SATYRIXM. 
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Hesperia. In some species it is covered with calcareous (?) accretions which, do not 
appear till after some days’ exposure to the atmosphere. 53 
Caterpillar at Birth. —“ Abdomen tapering very slightly and regularly from in 
front backward, the last segment often showing little or no sign of its subsequent 
bifurcation; body furnished above, on either side, either with two rows, or with a 
double row of clubbed appendages, one placed anteriorly and one posteriorly on each 
segment; the sides with another row, formed of a single appendage, placed 
centrally above the spiracles of each segment, and, beneath another double row, its 
members not quite in a line—all seated on papillse.” 
Adult Caterpillar. — cc Head well rounded, smaller than the largest part of the 
abdomen, although not always of a less size than the first thoracic segment, with 
no protuberances, excepting on the summit, which sometimes bears on either side a 
long, straight, conical horn. Body nearly or quite cylindrical, largest at or in 
advance of the middle, tapering more or less toward each end, the terminal segment 
longitudinally forked, each fork extending backward as a conical projection, often of 
considerable length. Surface of the body profusely studded with papillae, each 
giving rise to a very short hair; ornamented with longitudinal coloured bands, 
some of which are frequently composed of oblique dashes, one to a segment; 
the segments are cut by transverse incisions, usually into six sections, the front 
one the largest, the last incision frequently obscure ; legs and prolegs short 
but not very stout. 
Chrysalis. — cc Head scarcely at all or but little produced in front; the anterior 
curve of the thorax very high; ocellar prominences often not at all pronounced; 
abdomen broadly rounded, not deeply separated from the thorax, the lower surface of 
the body nearly straight, slightly and broadly curved; the whole body well rounded, 
with a few or no tubercles excepting the slight projections at base of the wings ; 
edges of the wings very slightly raised above the level of the body and not at all 
thickened at the border, but generally carinate from the wing tubercle backward.” 
(Scudder, 1. c. p. 115.) 
General Characteristics and Halits. — Cc Among the Nymplialidae, the butterflies 
of this subfamily present a very distinctive appearance. Their sombre hues, almost 
always inclining to dark brown; their markings, mostly confined to round ocellated 
spots upon the underside and to some extent upon the upperside, near and parallel 
to the outer margin—oftenest occurring in the lower subcostal and lower median 
interspaces ; together with the delicate texture of the membrane of the wings, the 
suppleness of the Amins, which are usually inflated at the base (a character, however, 
not found in some genera and shared by some genera in neighbouring subfamilies) ; 
and the excessive atrophy of the forelegs in the males—all combine to separate these 
insects from those of any other large group. There is no doubt that in many cases 
