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Habitat. Alaska ; Rocky Mountains ; British America ; 

 L/acombe, Alberta, Canada. 



5. vidleri Elwes. 



Wings above blackish brown; on primaries a yellow-brown band en- 

 closing three small, dark-brown ocelli, the upper two pupiled with white. 

 On secondaries a band extending about half-way across the wing, con- 

 taining two brown spots, the upper small. 



Habitat. Seton Lake, near L/illoet, on the Fraser River, 

 British Columbia. 



6. tyndarus, var. callais Edw. 



$ Wings above brownish, with a broad, transverse, castaneous band 

 on outer two-thirds of primaries, more or less distinct. At apical end is 

 contained a black, duplex, bipupiled spot. Secondaries with a series of 

 three small, black points, each in a castaneous ring; fringes brown. 

 Primaries beneath castaneous except costal edge and apex, which are 

 gray; markings as above. Secondaries grayish, with brownish scales; 

 disk crossed by a deeply crenated line, anterior to which, near base, is 

 another line nearly obsolete; spots as above. Body brown above, below 

 dark gray; antennae brown, luteous below: club fuscous above, yellow 

 at tip. 



9 Paler, the spots on secondaries sometimes more or less wanting. 

 Exp. 1.50 inches. 



Habitat. Colorado; New Mexico. 



7. epipsodea Butl. 



$ Upper surface of wings dark brown ; generally three black, ocel- 

 lated spots on primaries, broadly surrounded with reddish brown, wid- 

 ening anteriorly and narrowing in the submedian interspaces. A similar 

 series on secondaries, three or four in number, surrounded with reddish 

 brown. Primaries beneath as above, third ocellus obsolete or repre- 

 sented by a point. Secondaries beneath with outer margin paler and 

 a curved median, blackish band; spots repeated, but reduced. Body 

 and palpi brownish black; antennae and club brown above, buff below, 

 fulvous at tip. Exp. 1.50 inches. 



9 Of same size; ocelli enlarged. 



Var. bnicei Elwes. 



The fulvous patch on primaries divided into four parts by the subcostal 

 and discoidal nervures. Above third median nervure a small, fulvous 

 patch which contains two black dots, the white pupils obsolete. Beneath 

 as above. I regard this as a local aberration. 



Habitat. New Mexico to Alaska at suitable elevations ; 

 common in Montana, Eastern Washington, and British Co- 

 lumbia. 



