204 Mr. H. J. Elwes’s 
strictly confined to stones and boulders as glacialis, but 
the great elevation and very uncertain weather of these 
high mountains make it a difficult species to procure in 
good condition. 
I am inclined to think that asubgenus might be formed 
for EL. magdalena, E. erinna, aud perhaps £. fasciata ; but 
I know so little of all of them at present that it may be 
better to wait before separating them from Hredia. 
Erebia erinna, Stgr. Iris. vii, p. 247, t. ix, fig. 2, gf 
(1894). 
Dr. Staudinger described this from a single pair from 
“Ost Sajan,” probably a part of the mountains on the 
upper Yenesei river south of Minusinsk, which are 
marked in maps as the Sayansk mountains. M. Alphéraky 
very kindly sent me a damaged male, one of two which 
the Grand Duke Nicholas Mikhailovitch received from the 
Irkut river, which appears to rise in the very high moun- 
tains (over 11,000 feet) on the Chinese frontier, east of 
the Sayansk range; it may possibly be from the same 
source as the types. Staudinger compares the insect with 
H. glacialis, to which he says it stands next, but both the 
genitalia and the neuration are different from those of 
glacialis, and, as Dr. Chapman says, absolutely identical 
with those of #. magdalena, which is only known from the 
highest mountains of Central Colorado. 
{ can, in fact, distinguish it specifically from #. magda- 
lena only by the brown colour of the disk and inner part 
of the forewing on both sides, which in magdalena are 
quite black like the rest of the forewing. 
The name was first written erynnis by Staudinger, 
but afterwards in a footnote on p. 876 of the same 
volume changed to evinna on account of the similarity of 
the former spelling with the var. erynis of E. gorge. 
Erebia afra. 
This seems to be widely distributed over Southern 
Russia, and it occurs also in Asia Minor in the Altai 
Mountains and in the Turcoman country. The form 
which is isolated in Dalmatia (dalmata, Godt.) seems to 
