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SATYRWM. 
variegated beneath, being lighter, and the light bands less 
conspicuons. 
Habitat. — South Enssia, the Caucasus, and Altai. 
d. Virbius, H. S. 45-48 ; Frr. 463, 1, 2; Stgr. Hor. 1870, p. 75. 
— Smaller than the type. The fore wings with two ocelli ; hind 
wings beneath unicolorous. 
Habitat. — South Kussia. 
Genus 5. — PARARGE, Hub. verz. bek. Schmett. p. 59 (1816). 
Satyeus, Latr. Consid. Gen. p. 355 (1810) ; ? Sect. typ. 
Lasiommata, Westw. Brit. Butt. p. 65 (1840) ; Gen. 
H. L. p. 385 (1851). 
VicicoLES et Eamicoles, Hup. 
Chaeactees. — Laeva elongate, pubescent, with two anal projec- 
tions, generally green. Pupa short, thick, with two small angular 
projections and two cephalic points ; usually suspended by the 
anal extremity. Imago. — Head hairy, with a frontal tuft. Eyes 
prominent, hairy. Palpi with the front of the basal and second 
articulations thickly hairy, the terminal articulation short. 
Antennae moderately long, straight, and generally ringed with 
white, terminated by a distinct compressed pyriform club. Thorax 
hairy, of moderate size. Fore wings with the costal margin 
moderately arched, the apex rounded, hind margin entire ; costal 
and median nervures dilated at the base, the median less so than 
the costal ; discoidal cell reaching beyond the middle of the wing. 
Hind wings subovate, with the hind margins moderately dentate ; 
inner margin not incised near the anal angle. In colour the wings 
are brown, varying in the different species from pale dull brown to 
bright fulvous ; there is always at least one spot near the apex of 
the fore wings, generally ocellated ; the hind wings on their under 
side are lighter in colouring than the rest, and have a submarginal 
row of black spots surrounded by yellow rings. 
The butterflies of this genus are of moderate size ; some of the 
species frequent the neighbourhood of human habitations, such as 
gardens, lanes, road-side hedges, &c. (such as S. Metjoira) ; others, 
