Feb., '08] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. 75 



Var. brucei, Summit County, Colorado, 12,000 feet; Fort 

 Qu'appele, Assiniboia. 



8. sofia Strecker. 



Above both wings are dark brown, with an even submarginal band of 

 rusty-yellow spots on primaries and four or five concolorous spots on 

 secondaries; a tint of same color in cell of primaries. Beneath the pri- 

 maries are reddish, pale in cell, with band repeated, but paler. Second- 

 aries also paler, the spots yellowish white, with scales of fulvous about 

 the edges. Exp. 1.50 inches. 



Var. alaskensis Holland. 



The number of light spots reduced, both above and below; usually 

 three on primaries above and below, and two on inferior surface of sec- 

 ondaries. 



Habitat. Fort Churchill, Hudson Bay; Yellowstone Park, 

 7000 to 8000 feet; British Columbia; Wyoming; Colorado. 



Var. alaskensis, Eagle City, Forty Mile Mission, Alaska ; 

 Yellowstone Park. 



I take sofia to be a variety of the Siberian maurisiiis Esp., 

 and it is also close to E. kefersteinii Er. , another Siberian 

 species. 



9. magdalena Strecker. 



Uniformly and entirely dark blackish brown on both surfaces of the 

 wings, except the outer two-thirds, beneath which is a shade lighter. 

 Exp. 2 inches. 



Habitat. Colorado, 10,000 to 14,000 feet. 



10. yonngi Holl. 



Above both wings are dark brownish black; on primaries a wide sub- 

 marginal band of red spots, pupiled with black. On secondaries a con- 

 colorous series of rounded spots, not confluent as on primaries. Beneath 

 paler; the spots of primaries more confluent, but less sharply outlined. 

 Secondaries crossed by a broad-curved, median, dark band, defined on 

 both sides by narrow black lines. External to this a paler band, more 

 or less dusted with grayish scales. Succeeding this a moderately wide, 

 dark-brown, even marginal band; pupils of above repeated. 



Less dark upon upper surface of wings, the ocellated red spots more 

 strongly developed. Exp. 1.50 inches. 



Habitat. Forty Mile Mission, Alaska. 



DR. WM. A. NASON has sold his collection of insects to the State Lab- 

 oratory of Natural History, University of Illinois, Urbana, 111. 



