EREBIA I. 



EREBIA MAGDALENA, 1-4. 



Erebia Magdalena (Mag-da-le'na), Strecker, Bulletin of the Brooklyn Ent. Soc, III. p. 35. 1880. 



Male. — Expands about two inches. 



Upper side blackisli-brown. glossy, with a tint of purple. Under side nearly as 

 dark, paler along inner margin of primaries. 



Body, color of wings ; legs brown ; palpi black-brown ; antennae black above, 

 annulated with gray-white, under side gray-white ; club ferruginous above, black 

 beneath. (Figs. 1, 2.) 



Female. — Same size. 

 Paler colored. (Figs. 3, 4.) 



Egg. — Ovoidal, the base and top almost equally rounded ; marked by about 

 forty somewhat sinuous ridges from end to end ; these are highest in the mid- 

 dle, and decrease gradually either way ; a cross section at the middle would 

 show the elevations and depressions to be about equal, the tops a little rounded, 

 the sides sloping, and at the bottom a very narrow flat space ; the micropyle in 

 a depression, in centre of a rosette of half a dozen concentric rings of small in- 

 dented cells ; color yellow-brown. (Figs, a, «-.) Duration of this stage, about 

 twelve days. 



Young Larva. — Length .1 inch, shape of E. Fjjijisodea ; thickest anteriorly, 

 tapering on back and sides to 13, which ends roundly ; marked by three longi- 

 tudinal rows of dark sub-conical tubercles, each of which gives out a white pro- 

 cess ; these rows are dorsal, sub-dorsal, and lateral ; on 2 there is an additional 

 tubercle back of and between the dorsal and sub-dorsal, and another a little be- 

 low and behind the latter ; and there are two in front and a little above spiracle ; 

 on 3 and 4 the three are nearly in vertical line, but after 4 to 12 inclusive they 

 are in triangle, the dorsal on front, the sub-dorsal at rear, and the lateral a little 



