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NTMPHALID^. 
Erebia saxicola. 
Erebia saxicola, Oberthiir, Etud. d'Entom. ii. p, 32, pi. iv. fig. 1 (1876). 
" L'Erebia snxicola a les ailes un peu arrondies, bran trcs-fonee en dessus, avec la partie mediane 
de I'aile superieure marquee d'unetache plus foncee et veloutee, at une double pupille blanche 
place's dans une macule roude, tres-noire, situee vers la sommet de I'aile. En dessous, 
VErebia sa.vkola a I'aile superieure largemeut lavee de fauve-carmine avec la cote et le bord 
externe gris brun. La tache orbiculaire noire du dessus se reproduit en dessous. EJle est de 
mcme pupillee de deux points blancs. L'aile inferieure est d'un brun claire un peu jaunatre, 
marquee d'une quantitc de petits traits bruns. Un petit point noiratre se trouve entre deux 
nervures, pros de Tangle anal, et une legore eclaircie se detache sur la teinte du fond, qu'elle 
traverse en une bande parallele au bord esterieur. Les antennes sont tres-finement annelees 
de noir et de blanc. 
" UErehia saxicola a un aspect assez grele, I'abdomen mince et court, les ailes d'une texture peu 
cpaisse ; elle forme un groupe un peu a part dans le genre EreUa." (Oberthiir, I. c.) 
Mons. Oberthiir says that this species is found on the Ourato mountains in 
Mongolia, and occurs at an altitude of about 6000 feet. It is fond of resting 
on rocks and secreting itself among stones. 
Erebia ruricola. (Plate IX. fig. 4, c? .) 
Erebia ruricola, Leech, Entomologist, xxiii. p. 187 (1890). 
Callerebia delavayi, Oberthiir, Etud. d^Entom. xv, p. 13, p. ii. fig. 18 (1891). 
Male. Dark brown ; central area of primaries blackish, outer third paler ; a large black spot with 
two white pupils, and faintly encircled with pale brown towards apex ; there is often a white 
dot towards anal angle of secondaries. Under surface grey-brown : on primaries the ocellus 
of upper surface is reproduced, and is ringed with pale fulvous ; below it is a small ocellus, 
and there is sometimes a still smaller one between them, placed on the edge of the former ; 
below apex there is a reddish-brown cloud, and there are indications of a band of the same 
colour between large ocellus and discoidal cell : the secondaries are traversed by reddish-brown 
lines, the most conspicuous being two broad ones from middle of costa, which terminate just 
before median nervare, and one from middle of abdominal margin to outer margin ; there is 
a submarginal scries of white dots ; the outer margin and centres of the wing are also dashed 
with white. 
Expanse 58 millim. 
Nearly allied to E. saxicola, Oberth., but the white pupils of apical ocellus 
arc ))laccd more directly on(.' under the other ; tlie antenna? are pale brown, 
and tlio clubs are black beneath. On the under surface the colour of 
primaries is different, and there is an additional ocellus tow.ards outer angle; 
the iriaikings an; more distinctly defined on the secondaries. 
TIk! specimen oi E. (C.) delavayi from Yunnan, figured by M. Oberthiir, is 
rather larger than my specimens, but it does not present any other differences 
of importance. 
