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central fascia. Subcostal vein arising nearer the body than the precostal; its branch 
arising at a moderate distance from the base of the wing. The upper discocellular vein 
longer than the space between its base and that of the branch, and sometimes rather 
arched ; the lower discocellular considerablj' longer, straight, more oblique, uniting with 
the third branch of the median vein at a short distance from its base ; closing the discoidal 
cell rather beyond the middle of the wing. 
" Fore legs of the male extremely minute, concealed among the hairs of the breast, very densely 
hairy. The tarsus much shorter than the tibia, and very slender. Fore legs of the female 
much longer, scaly, slender ; the outside of the tibia and tarsus with a few very long setae. 
The tarsus nearly as long as the tibia, scaly, not very distinctly articulated ; the extremity 
armed with fine setae-like spines. 
" Four Jiincl legs moderately long, slender, scaly. Femur clothed within with long hairs. Tibia 
armed with a few spines, those on the sides beneath forming rows. Tarsus nearly as long 
as the tibia, more thickly and irffegularly spined. Ungues simple. Pulvilli very minute. 
" Abdomen moderately short and slender." ( Westivood, I. c.) 
Erebia sedakovii. (Plate IX. fig. 10, var.) 
Hipparchia sedakovii, Eversmanu, Bull. Mosc. 1847, pi. i. figs. 5, 6. 
Erebia sedakovii, Herricli-ScliafPer, Schmett. Eur. i. figs. 591, 592 ; Pryer, Rliop. Nihon. 
p. 31, pi. ix. figs. 4aj 4b. 
Erebia niphonica, Janson, Cistula Entom. ii. p. 153 (1877). 
Erebia scoparia, Butler, Proc. Zool. Soc. Loud. 1881, p. 849; Waterliouse, Aid Ident. 
Ins. ii. pi. 105. 
Erebia alcmena, Gr. Grsliimailo, Horse Ross. 1891, p. 457. 
Var. niphonica, Janson, " Above dark brown, body and base of wings blackish ; primaries with a 
large ochreous patch beyond the middle extending from the subcostal nervure almost to the 
inner margin, subovate, slightly narrowed in the middle and dentate externally, containing a 
douljlo l)lack spot in front and a smaller roimd one behind ; secondaries with an ill-defined 
rcddish-l)rown transverse band beyond the middle, containing three small round black spots 
near its outer edge, the one nearest the anal angle with a white pupil : beneath brown, 
primaries marked as above ; secondaries with the l)and sliglitly indicated by dusky brown, 
the white pupil alone distinct. In the female the black spots on both wings have conspicuous 
white pupils above and below, the spots on the upperside of secondaries are only partly 
surrounded with reddisli ochreous in place of the band in the male, beneath they have a 
large dusky white basal patch and a conspicuous silvery-white sinuous band. Expanse 
of wings 1 inch 10 lines. — Taken by ]SIr. Jonas on Assaraayama, at an elevation of about 
7000 feet. Allied to E. stijgne, Fisch. Eut. lluss. i. pi. i. fig. 2." {Janson, h c). 
Var. scoparia. " Allied to E. ni^^lionica, l)ut broader and altogether different on tlio under 
Hurface. "Wings above ricii sericeous fuliginous brown ; primaries darker than the second- 
aries ; the disk crossed by a broad, irregular, briglit oclireous band not reaching the costal 
or inn(!r margins, enclosing three black ocelli with white pujnls, the two upper ones confluent 
!in(i pi, iced ujion tlie radial interspaces, the third placed ui)on the first median interspace ; 
