Erebia palariea and Erelria stygne. 27 



of the elements of the red blotches, being notched and receding, 

 instead of convex and advancing, in the under-side of £ hind-wing 

 being often more distinctly marked, and in the red blotch in the 

 $ upper wing being continued to costa as a whitish or greyish 

 shade. Appendages, head of clasper more triangular and more 

 definitely marked off by a narrower neck. Expanse 53-64 mm. 

 Habitat, Cantabrian range at Puerto de Pajares, and Picos de 

 Europa, and probably elsewhere. 



I will place type specimens in the National Collection. 



Erebia stygne, var. penalarm, is diagnosed in Proc. Ent. 

 Soc, 1904, p. xlvi, from one specimen only. The series 

 taken this year shows that the race is one of the most 

 variable of stygne. Some are not very different from 

 those taken at Pajares. Others are like that described, 

 and not a few vary even more, so as to seem to be quite 

 on the way to a form like bejarensis. The £ $ show more 

 markedly than the males the remarkable inward extension 

 of the red blotches, which is carried so far in bejarensis. 

 In expanse it is smaller than the hispaniea form from 

 Canales, but larger than that from Pajares. 



The two evias taken at Pajares are small, and are of 

 different types, but are within the limits of variation of 

 E. evias, var. hispaniea, but a good way from its average 

 type. The high-level £ is so very like the £ of stygne 

 taken at the same time and place, that I did not recognize 

 the specimen as evias, even when I had got it home and 

 set it, and only discovered it on critically examining the 

 specimens afterwards. 



Mrs. Nicholl has kindly lent me three specimens, which 

 I may note as a specimen of E. stygne of fairly ordinary 

 type, 48 mm. in expanse, one of several taken on Mont 

 Seny, 6000 feet, near Barcelona, date not given. Mont 

 Seny is almost a spur of the Pyrenees ; this specimen, 

 witli several taken by Mr. Burr, one over the frontier at 

 Salient, May 29th, 1904, proves, what we had no record of 

 before, but which nevertheless every one supposed to be 

 the case, that E. stygne occurs on the south as on the 

 north slope of the Pyrenees, and no doubt more or less 

 throughout the range, and probably abundant enough. 

 The other two specimens are in response to my request 

 to see the most extreme form of evias from the Albarracin 

 district. One of these, expanse 50 mm., is a male taken early 

 in July on the summit of Sierra Camarena (Javalambre, 



