Erebia palarica and Erebia stygne. 11 



haps a trifle larger than those from Dauphine and the 

 Pyrenees." 



On the 19th, "stygne was nearly over." Mrs. Nicholl 

 tells me that she also took evias (" mostly worn, rather 

 large type, and high up, none low down ").* I have 

 already noted two specimens of evias are mixed with the 

 stygne (no doubt some of the few noted above) from the 

 Picos in the drawers at South Kensington. I incline to 

 think they were not so mixed by Mrs. Nicholl, but, whoever 

 did so, afforded a proof that the high-level July evias from 

 the Picos does, in some of its specimens at least, closely 

 resemble the stygne of the same time and place. The 

 note in the " Record " proceeds : " On July 22nd, at a 

 height of 3000 to 3500 ft. I saw several large Erebias, quite 

 fresh out. I caught six or seven specimens, all males, and 

 considered them to be E. sethiops and therefore only kept 

 a couple, . . . they turned out to be very large specimens of 

 E. stygne!' These two specimens are E. palarica. Both 

 specimens are, however, poor, the, one in the British 

 Museum, the best, is very far from fresh, so that the 

 difference of date between E. palarica and E. stygne is less 

 than Mrs. Nicholl's note implies. They are no doubt on 

 the wing at the same time at the Picos, as I found them 

 this year at Pajares. I must take my share of responsi- 

 bility for declaring these specimens of palarica to have 

 been stygne. They were very much the same size as my 

 E. stygne, var. bejare-nsis,^ with which I was then busy. So 

 that their large size did not suggest specific difference, 

 whilst the genitalia of the specimen I examined, though 

 not quite typical stygne, were within the limits of variation 

 found in these appendages in other species of the genus. 

 With the small amount of material available the conclusion 

 seemed clear that it must be regarded as a var. of stygne, 

 possibly near var. bejarensis, both being very large, but 

 certainly requiring further investigation. 



We now come to my observations of the present year 

 (1904). From July 8th to July 22nd, Mr. Champion and 

 I stayed at Puerto de Pajares, which is the pass across the 

 Cantabrian Mountains followed by both the road and the 

 railway from Leon to Gijon, at an elevation of about 

 4500 ft., and at several places in the neighbourhood we 



* See Notes on evias later. 



f (The specimen in B. Mus. is 56 mm. ; small for palarica, 

 a maximum for bejarensis.) 



