SATYRS. 



Suffolk. Bentley, Coombs, &c. H. H. 

 Crewe ; Redisham and Wolsingharu Parks 

 W. M. Crowfoot ; in Old-hall Wood very 

 rare, Haverhill William Gaze; Assingham 

 Wood, near Sudbury John Grubb ; so com- 

 mon near Ipswich in 1868 that many of our 

 collectors have taken eight or ten dozen each 

 Garrett Garrett. 



Surrey. Haselmere C. G. Barrett ; for- 

 mei-ly abundant near Godalming. The late 

 Mr. Howard, of Elstead, used to take the 

 females in his garden resting on the trunks of 

 trees. I have seen at least a dozen so taken : 

 the males were seen flying about the oaks, 

 but I did not hear of one being taken E. 

 Newman. 



Sussex. Poyning's Wood W. Buckler; 

 Plashet, between Balcombe and Newick, and 

 elsewhere in the woody district of the Weald 

 E. Jenner ; Chichester W. H. Draper ; 

 Brighton, Bourne, and Ticehurst Stainton's 

 " Manual" 



Wight, Isle of. Has been taken at Fresh- 

 water and Brading J. Pristo ; near Yar- 

 mouth F. Bond. 



Wiltshire. Said to have been taken in 

 Savernake Forest, but this is very doubtful 

 T. A. Preston. 



Obs. A great deal which I thought it un- 

 necessary to transcribe has been written as to 

 the mode of capturing the Emperor with a net 

 on the end of an enormously long pole : I 

 know of no record of success with this strange 

 instrument, and cannot imagine myself pos- 

 sessed of the power to use it. The unsavoury 

 baits already described seem to offer a more 

 likely chance of capture. 



Family 6. SATYRS (in science Satyridce). 



The caterpillar is without spines, but is 

 covered with minute warts, which impart 

 to the surface a velvety appearance ; it is 

 nearly cylindrical, but tapers towards both 

 extremities, more particularly the caudal 

 extremity, which terminates in two points 

 directed backwards : the chrysalis is scarcely 

 at all angled ; the head is broad and obtuse ; 

 it is generally suspended by the tail, but 

 sometimes lies without any attachment on 



the surface of the ground : the butterfly has 

 only four legs adapted for walking ; it has 

 abruptly knobbed antennae, rounded wings, 

 and a feeble flight. There are six British 

 genera Melanagria, Erebia, Pyrarga, Saty- 

 rus, Epinephele, and CosnonympJw. 



20. Marbled White (Melanagria Qalathea'). 



20. MARBLED WHITE. The hind margin 

 of all the wings is scalloped but not angled : 

 the colours are black and white in about equal 

 proportions, and distributed in spots as shown 

 in the figure ; the coital margin of the fore 

 wings is densely sprinkled with fulvous gold 

 in the female. The under side is white, 

 slightly suffused with ochreous gray , especially 

 on the hind wings; the fore wings have 

 various blotches of smoky black, as shown in 

 the figure, and a white-pupilled black spot 

 about equidistant from the tip, the costal 

 margin, and the hind margin : the hind wings 

 have various markings of smoky green-gray, 

 with six eye-like spots forming a band parallel 

 with the hind margin; this band is inter- 

 rupted after the second spot counting from 

 the costal margin ; this interruption causes 

 the wing to look as though there had originally 

 been seven spots and the third had dropped 

 out, 



