100 NTMPHALID.E. 
Erebia saxicola. 
Erebia saxicola, Obertluir, Etud. d'Entom. ii. p. 32, pi. iv. fig. 1 (1876). 
" L'Erehia saxicola a les ailes un peu arrondies, bruu tres-fonce on dessus, avec la partie mddiane 
de I'aile superieure marquee d'unetache plus foncee et veloutee, et une double pupille blanche 
placee dans una macule roude, tres-noire, situee vers la sommet de I'aile. En dessous, 
VErehia saxicola a I'aile superieure largemeut lavee de fauve-carmine avec la cote et le bord 
esterne gris brun. La tacbe orbiculaire noire du dessus se reproduit en dessous. Eile est de 
meme pupillee de deux points blancs. L'aile inferieure est d'un brun claire un peu jaunatre, 
marquee d'une quautitc de petits traits bruns. Un petit point noiratre se trouve entre deux 
nervures, pres de Tangle anal, et une legere e'claircie se dctache sur la teinte du fond, qu'elle 
traverse en une bande parallele au bord extorieur. Les antennes sent tres-finement annelees 
de noir et de blanc. 
" L'Erebia saxicola a un aspect assez grele, I'abdomen mince et court, les ailes d'une texture peu 
epaisse ; elle forme un groupe un peu a part dans le genre Erehia." (Oherthiir, 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, d .) 
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 nervure, and one from middle of abdominal margin to outer margin ; there is 
a submarginal series of white dots ; the outer margin and centres of the wing are also dashed 
with white. 
Expanse 58 miUim. 
Nearly allied to E. saxicola, Oberth., but the white pupils of apical ocellus 
are placed more directly one under the other ; the antennae are pale brown, 
and the clubs are black beneath. On the under surface the colour of 
primaries is diflferent, and there is an additional ocellus towards outer angle ; 
the markings are more distinctly defined on the secondaries. 
The specimen of E. (C.) delavayi from Yunnan, figui'ed by M. Oberthiir, is 
rather larger than my specimens, but it does not present any other differences 
of importance. 
