Ze2ndopiera of the Altai Mountains. 340 



Valley on June 19th, a very wet day, when I caught three 

 males fresh out at about 4000 feet. On the next day, at 

 the foot of the pass on the road to Kurai, it was quite 

 abundant along the dry bed of a mountain stream, where 

 with Mr. Fletcher's help I got twenty fresh males in an 

 hour. A single female, however, was the only one I could 

 procure, and I never saw the insect again, though Jacobson 

 and Berezowsky got two or three at Ongodai a little 

 smaller, and with a little more fulvous on the fore-wing 

 than in most of my specimens. It flew weakly in the 

 grass, and settled only on stones in the bed of the river, 

 and appeared to be confined to a very limited area. The 

 species is a very distinct one, probably most nearly allied 

 to tristis, from which, however, the chocolate circles sur- 

 rounding the ocelli on the fore-wing and the much richer 

 brown of both wings will constantly distinguish it. In the 

 male only there is a distinct velvety patch in the centre of 

 the fore-wing above. Occasionally tliere are one or two 

 smaller ocelli below the large double-pupilled one. On the 

 hind-wing below there are three distinct marginal white 

 points, and one larger one at the edge of the somewhat 

 indistinct central dark band. There is also a greyish patch 

 near the costa on the hind-wing below. The fringes are in 

 very fresh males dark, but in my only female the edge of 

 the fringe on the fore-wing is grey. The only diiference 

 between the sexes is the jsaler colour of the ring on the 

 fore- wing. 



133. H. afra, Esp. 



I did not take this, but it is recorded by Kindermann and 

 Ruckbeil, and I have specimens from near Semipalatinsk 

 in Grum-Grshimailo's collection. 



134. ^. cyclopius, Ev. 



This fine species, which appears to be an inhabitant 

 of pine forest in the low country rather than a mountain 

 species, was not seen by me, but Herr Tancre has sent me 

 a specimen taken at Justid (?) in the Altai by Ruckbeil, 

 which agrees perfectly with other Siberian specimens. 

 Grum-Grshimailo seems to have found it common near 

 Miask in the Southern Ural, and I have five beautiful 

 fresh pairs from that locality in his collection. Some of 

 these show a tendency to fawn-coloured markings at the end 

 of the veins of the fore-wing. Jacobson also found it in 



