6 LEPIBOPTERA INDICA. 



Satyrus (part), Godart, Tabl. Meth. Lep. pp. 8, 18 (1823). Boisduval, Ind. Metli. Eur. Lep. p. 19 

 (1829), id. Edit. 1840, p. 30. 



Imago. — Forewing subtriangular ; costa slightly arched, apex obtuse, exterior 

 margin oblique, even ; with an inwardly oblique transverse discal narrow glandular 

 fascia clothed with large rather broad basally-tapering raised scales, which have 

 rounded very blunt-toothed tips, and are interspersed with numerous longer blackish 

 androconia with elongated slender-bulbous base and lengthened filiform, penicillate 

 tip ; cell rather long, narrow ; costal vein swollen at the base, median less swollen. 

 Eindiuing bluntly ovate ; exterior margin very convex, slightly sinuous ; cell long, 

 broad ; two upper medians from end of cell. Palpi clothed with very long hairs in 

 front to the tip, apical joint small ; antennal club spatular. 



Adult Caterpillar. — Head rather large, globose; body villose, slightly tapering 

 at each end, with two short lateral caudal points ; green, with darker dorsal line, 

 and paler subdorsal and spiracular lines. Teeds on grasses. 



Chktsalis. — Suspended by the tail. Thorax convex ; with two short points at 

 the head ; abdomen slightly arched on the back ; green, or very dark brown, 



Tyjje. — L. Meg£era. 



Historical Note ox the Genus Satyeus.— In 1746, Linnceus (Faun. Sneciea, i. p. 238) gives to his 

 Fapilio, No. 785, the name of Satijrus as being the common one then applied to it. In 1758 (Syst. Nat. 

 i. p. 473, No. 96) he altered the name of this butterfly to Fapila Mara, quoting the earlier name (Safiji-us) 

 in a synonymic form. In the edition of the "Eauna Suec. (1761), p. 275, No. 1049, and in the " Syst. 

 Nat." of 1767, p. 771, No. 141, he also uses the name Mcera, referring, in both these works, to the 

 name Satyrvs, as its synonym. Retzius, in 1783 (Gen. et. Spes. Ins. p. 32, No. 16), gives Sati/riw as the 

 name of a species, and quotes mwra as its synonym. Latreille, in 1805 (Gen. Cr. et. Ins. xiv. p. 103), 

 under his division " Satyri," of Nymphalis, among other species, gives that of Satyrus (as a synonym of 

 Megfera), and as one of the species of that division. 



From the above statement, it will be seen that Satyrus is the name of a species synonymous with the 

 Linnoean micrct; the name Satyrus, therefore, cannot be used either in a subgeneric or generic sense, as has 

 been subsequently done by the following authors, viz. : Panzer (Faun. Ins. Germ. Heft. 28 — 34 (1796), where 

 ho describes and figures Papilio Satyrus Galathea, P. S. Hypsipyle and P. S. Fauna, and again in Heft 

 76 (1801), the P. S.Semele and P. S. Cinxia. Cederheilm, in 1798 (Faun. Ingr. Prod. p. 208), describes 

 Fap. Safyrus Hyperanthus, P. S. PampJdlus, P. S. Maira, and other species, and in 1810 Latreille 

 (Consid. Gen. p. 440) established his genus "Satyrus," giving as types, Tewcer, PMdippus, Sophorw, 

 Piera, Galathea, and Mcera, but also intending it to embrace within it all the species of the group. 



Subsequently the name " Satyrus " has been adopted in a generic form, in this Subfamily, by Godart 

 Eiicycl. M6th. 460 (1819) ; by Swainson, Zool. Illust. 1, iii. pi. 159 (1822) ; by Boisduval, Index Mt'th. 

 Eur. Lep. p. 19 (1829), and in Edit. (1840), p. 30; by Wcstwood, in Doubleday and llewitson's Gen. D. 

 Lep. p. 388 (1851); Butler, Entom. iii. p. 279 (1867), id. Catal. Satyridte, Brit. Mns. p. 59 (1868), id. 

 Ent. Mo. Mag. (1868), p. 194 ; Crotch, Cistula, Entom. i. p. 91 (1872); Kirby, Syn. Catal. D. Lep. p. 73 

 (1871) ; Staudinger, Catal. Lep. Ear. p. 27 (1871), and others. 



Moreover, the name " Satyrus " was previously used for a genus of Mammals, by Tulpius, in 1739 

 (Observ. Medicee, p. 270), and is also occupied, through " Satyra," in Diptera, by Meigen, in 1803. 



