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Erebia Sofia. Expands 11-2 inches. 



Upper surface dark brown. Primaries crossed by a sub-marginal 

 land of rusty yellow or sienna coloured, divided by the brown ner- 

 vures and nervules ; an indication of the same colour in the discoidal 

 cell. The secondaries have a sub-marginal row of four sj3ots, the two 

 of which nearest the apex are confluent, and the others rather remote 

 from each other. To those acquainted with exotic Lepidoptera, I 

 need only say that this is on the upper side almost a counterpart of 

 E. Kefersteinii, Ev., from W. Siberia. 



Under surface : Primaries dark rust red, paler within and at the 

 terminal part of the discoidal cell, and with the band as above, but 

 paler in colour ; that portion of the surface exterior to this band is 

 brown, as is also the costa. Sacondaries brown, not quite as dark as 

 above, the four spots of upper side repeated, but white, with the 

 faintest tinge of yellow instead of the rust colour as above. 



The single example from which this description was taken is pre- 

 sumably a 9 > though the body is in such a hideous condition from 

 the handling of its Esquimaux captor that its sex cannot be with any 

 certainty determined. It was taken, along with the two above de- 

 scribed Coliades, above Fort Churchill, and sent to Mr. Woldemar 

 Geffcken, of Stuttgart, Germany, from whom I received them. 



Erebia Magdalena. J* expands 2 inches. Shape of E. Alecto, 

 Hub., which it closely resembles throughout. Whole upper surface 

 dark blackish brown, devoid of any mark or decoration whatever 

 Under surface brownish black much as above, but with the inner two 

 thirds of wings a shade darker than the marginal third, but a shade 

 only ; this surface is likewise destitute of all ornamentation. 



Described from three examples, all males, taken by Prof. E. T. 

 Owen in the summer of 1879 in some almost inaccessible place on the 

 mountains near Georgetown. Colorado. In mus. Strecker. 



It was with no ordinary degree of comfort that I received this 

 species, for here the soulless routine work of description need be but 

 of the briefest, and sundry jjages of entomological jargon to madden 

 the unhappy student could not be perpetrated even had it fallen into 

 the hands of those ambitious to so amuse themselves. 



Sphinx Halicarnie. 9 expands 2 5-8 inches. Upper surface 

 light fawn or drab gray, slightly darker on top of head, thorax, and 

 costa of primaries than elsewhere ; towards and at the exterior mar- 

 gin of primaries somewhat whitish, though insensibly blending into 

 the drab of rest of wing, so as to make no marked difference. A 

 rather short dark-brown streak in the space between the second and 



