EKEBIA EPIPHRON, KNOCH. 



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execution, and follow Duponchel's closely. All the same, on 

 plate 34, liv, 5 partie 1, there is a fair representation of a male 

 Epiphron, the chestnut hand on the fore wings continuous with 

 three black spots ; the hind wings with four well-developed 

 chestnut-ringed lilack spots, which suggest that the model was 

 derived from the Vosges rather than the Alps. 



Boisduval, in his ' Index Methodicus ' (1829), divides the 

 species and its near allies as follows : 



Epiphron, F., Och Hircynia . Julii. 



lanthe, H. 



Pharte, Esp., H., God. . . . Alpes . . Julii, Augusti. 



Melampus, Esp., Och., God. . . x\lpes . . Julh. 



Cassiope, F., H., Och., God. . . Pyren. . . Julu. 



Var. Nelamus, Bd. (SubciBca) 



Mjiestra, Esp., H., Och., God. . . Alpes . . Julii. 



Var. Mnemon, Haworth . . Alp. Scotic . 



In this classification the var. Nelamus makes its first appear- 

 ance, laconically described as " almost blind " in the matter of 

 the ocellation, the author apparently not having yet made the 

 acquaintance of the form named years after ohsoleta by J, W. Tutt. 



Later, Boisduval, in his ' Icones ' (p. 179, 1833), expresses 

 himself somewhat forcibly both upon the views of the German 

 writers and Godart's unhappy plate. " Fabricius and the German 

 authors," he observes, "describe a species nearly related to this 

 [i. e. Melampus] under the name of Epiphron. 1 very much 

 ^ouht the authenticity of the pretended species, because all those 

 I have received from Germany and other localities under the 

 name of Epiphron have been either Cassiope or Melampus. As 

 for Godart's Epiphron I don't know what he wished to represent ; 

 I think it must be Ceto." The plates in the ' Icones ' devoted to 

 the Erebias are extremely fine, and the copy before me has 

 retained its primitive freshness of coloration. 



Prof. Cantener (' Hist. Nat. Lepid. Rhopaloceres des Departe- 

 mens des Haut et Bas lihin, de la Moselle, de la Meurthe, et des 

 Yosges,' Nancy, 1834) continues the record (p. 134) as follows : 



" Nelamus, Boisd., variete de Cassiope, Alpes de Daupbine ; 

 Juillet, ' Ind. Method,' pag. 22, Boisd. 



" Epiphron (i) Fab., Hyrcinie, Juillet, ' Ind. Method,' pag. 22, 

 Boisd." 



" (i) Nous croyons devoir d'autant plus signaler ici la doute que le 

 Docteur Boisduval eleve a la page 178 de son icones sur I'authen- 

 ticite de cette espece, que Godart I'indique comme appartenante aux 

 montaignes des Vosges ; sans aflivmer positivement qu'elle ue s'y 

 rencontre pas, nous devons dire que les renseignments qui nous ont 

 ete fournis par MM. les amateurs qui chassent habituellement dans 

 •ces contrees, ne portent pas qu'au nombre de cinq les especes du 

 genre Erehia, qui jusqu'a present y aient ete trouvees ; ces especes 

 •sont Stygne, Medusa, Cassiope, Blandina et Ligea " — 



