152 LEPIDOFTERA INDICA. 



On this interesting subject Mr. G. F. Hampson, in tis "Notes and List of the 

 Butterflies of the Nilgiris " (Journ. Asiat. Soc. Bengal, 1888, 347) states that "most 

 of the species have four broods, two in the dry season and two in the wet season; 

 but some species have only the two wet-season broods. Seasonal dimorphism is 

 rather difficult to study on the Nilgiris, owing to the fact that the Western and North- 

 western Slopes get heavy rains during the South-west monsoon and hardly any during 

 the North-east ; while the Eastern and South-eastern Slopes have their wet season 

 during the North-east monsoon and get little of the South-west ; and, consequently, 

 the wet and dry-season broods are some three months later in appearing on the 

 Southern and Eastern Slopes than on the Western and Northern, and the two forms 

 get much mingled in the intermediate districts, which partially get both monsoons." 



Geographical Distribution. — " This subfamily is more widely spread over the 

 globe than any other similar group of butterflies, being universally present wherever 

 butterflies occur. Its members extend to the polar colds and alpine summits, and 

 embrace several genera peculiar to such regions. Yet, wherever they occur, the 

 Satyrinse can be recognized by their peculiar facies, and have nowhere lost their 

 characteristic flight and habits." (Scudder, 1. c. p. 121.) Of the genera occurring 

 within our limits " some few are purely Indian ; others are Asiatic and Malayan ; 

 and again, others belong only to the Palsearctic region, and occur within our limits 

 only in the mountains on the North and West." (de Niceville, Butt. Ind. i. 97.) 



Key to the Indian Genera of Satteinj;. 

 I. Hind-wing witli the apex of the cell at, or close to, the origin of the middle median 

 veinlet, usually appearing as if the latter were a continuation of the lower discocellular 

 veinlet. 



A. Palpi clothed in front with short dense appressed hairs. 



1. Forewing with the costal vein only scarcely perceptihly swollen at the base ; the 

 eyes naked. 

 a. Hindwing short, rounded, without ocellated spots ...... EuPLCEAMDri. 



h. Hindwing rather elongate, rounded, with ocellated spots on upper and underside Axadebis. 



B. Palpi clothed in front with moderate or rather shoit porreet hairs. 



2. Forewing with the median and submedian vein usually much swollen at the base 

 in addition to the swollen costal vein, but variable. The eyes hairy, except in 

 Orsotrisena, where they are naked. [In the type of the genus Mycalesis 

 (il/. Evadne) — an African species — the eyes are also naked.] Males with one 

 or more scent-pouches, or androconial patches, on the iipperside of the wings. 



[Mycalesis, Auctorum.] 



]a. Males with an androconial patch and tuft of Tiairs ot^. u'^'^&v&i^Q oi ho\]x the 



fore and hindicings. 



A. Males with the androconial patch and tttft on hindwing near to the subcostal 



vein, and overlapped by the forewing ; the costal, median, and submedian 



veins of /orfWiBjr much swollen at the base. The eyes hairy. 



