A BUTTERFLY HUNT IN SOME PARTS OF UNEXPLORED FRANCE. 91 
known to British collectors that I think it is worth while to re- 
produce in brief Bellier’s account of it. 
‘Male, rusty brown; all four wings traversed as to two-thirds 
of their breadth by a ferruginous band which mingles somewhat with 
the ground colour, especially on the hind wings. 
“Up. s. f. ws.—Band with two black white-pupilled eyes (some- 
times absent); h. ws. without ocellation. 
“Un. s. f. ws. lighter and more reddish brown, reproducing the 
pattern of the upper side. H. ws. reddish grey, with a broad median 
band of dark brown slightly lunulate ; a marginal band of the same 
colour. Fringes unicolorous on both sides. 
“Female larger than male, from which it hardly differs on the 
upper side, except that the brown is more yellowish and the ferru- 
ginous band clearer. Un.s.h. ws. much clearer grey, with two 
bands of reddish brown, on which the nervures show somewhat 
whitish. Fringes of all the wings plain and unicolorous on both 
sides. 
“Differs from gorge by the wings being more rounded, and the 
fringes simple, not barred. Ground colour of the under side duller 
in tint; band thicker, less festooned, and showing less distinctly from 
the ground colour.” 
In male specimens sent by Dr. Verity, of Florence, to the 
Natural History Museum from the Italian Maritime Alps, the 
blackish-brown androconia are very strongly marked. Bellier 
also notes that it prefers the green pastures like epiphron to the 
gorge-haunted rocks; and this is my experience, also, of the 
species. 
I may add that the plate in the ‘ Annales’ by no means does 
justice to the rich coloration of the var. gorgophone, except that 
of the figure of the under side of the male; and it is to be 
hoped that in some future number of his beautiful ‘ Lépido- 
ptérologie Comparée,’ M. Charles Oberthur will find a place for 
male and female figures of this very striking form of mnestra— 
if such it be. Curiously enough, Mr. H. J. Elwes, in his ‘ Re- 
vision of the Genus Hrebia’ (Trans. Ent. Soc. London, 1898, 
pp- 169-207), makes no mention of it either under mnestra or 
gorge. Of the mnestra group, in his previous ‘ Notes on the Genus 
Erebia’ (loc. cit. 1889, p. 333), he merely remarks that “‘ little need 
be said, as they are species little subject to variation and of limited 
distribution.” Of the Pyrenean LH. gorgone, with which Bellier 
associated it, Dr. Chapman says (loc. cit. 1898, p. 222), ‘‘if it is 
a variety of anything, it is a variety of mnestra.” But he, too, 
in his exhaustive examination of the male appendages of the 
genus, does not appear to have had any material to work out 
the affinities of the Basses-Alpes gorgophone. 
(To be continued.) 
