Seal NEws. 341 
rg’ cs aAEMii ol being dinplf’ diiiete ae te 
fornia species, has a tendency in the Northern form to lose 
mtation, the line being a series of loops bent outwardly with, 
| cases, a slight dentation between the veins. 
st assembling of a large series of this genus is very cumber- 
ne, may I ask some of our readers to send me particulars as to 
far this variety occurs? I have frequently been met with 
from collectors to whom I have sent this form of rubra that it 
rer to gloveri than to the generally recognized form of rubra, 
| two species are sufficiently distinct in the median lines to pre- 
possibility of a mistake, but at the same time the northern 
rubra is so different in appearance to warrant a separation 
y, when the investigation is carried to completion, even 
© Eh sy tom a soc of intron 1 2 i 
tion to examine the types of ceanothi, californica and euryalus, which 
gives as synonymous. Possibly some of these may have had 
| 7 ia them.—J. Wa. Cocke, Kaslo, B. C. 
a _Nomes ow Enea ax Exravs—In my list of the species of this genus, 
the ref ses to the immature stages were omitted. The life-history of 
___ but twoof our species have been described and one of these incompletely. 
ay 
‘Butt. N. Am., Vol. ITI, W. H. Edwards minutely described 
the preparatory stages of E. epipsodeas and later H. H. Lyman (Can. 
- Ent. , Vol. XXVIII, p. 274) published the life-history of the same 
ies, his descriptions differing somewhat from those of Edwards. 
magdalena. Thus it can casily be seen how much more 
be learned of the immature stages of Erebia and careful 
think, will climinate several of our forms. 
ia is subconical in shape and irregularly marked 
vertical ridges: The larva, which feeds ex- 
is cylindrical, tapering somewhat posteriorly, and 
the Satyridae, is bifurcate. 
shade of brown or gray, with the 
dorsally and ventrally, and somewhat produced at 
species as they now stand in our catalogues are 
hardly worthy of specific rank. The number of the ocelli and the 
_ degree of mottling on the inferior surface of the secondaries I would 
not consider of sufficient value for distinguishing species as in both 
