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as 13 '. chariclea Schneid. var. arctica Zett. It does not agree 

 exactly with artica, being more variegated and brighter colored 

 beneath, but it agrees still less with hclena, under which name it 

 was sent, as the band on hind wings below is too dentated and 

 variegated with white for that form. But as the synonymy of 

 char idea is already considerably involved it is better not to add 

 a new name to it. True chariclea seems not to occur in North 

 America, but we have several forms which should be referred as 

 varieties of it, as follows : 

 Brenthis chariclea Schneid. 

 kolcensis Renter. 



a. boisduvalii Dup. 



b. arctica Zett. 



obscurata McLach., butler ii Edw., tarquinius Curt. 



c. helena Edw. 



d. montinus Scudd. 



In connection with this subject, Dr. Dyar presented the fol 

 lowing synoptic tables : 



SYNOPSIS OF THE NORTH AMERICAN SPECIES OF 



EREBIA. 



BY HARRISON G. DYAR. 

 Wings without ocellated dots or transverse fulvous bands above. 



Entirely black on both sides. . / magdalena Streck. 



More or less red shading over disk of fore wings above. 

 A defined gray submarginal band on secondaries below. 



fascia fa Butl. 

 Secondaries below mottled and clouded with gray. 



discoidalis Kirby. 

 Wings with transverse fulvous bands above, usually marked 



with ocellated spots. 

 Hind wings below, dark and pale grayish. 



Fore wing with short fulvous band containing two ocelli 

 between veins 4 to 6. 



Hind wings below with gray submarginal band. 



r oss ii Curt. 



Hind wings below all pale gray suffused . . tyndarus Esp. 

 Fore wings with longer fulvous band containing ocelli below 

 vein 4. 



No ocellus in the interspace 3-4 or, if present, conspicu 

 ously smaller than those in the interspaces 4 to 6. 

 Hind wing below blackish with gray sub- 

 marginal band vidleri Elwes. 



Hind wing below with submarginal fulvous- 

 edged ocelli epipsodea Butl. 



