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outer margin; a submar^inal row of reddish spots the two nearest the 

 apex more distinctly pu[)illed. Beneath primaries as above: secondaries 

 brown densely powdered with silvery white scales giving a grayish cast: 

 there is a broati mecUan bunf of sooty black, deeply indented towards 

 base, regularly sinuate outwardly; at the costal margin and on the outer 

 edge of this band is a triangular patch of white; also a white spot on 

 second submedian nervule; a submarginal row of faint blackish lunules 

 is also present. 



Rocky Mts , Alaska. 



6. Rossii Curt. App. Ross' 2d Voyage, p. 67, pi. A, f. 7. 



Wings uniform dark reddish brown above and below, somewhat 

 paler below. On the primaries towards apex are two ocellated spots close 

 together which are repeated below. 



Expands 2 inches. Arctic Am. 



7. Discoidalis Kirb. Fauna Bor. Am. IV, p. 29S, pi. 3, f. 2, 3. 



Body brown. Wings brown: costa spotted with gray; a triangular 

 obscure tawny reddish discoidal stripe from base to posterior margin on 

 primaries. This spot is also on the underside of the primaries, and the 

 wing is tipped with gray. Secondaries beneath distinctly marbled and 

 clouded with gray and whitish. 



Expands 1.5 inches. Arctic Am. 



8. Fasciata Butl. Cat. S. B.M., p. 92, pi. 2, f. 8. 



Wings above much as in distoidalis. Below the primaries are paler 

 with three darker fasciae: one basal indistinct; the second broadly median, 

 broadest at costa: the third marginal. Secondaries beneath whitish cin- 

 ereous with three darker fascia;: the first basal, confused; the second 

 median, undulating; the third marginal. 



Expands 2 — 2. 5 inches. Arctic Am. 



9. Sofia Streck. Bull. Brookl. Ent. Soc. 3, 35. 



Upper surface dark brown. Primaries crossed with a submarginal 

 rusty yellow band, the same color evident in the discoidal cell. Second- 

 aries with a submarginal row of four rust colored spots. Beneath prim- 

 aries with band repeated but paler. Secondaries also lighter, the spots 

 white. 



Expands 1.5 inches. Ft. Churchill, Brit. Am. 



VESAGUS Doub. Hew. Gen. Diur. Lep. 380, pi. 64, f. 3, 

 has been catalogued as a N.A. species oi Erebia and thus stands in Mr. 

 W. H. Edwards' latest catalogue, 1885. But it undoubtedly does not 

 belong to our fauna. In Doub. Hew,, where it is figured and named 

 without description, to the name is added, "Rocky Mountains'', with an 

 interrogation mark; showing the locality was uncertain. Kirby catalogues 

 it p. 64, 1. 36 with the .?. Dr. Morris in his catalogue, p. 10. leaves 



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