110 



NYMPHALIDiE. 



apex of cell. Hind wing oval, termen slightly scalloped ; cell less 

 than half length of wing ; discocellulars sinuous ; veins 3 and 4 

 from or after apex of cell, vein 6 equally distant from 5 and 7. 

 Club of antennae spatulate, with two carinas on the underside. 

 Eyes hairy ; palpi compressed, fringed with long porrect hairs to 

 apex, third joint moderately long ; intermediate femora fringed 

 with hair beneath. Male sex-mark, when present, consists of a more 

 or less conspicuous oblique band of raised, densely packed, specialized 

 scales on the upperside of the fore wing. 



Key to the forms o/ Satyrus. 



a. S with secondary sex-mark on fore wing. 



a'. Fore wing with a broad postdiscal patch of 

 ochraceous orange on upperside 



b'. Fore wing with a postdiscal series of more or 

 less rectangular ochraceous orange spots on 



b. <$ without secondary sex-mark on fore wing .... 



Ill, 



S. schakra, p. 110. 

 S. mcerula, p. 111. 



129. Satyrus schakra, Kollar, RugeVs Kasckmir, iv, 2, 1844, p. 446, 

 pi. 15, figs. 3, 4, S ; Butler (Amecera), A. M. N. H. (3) xix, 1867, 

 p. 163 ; M. $ de N. (Amecera), Butt. hid. \, 1883, p. 179, pi. 15, 

 figs. 45, 46, S $ ; Moore (Lasiommata), Lep. Ind. i\, 1893-96, 

 p. 7, pi. 96, figs. l,la,(J$. 



S 2 • Sexes differing slightly. S . Upperside silky, pale 

 vandyke-brown ; cilia of both wings whitish. Fore wing with a 

 transverse row of four large orange spots, the apical one the largest, 

 bearing a black, white-pupilled ocellus ; 

 beyond the row of orange spots a sub- 

 terminal dark brown line. Hind wing 

 uniform, but bearing a postdiscal row 

 of from three to six black, white-pupilled, 

 orange-ringed ocelli. Underside very pale 

 greyish white ; fore wing : disc orange, 

 outwardly defined by a dark line, two 

 lines across the discoidal cell, and a sinuous 

 discal oblique line beyond its apex not 

 extending to the tornus, orange-brown ; 

 subterminal and terminal dark lines ; a 

 subapical ocellus, as on the upperside, but 

 with the outer ring paler, and a much 

 smaller ocellus beyond it towards apex of 

 wing. Hind wing : the basal half crossed by two sinuous curved 

 slender lines, a shorter line crossing the cell only, and another short 

 line defining the discocellular nervules, orange-brown ; the curved 

 row of ocelli as on the upperside, but each ocellus with rings of pale 

 ochraceous and of brown, alternately two of each ; lastly, a sub- 

 terminal and a terminal brown line. Antennae brown ; head and 

 thorax studded with long dark grey pubescence ; abdomen pale 

 brown. Sex-mark present. 



$ . Similar. Upperside, the orange spot bearing the ocellus on 



Fig. 28. — Satyrus schakra. 

 Underside. 



