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NYMPHALID^. 
Genus SATYRUS. 
Satyrus, Westwood^ Geo. Diurn. Lep. p. 388 (1851). 
" Body generally rather robust, hairy ; wings large, considerably variegated, with the costal and 
median veins of the fore wings swollen at the base, and the apical margin somewhat 
scalloped. 
' ' Head rather small, thickly clothed with rather short hairs. 
" Eyes prominent, naked. 
" Labial palin rather short, porrected obliquely, but not reaching much above the middle of 
the eyes, and extending forwards about half the length of the head, rather thickly clothed 
beneath with moderately short hairs ; the middle joint with a compressed conical tuft of 
hairs in the middle of the hinder margin ; terminal joint very short and oval. 
" Antenna' not near half the length of the fore wings, very slender, articulations indistinct, not 
annulated with white ; terminated either by a short, abrupt, broad, concave club, or by a 
long, slender, fusiform club, with its base gradually formed. 
" Thokax oval, clothed, especially behind, with long soft hairs ; wings large. 
" Fore wings with the costal and median veins greatly swollen at the base. Costal margin well 
arched, apical angle rounded, apical margin more than two thirds the length of the costal. 
Inner margin not, or scarcely, so long as the apical one, nearly straight. Veins arranged 
as in Lasiommata ; the third and fourth branches of the postcostal vein being, however, 
more approximate to each other, leaving a greater space between the extremity of the 
discoidal cell and the third, and between the fourth and the tip of the wing. The upper 
discocellnlar vein is extremely short and transverse, and the middle and lower ones nearly 
continuous and oblique ; the latter united with the third branch of the median vein at 
about the same distance from its origin as exists between the first and second branches. 
The discoidal cell extends to the middle of the wing. 
^"■Bindwings broadly ovate, more or less scalloped along the outer margin. The anal margin either 
entire, or slightly incised near its extremity. Veins arranged as in Lasiommata, except 
that the uj)per discocellnlar vein is longer, and the lower discocellnlar is united to the third 
branch of the median vein at a rather shorter distance from its origin than exists between 
the first and second branches of the median vein. 
" Fore legs of comparatively moderate length, and distinctly visible in botli sexes ; those of the 
males being much more densely clothed with hair, and those of the female rather larger. 
Tarsus simple in the males, but articulated in the females ; not armed, however, with 
minute spines at the tips of 1 he joints. 
" Four hind legs rather short, scaly. Femora almost entirely destitute of liairs beneath. Tibiaj 
armed with several rows of spines, set rather widely apart, at the sides beneatli ; tibial 
si)urs very acute;, and rather long. Tarsi armed beneath and at the sides with several rows 
of short spines ; tips of the joints with longer spines. Ungues entire, long, very acute, and 
curved. Paronychia very slender. 
" A iinoMEN moderately elongate-ovate." (Wesiwood, I. c.) 
