338 PAPILIONINA [PARARGE 



several blotches in disc, two or three towards tornus, and a 

 large subapical patch cut by dark veins brownish-orange ; a 

 black white-centred spot in subapical patch. Hindwings dark 

 fuscous ; two posterior brownish - orange bands, second con- 

 taining usually three black white-centred spots. Hindwings 

 beneath lighter-marked, subterminal ocelli small, black, white- 

 centred, placed in orange brown-ringed spots. 



Britain to Argyll and Aberdeen, Ireland, common, but has 

 disappeared from some districts ; Europe, Asia Minor, N. 

 Africa ; 5, 6, 8, 9. Larva green, irrorated with whitish ; dorsal 

 line darker green ; subdorsal hardly paler ; spiracular whitish : 

 anal points pinkish ; head green : on grasses ; 6-4. 



3. SATYRUS, F. 



Eyes glabrous. Club of antennae abrupt. Middle tibiae 

 less than half tarsi, with strong apical spine. Forewings : 

 lower margin of cell greatly dilated towards base. 



A genus of some extent, ranging through most of the 

 Northern hemisphere. Pupa smooth, dark red-brown, beneath 

 surface of ground. 



1. S. semele, L. 48-64 mm. Forewings dark brown; a 

 large posterior band more or less suffused with pale ochreous, 

 containing two dark fuscous spots with white centres. Hind- 

 wings as forewings, but band more orange posteriorly, upper 

 spot absent. Forewings beneath suffused with orange-ochreous 

 in disc. Hindwings beneath brownish, strigulated with dark 

 fuscous ; an irregular suffused whitish median fascia. 



Britain to Ross, Ireland, on heaths and downs, local ; Europe, 

 Asia Minor, N. Africa ; 7, 8. Larva greyish-ochreous ; dorsal 

 line brown ; subdorsal yellow-brownish ; lateral dark brown, 

 partly blackish -edged above; spiracular light brown; head 

 brown, darker-marked : on grasses, sometimes subterranean in 

 habit by day ; 8-6. 



4. EPINEPHELE, Hb. 



Eyes glabrous. Club of antennae very elongate and gradual. 

 Forewings : lower margin of cell greatly dilated towards base. 



A small genus, mainly European and Central Asiatic. Pupa 

 rounded-prominent, suspended by the tail. 



1. Forewings with black white-centred spot towards 



apex . . . .1. 



,, without such spot . 3. hyperanthus. 



2. Subapical black spot containing one white dot 2. janira. 



two white dots 1. tithonus. 



