Satyrinae (the Satyrs) 



ical, somewhat higher than broad, generany ribbed along the 

 sides, particularly near the apex, and rounded at the base, which 

 is generally broader than the apex. 



The caterpillars at the time of emergence from the egg have 

 the head considerably larger than the remainder of the body; but 

 when they have reached maturity they are cylindrical, tapering a 

 little from the middle to either end. They are bifurcated at the 

 anal extremity, a character which enables them to be distin- 

 guished at a glance from the larvae of all other American butter- 

 flies except those of the genus Cblorippe. They are mostly pale 

 green or light brown in color, ornamented with stripes along 

 the sides. They feed upon grasses and sedges, lying in con- 

 cealment during the daytime, and emerging at dusk to take their 

 nourishment. 



The chrysalids are rather stout in form, but little angulated, 

 and without any marked prominences or projections. They are 

 green or brown in color. Most of them are pendant, but a few 

 forms pupate at the roots of grasses or under stones lying upon 

 the ground. 



The butterflies of this subfamily have been arranged, so far 

 as they are represented in the faunal region of which this book 

 treats, in nine genera, which include about sixty species. It is 

 quite possible that a number of species still remain to be discov- 

 ered and described, though it is also true that some of the so- 

 called species are likely to prove in the end little more than local 

 races or varieties. 



Genus DEBIS, Westwood 

 (The Eyed Nymphs) 



" The wild bee and the butterfly 



Are bright and happy things to see, 

 Living beneath a summer sky." 



Eliza Cook. 



Butterfly. — Characterized by the stout but not greatly swollen 

 costal vein of the fore wing, by the rather short costal vein of the 

 hind wing, which terminates before quite reaching the outer 

 angle, by the great length of the lower discocellular vein of the 

 fore wing, and by the prolongation of the outer margin of the 

 hind wing at the end of the third median nervule. The outer 



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