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36 THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGlSt. 



SOME LITTLE KNOWN SPECIES OF CENEIS. 



BY H. J. ELWES, CDLESBORNE, CHELTENHAM, ENG. 



On page 224 of Canadian Entomologist, Volume XXVI., Mr. Her- 

 man Strecker has some remarks on Chionobas, in which, I am glad to say, 

 he supports my views, except in two points. First, with regard to the 

 subhyalhia of Curtis, I cannot conceive on what grounds he supposes 

 that the description of suhJiyalina refers to Erebia fasciata, and as W. 

 H. Edwards's suggestion that the example from Guenee's collection sent to 

 me by Oberthur as the type of subhyalina is not really so, rests on no 

 evidence whatever ; I still maintain that subhyalina is the proper 

 name for the insect hitherto called crambis^ Freyer, found, as far as we 

 know at present, from Newfoundland along the Labrador coast to Hud- 

 son's Straits and'other parts of Eastern Arctic America. It has no re- 

 semblance to Beanii, Elwes, first sent out under the name of subhyalina, 

 by Mr. Bean, and only taken near Laggan. With regard to alberta, Mr. 

 Strecker had probably written his notes before seeing W. H. Edwards's 

 further remarks on this species, on page 192 of the same volume. If he 

 had seen the true alberta, I do not think he could have supposed that it 

 is a variety or form of chryxus. The one species is found in May only, 

 on the prairie; the other always in the mountains, in pine forest, or above 

 timber line, and does not appear, as far as I know, before about the 20th 

 June. One has a well-marked sexual patch on the forewing in the male, 

 the other has no trace of it. The smallest specimens oi chryxus are con- 

 siderably larger than the largest of alberta. The colour is also totally 

 different on both surfaces, so I can only suppose that Mr. Strecker has 

 never seen alberta. I have now received more specimens, mcluding sev- 

 eral females, from Mr. Wolley-Dod, and though the variation in colour and 

 number of ocelli is even greater than W. H. Edwards points out, there is 

 not the slightest difficulty in separating any single specimen from any 

 sjiecimen of my large series qI chryxus and varuna. With regard to the 



latter, a number of specimens sent by Mr. Wolley-Dod, also taken 

 near Calgary, confirm my opinion that it cannot be separated from Uhleri, 

 even as a local variety, for though the majority of the specimens have 

 larger and more abundant ocelli tlian Uhleri, from Colorado, there are 

 several which I could not distinguish without the labels. As a rule, how- 

 ever, the band on the under side of the hind wing is better marked in the 

 northern than in Yellowstone or Colorado specimens. 



With regard to the single female from Mount Graham, for which Mr. 

 Strecker suggests the name of Laura, I can form no opinion whatever. 



