EREBIA JUNTO AND GAVARNIENSIS. 109 



the continental interruptus to be similar to that of the New Forest 

 specimens, and the single interniptns $ in the Saunders collection in 

 the British Museum (ex coll. Smith, from Schenck), has a similar 

 pedicel. The short joints of the funiculus are also characteristic. 



Joints 2-5 of funiculus longer than broad (not so long as in tuherum, (s.sfv.)). 

 Mandibles quadiidentate. Head, mesonotuin, and pedicel finely rugose. Gaster 

 smooth and shining. Pedicel as in tuberuvi, (s./^tr.). Epinotum without tooth-like 

 tubercles. 



Brown-black; mandibles, antennse, and legs paler. 



L. 2-5mm.-3-5mm. . . . Sub-sp. unifasciatits, Latr. 



From a single 3 from Bondroit, measuring 3-Omm. The other 

 measurements are from Forel--. Schenck*', speaking of the pedicel, 

 says, " Der stiel ist lang, die knoten diinn, besonders der erste, sehr 

 verliingerte und fast walzenformig." This applies equally well to 

 tiibeniin, (s.str.). 



Erebia inanto and E. gavarniensis. {Wit/i a plate.) 



By B. C. S. WARREN, F.E.S. 



Owing to my absence from home for four months I have been 

 unable to reply sooner to Dr. Chapman's criticism, in the February 

 number of the Magazine, of my article on the above-mentioned species 

 {Ent. Bee, vol. xxv., p. 278). 



Dr. Chapman contends that f/avaiiiienfii^ is onljr a geographical race 

 of Dianto. There does not seem to me to be sufficient ground for this 

 contention, so far as the present evidence is concerned. 



Dr. Chapman now finds that there is nothing in the genitalia to 

 distinguish the two insects, but that in both there is considerable 

 variation on similar lines. This, by itself, could not be taken as 

 conclusive proof, and especially not in this case, where, as Dr. Chapman 

 tells us, the male appendages in ligea and enryale (species admittedly 

 distinct from vianto) show no further differences either. 



With the various points of difference Avhich I gave in the neuration 

 of the two species. Dr. Chapman does not agree, so it Avill be necessary 

 to consider these again. In the plate which Dr. Chapman used to 

 illustrate the neuration, the specimens of iiianto are, in two cases, 

 exactly the same size as those of i/avarniensis, and the others only very 

 slightly smaller. This is most unusual, as manto does not vary very 

 greatly in size, such specimens being quite abnormal. I, therefore, 

 give another plate made from specimens of average size. This average 

 being taken not merely from the specimens in my own collection, but 

 also from the large amount of material in the collection of the late 

 Mr. Fison, of Charpigny. 



A careful examinatton of a great number of specimens has shown that 

 in its neuration mantn varies much more than I thought it did, or, indeed, 

 thought it possibl}' could. In one case I found nervure five missing 

 on both hindwings (see PL XIII. , figs. 16 and 17). The points mentioned 

 below do not always occur, but as they were present in about five-sixths 

 of the specimens examined, one ca,n but take them as typical of the 



*2 loe. cit., p. 89. 



23 Beschr. Naasaii. Am., 1852, p. 103. 



