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brown dots, and the latter with irregular fawn coloured patches on the 

 second, third and fourth segments. Underside of all the wings lighter 

 than above and with terminal brown dots. Legs dull ochre yellow and 

 more or less sprinkled with dark atoms. 



Described from one female in my collection, taken in Austin, Texas. 



DESCRIPTION OF A NEW SPECIES OF EREBIA, AND 



NOTES ON THE SO-CALLED CHIONOBAS BORE 



OF COLORADO. 



BY W. H. EDWARDS, COALBURGH, WEST VA. 



Erebia Ethela. 



Male. — Expands 1.5 inch. 



Upper side dark brown ; both wings . have a common extra-discal 

 band of red-fulvous elongated spots, on primaries six, filling the 

 interspaces from lower branch of subcostal to submedian, the second and 

 third from the top a little longer than the others, these last being equal ; 

 at the end of the cell a small fulvous patch. Secondaries have five spots, 

 the fifth being in second median interspace, the upper three equal, 

 sub-oval, the fourth about half the size of the third, and the fifth still 

 smaller ; fringes of both wings concolored. 



Under side of primaries dark brown along the margins to the 

 continuous fulvous band which replaces the spots of upper side ; the 

 cellular patch much diffused ; all the wing inside the band obscure 

 fulvous on dark brown ground. Secondaries dull black with a grayish 

 tint ; the spots repeated, but in yellow-buff, with scales of fulvous about 

 the edges ; inside the cell, and against subcostal nervure a small patch of 

 buff scales, less bright than the spots. 



Female. — Same size. 



Same colour and similarly marked ; underside as in the male. 



From two ^ , two ^, sent me by Professor Edward T. Owen, part of 

 fourteen examples taken by him in the Yellowstone Park, June, 1890. 

 This species is allied to Epipsodea, is smaller, and quite otherwise 

 ornamented with fulvous. The change from fulvous on upper side of 

 secondaries to buff is similar to what is sometimes seen in Erebia 

 Pyrrha of Europe. Esper's figure of E. Pharte, $ , pi. cxx., fig. 3, 

 represents a species of the same size as both sexes of EtJiela, and the 

 markings are similar in character, only that on upper side the fulvous 



