex suffused with faint-brownish. Hind-wing : same colour 



