80 NYMPHALID^. 
centres. Hind wings with five spots, 3^ellow-ringed and -white-centred; marginal fringes 
whitish." {Lang, I. c.) 
There are two examples of this species from Posiette Bay, N.E. Corea, in 
the National Museum, South Kensington. One of these is a very large 
specimen of the typical form, but the other has enormous oceUi on all the 
wings. The last named is the type of Mr. Butler's Satyrus ocellatus, which 
I consider to be only an aberrant form of hyperanthus, and of which I append 
the original description : — 
Var. ocellatus. " Female nearly allied to -S'. hyjieranthus, but with all the ocelli of about three 
times the size ; those on the under surface with confluent irides and oval in form. Expanse 
of wings 2 inches." {Butler, 1. c.) 
A common species throughout Central and Northern Europe, Asia Minor, 
and the Altai. 
Mr. Elwes (P. Z. S. 1881, p. 907) says that E. hyperanthus is " common in 
Amurland, where the type is larger, with larger spots than in Em-ope." I 
have three specimens from the Amiu- in my collection of var. arete. Mill., the 
ocelli being represented on the under surface by white dots. M. Oberthiir 
(Etud. d'Eut. V. p. 17) observes that specimens from the Isle of Askold agree 
with those from France. 
This species has been recorded from Japan, but I believe erroneously. 
' Dr. Lang (/. c.) describes the larva as reddish or greenish grey, with a 
darker dorsal line and two yellowish lines on the sides ; it feeds on grasses {Poa 
annua) in May and June. The early stages of this species are described and 
figured by the late Mr. Buckler in ' Larvae of British Butterflies,' p. 170, pi. v. 
Genus PAL^ONYMPHA. 
Palteonympha, Butler, Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. 1871, p. 401. 
"Affiuissimum EupUjcUoi (sect. Neowjmpha), differt alls dense pilosis ; anticis striga lata, opaca, mas- 
culina, obliqua ; angulo autico cellula; discoidalis baud porreeto ; palpis articulo ultimo longiore. 
" Nearly allied to Euptychia, which it much resembles in markings, but 
with the oblique male streak (not present in any known Euptychia, but 
represented in E. vesta by a scalloped embossed line) ; the anterior angle 
of the discoidal cell obliquely cut off, and therefore not projecting as in 
Eupty cilia ; the palpi with the last joint longer, the wings clothed above with 
long hairs ; it differs from Paramecera (Mexico), with which it agrees in the 
