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apical width ; the outer ones gradually enlarge, becoming trans- 

 verse, and are setose with long stiff hairs. It is a graceful little 

 thing, not over .02 inch, long, resembling much an Aleocharid, 

 but the antennae are not inserted on the front and are very con- 

 spicuous. I put more than a dozen into a collecting-bottle with 

 other things, and only succeeded in getting two out of it, — a 

 warning that the collector should always have something at hand 

 for special things. 



EREBIA SOFIA Streck. 

 By Dr. Herman Strecker, Reading, Pa. 



Having examined an example in Dr. Skinner's collection of 

 the Erebia described in "Can. Ent." vol. xiii, p. 31, 1891, by 

 Mr. W. H. Edwards as a new species under the name of Erebia 

 Ethe/a, I find it to be identical with the above E. sofia described 

 by myself in "Bull. Brook. Ent. Soc." p. 35, 1881; the type 

 came from west coast of Hudson Bay, high up, was sent with 

 large numbers of other Lepidoptera from the Episcopal Mission 

 to Mr. W. Jeffcken by Archdeacon Kirtby, who sojourned in 

 those inhospitable regions for over twenty years. 



Mr. Edwards' types were, as he states, taken by Prof. Ed. T. 

 Owen in the Yellowstone Park, Montana. It is not, however, as 

 its author states ' ' allied to Erebia epipsodea, ' ' but is exceedingly 

 close to E. Kefersteinii Ev. , a Siberian species. 



The representation of the genus Erebia in our fauna is very 

 meagre; al^l are, of course, confined to the Alpine and Arctic 

 regions of the continent, the following are all so far known: 



/?/>a Thub. — That T^^j'^' Curt. ^^nA fas data Butl. are but va- 

 rieties of this species there seems to me to be but little doubt. I 

 have received ya.y«a/« from Hudson Bay above Fort Churchill, 

 also a single example through the goodness of Mr. Fletcher from 

 Nepigon; this differs from the Polar examples, but not to a de- 

 gree that would warrant specific separation. 



Discoidalis Kby. — A beautiful and conspicuous species occur- 

 ring from the Polar regions downwards in various parts of British 

 America; also in East Siberia. 



Epipsodea Butl. — A species peculiar to the Rocky Mountains 

 of Colorado, etc. 



