SATYRINJE. 47 



Subfamily SATYRIN^E. 



Eyg. " About as high as wide, a little more or a little less, rather 

 small, hard, typically translucent and smooth or with obscure 

 polygonal facets, sometimes subradiate, or even (Aulocera) with 

 distinct broadly scalloped anastomosing ribs somewhat as in 

 Hesperia. In some species it is covered with calcareous (?) 

 accretions, which do not appear till after some days' exposure to 

 the atmosphere." (Doherty.) 



Larva. Fusiform or sub fusiform, head bifid, often with a pair of 

 long straight processes or horns, anal segment also with a pair of 

 long posteriorly- directed processes ; colour generally green, pink, 

 or yellow ; body pubescent, the hairs springing from numerous 

 small papillae. 



Pupa. Elongate and somewhat fusiform or short and thick, 

 with the abdomen broadly rounded ; very few or generally no 

 tubercles or angles ; attached by the tail. 



Imago. Wings short and broad, rarely elongate, never narrow, 

 often with the terminal margins scalloped, sinuous, dentate or, in 

 the hind wing, caudate ; cells of both wings closed ; one or more 

 of the veins of the fore wing, in the majority of the forms, swollen 

 or inflated at base ; eyes very often hairy ; palpi as a rule com- 

 pressed, in some strongly compressed, generally with a fringe of 

 stiff porrect or subporrect hairs ; body slender. 



The Satyrince are shade-loving insects ; most of the forms have 

 comparatively a weak flight, and frequent the undergrowth, long 

 grass, or dense evergreen forests. Many are cryptically coloured 

 on the underside, and their method of suddenly dropping after 

 a short flight, and resting all askew, heightens their likeness 

 to dead or decaying leaves casually blown down. Secondary 

 sex characters and marks are very general throughout the 

 subfamily. 



Key to the Genera of the Satyriuse. 

 A. Eyes hairy. 



a. Veins 10 and 11 of fore wing free. 



a'. Vein 12 and median yein swollen at 



c 



a 2 . Club of antennae gradual. 



a 3 . Lower discocellular of fore wine 



strongly concave Mycalesis, p. 49. 



b 3 . Lower discocellular of fore wing 



oblique Pararge, p. 112. 



b 2 . Club of antennae spatulate Satyrus, p. 109. 



b' . Vein 12 only of fore wing swollen at 

 base. 

 a 2 .Hind wing generally augulate, very 

 often caudate ; upper- and under- 

 sides not similar Lethe, p. 72. 



