EREBIA III. 



EREBIA EPIPSODEA, 1-7. 



Erebia Epipsodea, Butler, CataIo;;ue of SatyridiE of British Museum, p. SO, pi. 2, fig. 9. 1808 ; Mead, Re- 

 port Wheeler Expedition, Vol. V, p. 776. 1871. 

 IVimlia, Edwards, Trans. Am. Ent. Soc, Vol. Ill, p. 273. 1871. 

 Var. Brucei, Elwes, Trans. Ent. Soc, London, 1889, Part II, p. 326. 



Male. — Expands 1.6 to 1.9 inch. 



Upper side dark velvety-brown ; primaries have a submarginal patch of bright 

 red-fulvous, broad on the lower subcostal and discoidal, narrow on the median, 

 interspace.^, containing from two to four black ocelli, one being in each of the dis- 

 coidal interspaces, one in the second median, and if there be a fourth, it is in the 

 upper median ; the third and fourth, one or both, are usually mere dots ; some- 

 times the larger of these ocelli are pupilled with white, but often all are blind. 



Secondaries have a submarginal row of fulvous patches, four or less, some- 

 times immaculate, at others with a central black dot in one or more of them; 

 but sometimes with pupilled ocelli as large as the lower one on primaries. 

 Frin2;es concolored. 



Under side of primaries dark brown, often with a faint tint of fulvous over the 

 disk ; the patch repeated, the spots also, the upper pair, one or both, usually 

 enlarged. 



Secondaries brown, with broad discal band of darker hue, the inner edge 

 of same irregularly sinuous, the outer sinuous, partly crenate ; the basal and 

 marginal areas paler, with a sprinkling of gray-white scales, as shown in the 

 figure of the female, 4 ; in many examples the entire wing is nearly of one 

 shade, and the markings are ob.solescent as in Fig. 2 ; the spots of upper side 

 repeated, each within a slight ring of fulvous. 



Body brown-black; palpi same ; fore legs same, the others gray-buff; antennae 

 brown above, gray-white below ; club brown above and below, the sides and tip 

 fulvous. (Figs. 1, 2, 5.) 



