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On this interesting subject Mr. G. E. Sampson, in his cc Notes and List of the 
Butterflies of the Nilgiris ” (Journ. Asiat. Soc. Bengal, 1888, 347) states that cc most 
of the species have four broods, two in the dry season and two in the wet season; 
but some species have only the two wet-season broods. Seasonal dimorphism is 
rather difficult to study on the Nilgiris, owing to the fact that the Western and North¬ 
western Slopes get heavy rains during the South-west monsoon and hardly any during 
the North-east; while the Eastern and South-eastern Slopes have their wet season 
during the North-east monsoon and get little of the South-west; and, consequently, 
the wet and dry-season broods are some three months later in appearing on the 
Southern and Eastern Slopes than on the Western and Northern, and the two forms 
get much mingled in the intermediate districts, which partially get both monsoons.” 
Geographical Distribution.—“ This subfamily is more widely spread over the 
globe than any other similar group of butterflies, being universally present wherever 
butterflies occur. Its members extend to the polar colds and alpine summits, and 
embrace several genera peculiar to such regions. Yet, wherever they occur, the 
Satyrinse can be recognized by their peculiar facies, and have nowhere lost their 
characteristic flight and habits.” (Scudder, 1. c. p. 121.) Of the genera occurring 
within our limits “ some few are purely Indian; others are Asiatic and Malayan ; 
and again, others belong only to the Palsearctic region, and occur within our limits 
only in the mountains on the North and Wesfc.” (de Niceville, Butt. Ind. i. 97.) 
Key to the Indian Genera of Satyrinye. 
I. Hind wing with the apex of the cell at., or close to, the origin of the middle median 
veinlet, usually appearing as if the latter were a continuation of the lower discocellular 
veinlet. 
A. Palpi clothed in front with short dense oppressed hairs. 
1. Porewing with the costal vein only scarcely perceptibly swollen at the base ; the 
eyes naked. 
a . Hind wing short, rounded, without oeellated spots ...... Euplceamima. 
b. Hindwing rather elongate, rounded, with oeellated spots on upper and underside Anadebis. 
JB. Palpi clothed in front with moderate or rather short porrect hairs. 
2. Porewing with the median and submedian vein usually much swollen at the base 
in addition to the swollen costal vein, but variable. The eyes hairy , except in 
Orsotrisena, where they are naked. [In the type of the genus Afycalesis 
(M. Evadne) —an African species—the eyes are also naked.] Males with one 
or more scent-pouches, or androconial patches, on the upperside of the wings. 
[. Mycalesis , Auctorum.] 
1a. Males with an androconial patch and tuft of hairs on upperside of both, the 
fore and hindwings . 
a. Males with the androconial patch and tuft on hind wing near to the subcostal 
vein, and overlapped by the forewing; the costal, median, and submedian 
veins of forewing much swollen at the base. The eyes hairy , 
