70 WM. H. EDWARDS. 



Erebia Meatlii, n. sp. 



Male. — Expands 1.5 to 1.7 inch. Upper side light brown ; prima- 

 ries have a large, sub-triangular, fulvous patch on disk, within which 

 are two large black ocelli, each with minute white pupil ; secondaries 

 have a single small black ocellus in ferruginous ring and with white 

 pupil, the latter sometimes wanting. Under side brown covered with 

 blackish streaks, mostly abbreviated ; both wings edged by two paral- 

 lel dark lines, the inner one of which is diffuse on secondaries, and at 

 a little distance anterior is a third line, wavy and diffuse; the fulvous 

 space on primaries deeper colored and occupying a larger portion of the 

 wing than on upper side, reaching nearly to base ; the ocelli as above 

 but each surrounded by an ochraceous ring ; on secondaries are two 

 small ocelli with white pupils, one being in lower median interspace 

 and the other in sub-median ; across the disk a wavy dark band and 

 another nearly parallel towards base. 



Body fuscous, legs and palpi same ; antennas annulated fuscous and 

 whitish above, whitish below; club fulvous. 



Female. — Expands 1.8 inch. Color paler, the fulvous less intense, 

 similarly marked ; sometimes a black dot mid -way between the two 

 ocelli and a small black spot below and near the lower one. 



Found by Mr. Mead, at Bailey's Kanch, in the South Park, Colo- 

 rado, about 45 miles from Denver, during the last week of August 

 1871. Although not found at a few miles on either side of this point 

 it did not seem to be uncommon there. Altogether 49 specimens were 

 taken, a few of them perfect, but the greater part old and worn. They 

 should be looked for about 1st of August. 



