the genus Eineis. 473 
hind wing are frequently absent in both sexes, and in 
these there is only one ocellus on the fore wing. 
(CH. bore.-—With regard to the specific distinction of 
the European bore and Labrador taygete, I can only say 
that extreme examples of both might be separated on 
account of the generally darker colour, and more distinct 
band on the under side of the hind wing in taygete ; yet, 
according to Dr. Staudinger, it is absolutely impossible 
to separate the latter as a species, and Mr. J. Edwards 
finds the clasp-form of both identical. For a full account 
of the habitat and larva of bore, see Sandberg (I. ¢.). 
Taygete seems to be the commonest species in Labra- 
dor (cf. Méschl.), and, like bore, is found on the sandy 
coast of an Arctic sea. It is quite probable that one or 
other form exists on the coast of Siberia and America, 
but so far I have seen no specimens from other localities. 
(H. semidea.—This species has been so completely 
described by Scudder (Butt. New Eng., i., p. 184) in its 
White Mountain habitat that I need say nothing more 
of it here; but I am still in great doubt as to its distri- 
bution in other localities, because, though stated by 
Moschler to occur in Labrador, where he says it is much 
rarer than taygete and crambis, I have no specimens 
from that locality which I can identify certainly with 
semidea, and what he called semidea from Labrador may 
have been what I call subhyalina. 
As, however, I have examined a specimen in Mr. 
Lyman’s collection, from Hudson Strait, which is cer- 
tainly semidea, I have no doubt of its existence in 
Labrador, though I am unable to give any certain 
characters other than those taken from the clasp, by 
which it may be distinguished. 
All authors who have as yet examined specimens of 
the form occurring in Colorado seem to agree in identi- 
fying them with the typical White Mountain semidea ; 
but, on carefully comparing a series of five pairs from 
each locality, carefully selected from all I have on account 
of their perfection, I can certainly pick out the Colorado 
specimens by the following characters :—On the under side 
more or less distinct white dots ringed with brown, hardly 
worthy of the name of ocelli, are present on the fore and 
hind wings in every specimen, and are quite well marked 
on the fore wing of the female; whilst in the White 
Mountain specimens the ocelli are so faint as to be hardly 
