336 Mr. H. J. Elwes' notes on 



Alps or in the mountains of Asia Minor, and the Central 

 Pyrenean and Armenian forms resemble each other as 

 much as those of the Central and Eastern Pyrenees. A 

 more remarkable case of interrupted distribution without 

 apparent cause, and of similar variation in the extreme 

 points of the range, is hardly to be found in any other 

 species. It occurs also in the mountains of Asturias 

 (var astur, Ob.) and in Central Spain. The only female 

 from Greece which I have examined has the under side 

 of the hind wing mottled in a different way to any of the 

 females of either Pyrenean form. 



E. meta and its var. gertha, Stgr., from Osch and 

 Namagan, in Eastern Turkestan, are not nearly allied to 

 any European species, though they seem to me too close to 

 E. mopsos, Stgr., which comes from the same mountains. 

 Staudinger, however, after comparing large numbers of 

 both, thinks them distinct. Alexandra is another form 

 from the same region, which Staudinger places as 

 a form of mopsos, but Von Gumppenberg calls a synonym 

 of meta. I expect all these four will have to be united 

 as one species eventually, though my materials are not 

 sufficient to enable me to do so with certainty at present. 



E. turanica, Ersch., and var. loeta, Stgr. — A very dis- 

 tinct species, which Staudinger places between pharte 

 and theano, is found in the Alatau, Namagan, Kuldja, 

 and other parts of North-Eastern Turkestan, and has no 

 near allies either in Europe or Asia as far as we know 

 yet. The series of white spots, sometimes coalescing into 

 a band on the under side of the liind wing, distinguish it 

 at a glance. 



E. glacialis is a very distinct species of the high alps, 

 which is almost entirely without ocelli, though aberra- 

 tions rarely occur in which they are present. It has no 

 near allies in Europe or Asia, but in the highest peaks 

 of Colorado, frequenting the same stony rocky slopes as 

 glacialis, is found a sj^ecies which considerably resembles 

 it, namely, E. magdalena, Streck. An excellent account 

 of this rare species, of which I have lately received si)e- 

 cimens from Mr. Bruce, is given, with figures, in a recent 

 part of Edwards' 'Butterflies of North America'; and 

 I may here note that E. haydeni, which he figures with 

 it, and of which I have both sexes from the Yellowstone 

 Park, is, I believe, a Coenonymplia and not an Erehia. 



E. scipio, Boisd., and cpistygnc, Hiib., are two species 



