SATYRIN^. 



Genus EUMENIS. 



jFamems, Hiitner, Verz. bek, Schmett. p. 58 (1816); Samml. Exot. Schmett. 11, pi. 85(1820-26). 



Stephens, Catal. Brit. Lep. B. M. p. 7 (1850). Scudder, Amer. Acad. A. and Sci. Boston, lti75, 



p. 171. 

 Hipparehia (part) Auctorum (nee Fabricius). 



Imago. — Male. Forewing elongate, subtriangular, ratlier narrow ; costa slightly 

 arched, apex obtusely pointed, exterior margin oblique, posterior angle rounded, 

 posterior margin long, straight; base of wing hairy ; costal and median vein swollen 

 at the base ; cell long, extending to three-fifths the length, rather narrow ; disco- 

 cellulars outwardly-oblique, upper radial emitted from close to subcostal, lower 

 radial from the middle ; median veinlets very wide apart ; crossed by a medial 

 discal inwardly-oblique glandular patch, which also extends within lower edge of the 

 cell to beyond its end, and is clothed with laxly-raised, outwardly-curved elongated 

 claviform almost transparent scales, between which are interspersed numerous dark 

 coloured short androconia, which are extremely slender, attenuating to their end, 

 and have a dilated tip, the androconia being scarcely perceptible, unless forcibly 

 dislodged from their positions. Hindwing bluntly-ovate, exterior margin scalloped ; 

 base hairy ; cell long, extending more than half the wing ; discocellular very long, 

 oblique, recurved ; middle median starting at some distance before end of the cell. 

 Palpi densely clothed in front to the tip; antennse slender, with a very short, 

 broad, slightly pointed, flattened spatular club. Eijes naked. 



Adult Caterpillar. — " One and a half inch in length, tapering much to the anal 

 forked extremity, and a little towards the head, which is globular; ground colour of 

 the back delicately mottled drab, with longitudinal stripes broadest along the middle 

 segments, viz. a dorsal stripe of olive brown, very dark at the beginning of each 

 segment, with a thin edging of brownish-white ; subdorsal region with three 

 longitudinal stripes, the first composed of a double narrow line of yellowish-brown, 

 the second wider, and of the mottled ground colour, edged with paler above and 

 with white beneath, the third, of similar width, is of a dark grey -brown, edged above 

 with black; spiracular stripe broader, and of nearly equal width, pale ochreous- 

 brown, edged with brownish -white above and below ; spiracles black ; ventral 

 surface and legs drab colour. Head brown, delicately marked with darker brown 

 stripes. Feeds on grasses." 



Chrysalis. — " Obtuse, rounded, tumid, and smooth ; abdominal rings scarcely 

 visible, and wholly of a deep red mahogany colour. Formed in a hollow space below 

 the surface, close to the roots of the grass, yet free from them, with the particles of 

 sand and earth very slightly cohering together." (Buckler.) 



Type. — E. Semele. 

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