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secondaries with three white points on the median and radial interspaces, only the first (on 
the first median interspace) distinct and snow-white : thorax fuliginous hrown, abdomen 
blackish. Primaries below nearly as above, but the internal area greyish and the external 
border bright chocolate-brown ; secondaries much as in E. medca, bright chocolate-brown, 
with faint indications of a slightly more olivaceous broad angular belt just before the middle ; 
the disk slightly greyish, showing the white dots of the upper surface distinctly, the first of 
these is black-edged ; fringe of all the wings dull black, mottled with testaceous ; pectus 
fuliginous brown, legs and venter pale brown. Expnise of wings, 2 inches 1 line. — Kuramat- 
sunai, Shiribetsu, Hokkaido, 2iid week in August (coH. M. Featon)." (Butler, I. c.) 
Yar. alciueiia. (Plate IX. fig. 10,(3".) "Species Erebla sedalcovii, Ev., proxima, sed alls anticis 
supra fascia fulva introrsum recurvata, fimbria latiore ; subtus anticis cerasino-fulvis, apice, 
costa et area interna griseo raixtis, posticis griseo-fuscis, pictura distinctissima, limbo magno- 
pere dentato. S 5 22-23 mm. In regioue Amdo dicta, in montibus Dschachar reperta." 
{Gv. GrsJiimailo, I. c.) 
JE. niphonica, Jans., scojmria, Butl., and alcmena, Gr. Grsh., are certainly 
nothing more than local races of the Siberian sedaJcomi. The form alcmena 
occurs plentifully at Ta-chien-lu and How-kow ; the Chinese examples, how- 
ever, ditfer from specimens sent me by M. Grum Grshimailo from the 
Dshachar mountains in the paler fascia of primaries and greyer coloration of 
under surface of secondaries. It flies at an altitude of 10,000 feet in July. 
Erebia herse. (Plate IX. fig. 7 ?, 8 d.) 
Erebia herse, Gr. GrstimailO; HoriB E,oss. 1891, p. 457. 
" Alis c? supra nigris, limbo anticarum, sajpe venam transversam superaute, lato, cerasino-fulvo, 
maculis nigris ; apice permagna, albo-pupillata, in cellula 2" parva, nonnum()uam dcficicnte, 
notato. Fimbria lutea, in nervis nigro-fusco interrupta. Subtus disco anticarum cerasino- 
fulvo, basin versus obscuriore, late nigro-fusco circumdato, apice pallidiore, grisescenti mixto 
et tenuiter nigro-fusco marmorato ; macula ocellari fulvo circumdata ; posticis plus minusve 
unicoloribus nigro-fuscis et nigro marmoratis, maculis parvis, saspe vix conspicuis, sordide 
griseis notatis. 
" Alis 5 supra et subtus pallidioribus maculis majoribus, limbo fulvo anticarum cum area fulva 
cellulae media} sjepe confluente. 
" Exp. c? 2 23-24 mm." 
M, Grum Grshimailo says that this species, which is allied to Erchia 
Jcalinda, Moore, was discovered by himself in the mountains of Sinin. I have 
specimens from Ta-chien-lu and How-kow, and these are larger than the Sinin 
specimens, but agree with them in all other respects, excepting one female 
example, which has two white pupils in the subapical ocellus of primaries 
and three ocelli below. On the secondaries of this specimen there is also a 
black spot between the first and second median nervules. 
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