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secondaries with throe whito poiuts on the median and radial interspaces, only the first (on 
the first median interspace) distinct and snow-white : thorax fuliginons hrown, ahdomen 
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. Exp inse of wings, 2 inches 1 line. — Kuramat- 
sunai, Shirilwtsu, Hokkaido, 2nd week in August {coll. M. Featon).'" (Butler, I. c.) 
Var. alcmena. (Plate IX. fig. 10, cJ.) "Species Erehia sedal-ovii, Ev., proxima, sed alis anticis 
supra fascia fulva introrsum recurvata, fimbria latiore ; subtus anticis cerasino-fulvis, apicc, 
costa et area interna griseo raixtis, posticis grisco-fuscis, pictura distinctissima, limbo magno- 
pere dentate. <S $ 22-23 mm. In regione Amdo dicta, in montibus Dsehaehar reperta." 
{Gr. GrshimaUo, I. c.) 
E. niphonica, Jans., scopan'a, Butl., and alcmena, Gr. Grsh., are certainly 
nothing more than local races of the Siberian sedakovii. The form alcmena 
occurs ])lentifiilly at Ta-chien-lu and How-kow ; the Chinese examples, how- 
ever, differ 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 c? .) 
Erehia herse, Gr. Grshimailo, Horas Ross. 1891, p. 457. 
" Alis (S supra uigris, limbo anticarum, sa3pe renam transversam superante, lato, eerasino-fulvo, 
maculis nigris ; apice permagna, albo-pupillata, in cellula 2' parva, nonnumquam deficicnte, 
notato. Fimbria lutea, in nervis nigro-fusco interrupta. Subtus disco anticarum eerasino- 
fulvo, basin versus obscuriore, late nigro-fusco cireumdato, apice pallidiore, grisescenti mixto 
et teniiiter nigro-fusco marmorato ; macula ocellari fulvo circumdata ; posticis plus minusve 
nnicoloribus nigro-fuscis et nigro marmoratis, maculis parvis, seepe vix conspicuis, sordide 
griseis notatis. 
" Alis 2 supra et subtus pallidioribus maculis majoribus, limbo fulvo anticarum cum area fulva 
celluloe media? sajpe confluente. 
" Esp. c? 2 2:3-2-4 mm." 
M. Grum Grshimailo says that this species, Avhich is allied to Erehia 
kalinda, Moore, was discovered by himself in the mountains of Sinin. I liave 
specimens fi-om 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 tln-ee 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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