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pioximally .sharply limited and exteriorly teel)ly incurved in the middle. The hand hears anteriorly 2 white- 

 centred rontiijnous ocelli, followed near the hindmarsj;in by a somewhat smaller one which is Imt occasionally 

 centred with white. The band of the hindwing consists of 4 rounded or angular spots, of which 3 or 

 4 bear ocelli with minute white pupils. The band of the forewing is beneath more irregular and somewhat 

 darker russet than abo\e, the apex of the wing being dusted with bluish grey. The hindwing Ijeneath 

 grey-brown from the base to the middle, then there follows a proximally somewhat dentate ashy gre\- 

 band, the distal area being of the same colour as the base; the ocelli are completely absent. The ? is 

 lighter throughout, the ocelli moreover are as a rule somewhat larger than in the cf. The fringes brownish 

 grey in the cf, white-grey in the ?. — Oberthltr tigures as margarita a small specimen from the Eastern margarita. 

 Pyrenees, the upperside vividly recalling that of zapaferi, while the underside is as in HcofidaH. — The 

 nymotypical form tlies in the Basses Alpes, for instance in the neighbourhood of Digne. — Egg light 

 grey, with dark ribs. Larva greenish yellow, with dark dorsal stripe, whitish side-stripe and dark-bordered 

 white spiracles. Head with 2 dark spots, brown, as are also the legs. On Poa annua and Panicum san- 

 guinale. The butterfly from June to September. 



E. zapateri olnrlli. (37 e). The upperside dark black-brown, near the distal margin there is an zapateri. 

 anteriorly broad, posteriorly tapering ochre-yellow band, which bears costally one behind the other 2 ocelli 

 with white pupils. The hindwing is usually without markings, there appearing sometimes in place of the 

 band 3 russet-red or reddish yellow small round spots with black dots. The underside of the forewing is 

 russet, the yellow band posteriorly abbreviated, the 2 ocelli larger than above, the apex of the wing dusted 

 with grey. The hindwing beneath with brown basal area and lighter distal band, without ocelli or dots. 

 In the ? the distal band is ashy grey, being dusted with minute brown atoms. — In the mountainous 

 disti'icts of Aragonia and Catalonia. 



E. sedakovii AV. (= stygne Fhrli.-Wulil.) (37 e). Dark black-brown above; the dentition of W\& sedakovii. 

 wings hardly indicated in the cf, but distinct in the ?, in the latter sex the margin chequered grey and 

 brown. The ochre-yellow distal band is proximally straight, distally somewhat sinuate, bearing 3 white- 

 centred ocelh of equal size, the upper 2 being united. Below them there is sometimes, a little shifted 

 distad, a small black eye-spot, which is not visible beneath. The hindwing with a narrow reddish yellow 

 band, which includes 3 white-centred black ocelli. The underside cinnamon-colour in the c/, the band of 

 the forewing as above, tlie someMhat grey- scaled distal band of the hindwing Init slightly prominent and 

 bearing 8 narrowly black-edged white dots. The ? is yellowish brown beneath, the band of the forewing 

 being lighter than al)ove and the costal margin grey-yellow. The distal band of the hindwing is light 

 white-grey and the 3 white spots situated in the same are bordered with brown. From the Altai and the 

 mountains of Amurland. — niphonica Jans, is the Japanese form, from the heights of the Asama-Yania nip/ionka. 

 (7000 ft.). The cf beneath evenly brown, while the underside of the ? is strongly fasciated with white. — 

 In scoparia Btlr. the upperside is as in niphonicu, but the underside is more variegated, the forewing being scoparia. 

 basally densely dusted with white and deep chocolate at the outer margin; the underside of the hindwing 

 vividly recalling that of acfhiops, but the pupils come through from the upperside as distinct white dots. 

 In Hokkaido (Yezzo), in August. — alcmene Gi-.-GrsJi. (37 e), from the Dshakar Mts. (? and Amdo), ditfers akmene. 

 from sedakovii in the russet band of the forewing above being incurved and duller yellow: the ocelli of the 

 same moreover have no pupils or only very indistinct ones. The specimens from We.st China are 

 distinguished from Tibetan examples by the paler colour of the band of the forewing and a more uniform 

 grey colour of the underside of the hindwing. — The buttertly is not rare in Siberia and on the north 

 island of Japan, being very local on the main island of Japan, and very plentiful in Western iJiina at an 

 elevation of 10000 ft. in July and August. 



E. aethiops As/). (= blandina /''., media W. V., medusa likli., alcyone Steir.) (87 e). The wings are aeihiops. 

 dentate, the distal margin being grey-brown in the c/', and chequered white-grey and brown in the ?. The 

 distal band of the forewing, which is russet-brown in the cT and reddish vellow in the ?, is somewhat 

 constricted in the middle, narrowing behind in both sexes. The band has usually 3 white-centred black 

 ocelli, of which the upper two are united, the third standing towards the hindmargin and being a little 

 smaller. In between these ocelh there is sometimes a black eye-spot, which has but rarely a pupil, 

 appearing mostly as a simple black dot. The band of the hindwing is narrower and has 3, more rarely 4, 

 white -centred ocelli. The forewing beneath grey- brown, the distal margin a little lighter, the band and 

 ocelli as above. Underside of the hindwing reddish brown, somewhat paler at the base, with a grey-scaled 

 discal band bearing 8—4 white dots which are thinly edged with })lack. In the ? the underside of the 

 hindwing is much lighter, the basal area being white-gre>', more or less dusted with grey, the median band 

 brown or grey-brown, somewhat excurved, the distal liand light ashy grey with 3 or 4 very minute wliite- 

 centred black dots, the distal margin of the same colour as the median band. From Scotland and Livonia 

 to Italy and South-East Siberia, also in the plains. — leucotaenia Stip-. (= neoridas Fn-.) (37 e) is a. leucolaenia. 

 sporadically occurring form wliich is more plentiful in the South, the distal band on the underside of the 



