the genus Erehia. 333 



are called typical specimens, and tliere may be occasional 

 hybrids between melampus and pJiarte, which are taken 

 for it. Christ says it is nearest to pyrrlmla, which is a 

 somewhat local high alpine form of manto. E. eriphyle, 

 though extending from Central Switzerland to Carinthia, 

 seems much more local than any other alpine Erehia, and 

 it is to be hoped that now it is better known, further 

 observations will be made on it. 



Of arete, mncstra, and pharte little need be said, as 

 they are species little subject to variation and of limited 

 distribution. 



E .maurisius ,paivlowskyi , haberhauseri and kindermanni, 

 form, with theano, a group apart, distinguished by the 

 pale colour of the cell of the fore wing. The name 

 viaurisius was given a century ago, by Esper, to a species 

 from Siberia which has never been certainly identified. 



E. paivloiuskyi is also unknown except by description, 

 and haherhaueri is almost certainl}^ a mountain form of 

 it. E. kindermanni is described from a pair in Lederer's 

 collection from the Altai, and the description agrees 

 well with sj)ecimens I received from Herr Tancre from 

 the same mountains, which have, however, been since 

 identified by Staudinger with maurisius. I am inclined 

 to think that these four names represent one sjDecies, 

 though I do not know it well enough to say so with 

 certainty. E. sofia is described by Strecker as being on 

 the upper side an almost exact counterpart of kefersteinii 

 (probably he meant haherhaueri, which was sent out by 

 mistake under this name). 



E. manto is a variable species in which the female difi'ers 

 more from the male on the under side than any other. 

 In the commoner alpine form it is marked above 

 with a distinct band of rufous spots containing ocelli, 

 and the female has a distinct yellowish or sometimes 

 whitish band at the base of the hind wings below, as well 

 as an outer band of the same colour ; but in the form 

 called ccecilia these bands in the males are quite obsolete, 

 and the colour is a very dark unspotted brown. I cannot, 

 however, see that the form called vogesiaca by Christ, of 

 which I have specimens from himself, is at all diflerent 

 from those which I have taken at Kandersteg in Switzer- 

 land, and which I at first took for a variety of pharte. 

 There is also a small form called pyrrhida, Frey, which 

 is referred to manto and considered by him to be a high 



