. The butterfly book [microform] : a popular guide to a knowledge of the butterflies of North America. Butterflies; Papillons. Oenut Satyrus Genus SATYRUS, Westwood (The Wood-nymphs) " Ruttering, like some vain, painted butterfly, From glade to glade along the forest ; Arnold, Light of Asia, Butterfly.—Butterflies of medium size, their wing--, -narked with eye-liice spots, or ocelli. Upon the upper surface they are generally obscurely colored of some shade of gray or brr •• occasionally marked with bands of yellow. .>n the under side the wings are generally beautifully striat
. The butterfly book [microform] : a popular guide to a knowledge of the butterflies of North America. Butterflies; Papillons. Oenut Satyrus Genus SATYRUS, Westwood (The Wood-nymphs) " Ruttering, like some vain, painted butterfly, From glade to glade along the forest ; Arnold, Light of Asia, Butterfly.—Butterflies of medium size, their wing--, -narked with eye-liice spots, or ocelli. Upon the upper surface they are generally obscurely colored of some shade of gray or brr •• occasionally marked with bands of yellow. .>n the under side the wings are generally beautifully striated and spotted, with the eye-like spots more prominent. The costal vein at the base is greatly swollen; the median and submedian veins less so. The first and second subcostal nervules arise very near the end of the cell, slightly be- fore it. The outer margin of the fore wing is evenly rounded; the outer margin of the hind wing somewhat scalloped; the head small, the eyes of moderate size, full, naked; the antennae gradually thickening to a broadly rounded club, which is slightly depressed; the palpi slender, compressed, profusely clothed beneath with long hairs. The fore legs are very small. Egg-Short, barrel-shaped, greatly diminishing in size on the upper half; truncated at the summit; the sides furnished with a large number of vertical ribs, not very high, with numer- ous delicate cross-lines between them. At the summit the ribs are connected by a waved, raised elevation. Caterpillar. —Head globular; body cylindrical, tapering from the middle forward and backward; provided with short and slender diverging anal horns. Chrysalis.—Shaped very much as in the genus Debt's, from which it is hardly distinguishable. Generally green in color. This genus includes numerous species are more or less subject to varietal modifications. In the following pages I have treated as species a number of forms which by some writers are reckoned as mere varieties. Whether the view
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