98 NYMPHALID.E. 
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 thau 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 bejond 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 setie. 
The tarsus nearly as long as the tibia, scaly, not very distinctly articulated ; the extremity 
armed with fine setae-like spines. 
" Four liind 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 irregularly spined. Ungues simple. PulviUi very minute. 
" Abdomen moderately short and .slender." ( Westwood, I. c.) 
Erebia sedakovii. (Plate IX. fig. 10, var.) 
Hipparchia sedakovii, Eversmann, Bull. Mosc. 1847, pi. i. figs. 5, 6. 
Erebia sedakovii, Herricli-Scliaffer, Schmett. Eur. i. figs. 591, 592 ; Pryer, Rhop. Nilion. 
p. 31, pi. ix. figs, -ia, 4-6. 
Erebia niphonica, Jauson, Cistula Entom. ii. p. 153 (1877). 
Erebia scoparia, Butler, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. 1881, p. 849 ; Waterliouse, Aid Ident. 
Ins. ii. pi. 105. 
Erebia alcmena, Gr. Grsliimailo, Horse Ross. 1891, p. 457. 
Var. niphonica, Jauson. " Above dark brown, body and base of wings blackish ; primaries with a 
large ochreous patch beyond the middle extending from the subcostal uervure almost to the 
inner margin, subovate, slightly narrowed in the middle and dentate externally, containing a 
double black spot in front and a smaller round one behind ; secondaries with an ill-defined 
reddish-brown 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 band slightly 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 reddish 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 Mr. Jonas on Assamayama, at an elevation of about 
7000 feet. Allied to E. shjgm, Fisoh. Ent. Euss. i. pi. i. fig. 2." {Janson, I. c). 
Var. scoparia. "Allied to E. nipJioniea, but broader and altogether different on the under 
surface. Wings above rich sericeous fuliginous brown ; primaries darker than the second- 
aries ; the disk crossed by a broad, irregular, bright ochreous band not reaching the costal 
or inner margins, enclosing three black ocelli with white pupils, the two upper ones confluent 
and placed upon the radial interspaces, the third placed upon the first median interspace ; 
