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305. CHIONOBAS TARPEIA Eps. 



Tarpeax Butterfly. 

 Brown above, yellow tinted. Wings all around margined with dark- 

 /er. xV ear apex of fore wing are three or four eye spots. Hind wing, 

 with four or five eye spots. Pale beneath, and the eye spots are repeated 

 but are white-pupiled. Expands l.Gi). Habitat, Europe and Arctic 

 America. 



30G. CHIONOBAS TAYGETE Hub. 

 Taygete Butterfly. 

 Dark brown above, ( female pale yellowish brown,) with darker 

 marginal bands. Outer border narrowly edged with black. Flecked 

 with hoary on apex of fore wings beneath, and on whole of hind wings, 

 excepting on edges of middle band, and on a darker sub-marginal band. 

 Sometimes there is an indistinct eye spot, but this is usually absent; 

 there are faint yellu wish-white spots on outer portion of hind wing. Be- 

 neath, paler than above, and there is sumetimes an indistinct white spot. 

 Hind wings much as in C. jutta, with veins distinctly flecked with white. 

 Expands 1.78 to 2.14. Labrador and Alaska. 



307. CHIONOBAS JUTTA Hub. 

 Barren Ground Butterfly. 

 Size, medium. Above, j'ellowish brown, with a sub-marginal row 

 of reddish yellow spots crossing both wings, the upper and lower of which 

 on fore wings, have dark centers, and there is a pupilless e3'e spot on 

 the inner angle of hind wings. Beneath, paler, with spots on fore wings 

 repeated, and the upper is white pupiled. Apex and u]>per margin, 

 marbled with black and white. The hind wings are marbled with black 

 and white, with a wide, darker central band, margined outwardly and 

 inwardly with white, and there is a sub-marginal row of white dots. Ex- 

 pands, 1.65 to 2.15. Habitat, British Columbia, Quebec, Hudson's 

 Bay, Labrador, and Orono, Maine. 



308. CHIONOBAS SEMIDEA Say. 

 White ^Mountain Butterfly. 

 Plate IX, 1. 

 Size, small. Above, blackish brown, yellowish along veins at base 

 of wings, mottled on outer portion of hind wings and along upper bor- 

 der of fore wings, with dusky. Beneath, paler, blackish mottled at apex 

 and along upper and outer border of f )re wing. Hind wing much mot- 

 tled Avith black on basal two thirds, less so on the outer third, and these 



