106 EREBIA. By G. Eipfingee. 



melusina. forewing being stronglj' scaled white. — In melusina ll.-Sr/uiff. (B7f) the russet band of both wings is 

 liioader, that of the hindwing being continnous; otiierwise not different from the tirst described form. In 

 aetliiopella. Armenia, Kurdistan and Northern Asia Minor. — aethiopella has been described by Stauuixgkr from a 

 single specimen from Kentei. The forewing has but faint vestiges of the brown transverse band, while the 

 band is entirely absent from the hindwing, this wing bearing above 3, jjeneath 4 large white submarginal 

 dots. The band-like marking on the hindwing beneath, which is always present in (lethinps, is entirely 

 wanting. The author, however, leaves it undecided whether we have here to do with a constant variety 

 or an accidental aberration of urtliioiis or some other species. — Egg pale yellowish red, ribbed longitudinally 

 and finely transversely. Larva yellowish grey, lighter at the sides, with light-bordered dark dorsal line, 

 each ring bearing laterally a dark longitudinal stripe; spiracles black; till June on Poa annua, Agrostis 

 canina, Dactylis glomerata, etc.; in day-time well concealed. Pupa brownish yellow, the wing-cases bone- 

 colour and the head darker. The butterfly a})peais at the end of July and flies in a slow, probing flight over 

 the grassy ground of open woods. They .suck at flowers, especially C.ompositae, and have a predilection 

 for the perspiiation of man, on hot days fluttering around people and settling on the hand to imbibe the 

 moisture. Very plentiful where they occur, and not restricted to definite flight-places. 



melandwiica. E. melancholica H.-Sclniff'. But little smaller than nrlhidiis, the pattern similar as in that species; 



the ocelli in the russet band of the fore- and hindwing are conspicuously centred with white. The fore- 

 wing beneath grey-brown, the band not defined proxinially, gradually disappearing in the ground-colour. 

 The underside of the hindwing with a rather broad russet -yellow band, without ocelli or dots; the base 

 and distal area yellowish grey, the median band grey-brown, somewhat sinuate distally. — Area of distribu- 

 tion : Caucasus, Southern Armenia, Altai Wts. 



debanensis. E. dcbanensis Krsrii. (37 f). Upperside dark black-brown, on the forewing a straigid submarginal 



row of 4 round small black spots bearing black dots; before the margin of the hindwing there are as a 

 rule 3, but rarely 4, such red-lnown spots, which are only very minutely or not at all dotted with black. 

 The underside of the forewing grey-brown, with an obsolescent russel-l)rown distal band, the ocelli of which 

 have a somewhat lighter border. The apex and distal margin thinly dusted with white-grey. The under- 

 side of the hindwing is somewhat more densely scaled white-grey and has a but little darker dentate median 

 band which is sharply defined in- and outwardly and bordered by a narrow whitish dentate line here and 

 there on both sides. The ocelli which are situated in the somewhat lighter distal area are smaller than 

 above, being sometimes altogether absent or replaced by small, hardly visible, black dots. Before the outer 

 margin there is a submarginal band composed of small obsolescent brown spots. The ? is lighter, more 

 grey-brown, the ocelli of the hindwing are distinctly larger and on the underside of the hindwing of the 

 iiindra. same size as above. From East Siberia. — tundra N///-. is smaller, the distal band of the upjieiside 

 somewhat obsolescent, beneath broader and proxinially and distally sharply defined. The underside o.f the 

 hindwing scaled white-grey, with dark brown, distally dentate, median band and liefore the distal margin a 

 fletcheri. sbghtly dentate dark transverse line. Likewise from East Siberia. — fletcheri A7«'., of which we know 

 only the figure of the single sure ? captured by Flktcheh at 7500 ft. in the Altai Mfs., is we think nothing 

 but a specimen of dcbdnensh in which the reddish yellow borders of the ocelli of the forewing are merged 

 together on both sides to form a broad russet band. On the hindwing the small ocelli are widely separated 

 from one another. The median band on the underside of the hindwing is dark and somewhat prominent 

 in rlrbunensk, while in pclrhcri it is of the same dark brown colour as the rest of the wing, so that only 

 the edges of this band are visible as two finely dentate black curved lines. Found in July between Kurai 

 and Bashkaus. 



meia. E. meta. A species which is very variable in size and pattern. The nymotypical meta Stip-. is of 



about the same size as ceto. The ground-colour is dark black-brown, before the distal margin there are 

 4 — 5 separated, rounded, russet -brown spots bearing black dots. The upper 2 spots, which are a little 

 shifted basad, mostly touch each other, being sometimes confluent. The hindwing has .5, more rarely 6, 

 smaU roundish brown spots with black dots. On the underside of the forewing the brown borders of the 

 black dots are somewhat widened and the distal ai-ea bearing these spots is somewhat washed with brown. 

 On the underside of the hindwing there is between the ocelh and the cell a row of white transverse bars 

 which stand on the veins. These markings are very variable, the white transverse bars being quite obsolete 

 in man}' specimens, while in other individuals, especially in ??, the white scaling is widened and forms a 

 narrow irrugular white trans\erse band. Antenna finely ringed above, whitish beneath, the club black- 

 brown with reddish jellow tip. In July on the alpine meadows in the mountains of Osh in East Turkestan, 

 mopsos. and in the Altai. — The form mopsos N/,'/'., from Namangan in Turkestan, has the dull red spots bearing 

 the black eye-spots longer and broader than nymotypical meta, the spots being sometimes confluent, forming 

 an irregular russet-red distal band. On the underside, however, the black dots have but narrow brown 

 borders; the dots on the hindwing beneath are smaller than above and sometimes situated in narrow brown 

 rings, but are mostly without these rings. The black dots are very prominent in the distal area, which is 



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