2i6 LLOYD'S NATURAL HISTORY 



wanting. Costal nervure always, and median and sub-median 

 nervures generally, inflated. 



3. Erebia section. Always two ocellated spots towards the 

 tip of the fore-wings ; others frequently developed, but some- 

 times obsolete, the front ones often confluent. Costal nervure 

 inflated or thickened, but never the median and sub-median 

 nervures. 



4. Hipparchia section. Generally only one eye towards the 

 apex of the fore-wings, but often a second, between the two 

 lower median nervules. Costal nervure inflated, and oc- 

 casionally the median and sub-median nervures also. 



I. EUPTYCHIA SECTION. 



With the exception of Palaonympha, Butler, which is 

 Chinese, the few genera of this section are all American. 

 The principal genus after Euptychia is Taygetis^ Hiibner, 

 which much resembles it, but includes larger species, measur- 

 ing from two to four inches across the wings. Oressinoma 

 typhla (Doubl. and Hew.), mentioned as an aberrant genus 

 of this section, hardly resembles a Satyrid. It expands rather 

 more than an inch and a half, and is white, with brown bor- 

 ders, and short but very broad wings, on the under side is a 

 stone-coloured sub-marginal line, bordered on the outside by 

 an orange one, which is deeply zig-zag on the upper part of 

 the hind-wings. 



GENUS EUPTYCHIA. 



Euptychia, Hiibner, Verz. bek. Schmett, p. 53 (1816); West- 

 wood, Gen. Diurn. Lepid., p. 372 (1851); Butler, P. Z. S., 

 1866, p. 458; 1867, p. 104; Schatz and Rober, Exot. 

 Schmett., ii., p. 208 (1889). 

 This is one of the largest genera of the Sub-family. It 



probably numbers about 200 species at present, and is ex- 



