AG-APETES. — SATYRUS. 



109 



band above apex of cell, a large spot at apex of wing, a broad 



postdiscal band from apex 

 of vein 1 to apex of vein 5, 

 and subterininal and ter- 

 minal lines black ; a zigzag 

 line joins the black apical 

 spot to the obliquely -placed 

 postdiscal band. Underside 

 somewhat similar. Fore 

 wing : the apex creamy 

 white, bordered internally 

 by a broad dusky black 

 oblique band ; termen with 

 pre-subterminal, subter- 

 minal, and terminal black 

 lines. Hind wing creamy white, the black marks as on upperside, 

 but diffuse and dusky, the postdiscal oblique band with three or 

 four, the preapical spot with two lilac-centred, ochraceous-ringed, 

 dusky black ocelli, beyond a pre-subterminal series of white lunules 

 denned inwardly by a black line, and subterminal and terminal 

 black lines as on the upperside. Antennae, head, thorax and 

 abdomen dusky black ; abdomen whitish beneath. 

 Exp. S 2 64-71 mm. (2-5-2-85"). 



Hah. Recorded from Western China and Amurland. Occurs 

 in Eastern Tibet, and within our limits a few specimens were 

 procured by Mr. W. H. Craddock, of the Burma Forest Depart- 

 ment, on the extreme eastern frontier of Upper Burma. 



Fig. 27. — Agapetes halimede, <$ . 



Genus SATYRUS*. 



Satyrus, Latr. Consid. Gen. 1810, pp. 355 & 440. 



Lasiommata, Westioood, Brit. Butt. 1840, p. 65 ; Moore, Lep. Ind. ii, 



1893-96, p. 5. 

 Amecera, Butler, A. M. N. H. (3) xix, 1867, p. 162 ; M. fy de N. 



Butt. Ind. i, 1882, p. 178 ; Moore (nee Butler), Lep. Ind. ii, 



1893-96, p. 12. 



Type, 8. mcera, Linn., from Europe. 8. megcera and 8. mcera 

 are "les satyrs"' of old French authors; these fix the type for 

 the genus. 



Range. Palsearctic Eegion. Within our limits the Himalayas 

 at high elevations. 



S $ . Fore wing subtriangular, costa strongly arched towards 

 apex ; apex broadly rounded ; termen straight or slightly convex, 

 tornus rounded, dorsum straight ; median vein and vein 12 inflated 

 at base; cell less than half length of wing; upper discocellular short 

 but distinct, middle inclined obliquely inwards, lower twice length 

 of middle, inclined obliquely outwards : vein 10 from just before 



* According to the strict rules of priority this name is preoccupied by 

 Satyra, Meigen (1803), for a genus of Biptera ; but the latter name is not, I 

 believe, now in use, so I have retained Satyrus as it is well-known. 



