244 
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5. — E. Mnestra, Hub. 540-3 (1802); Esp. 120, 3,4; 0. i. 1, 
264; Boisd. Ic. 35, 1-4; Blip. i. 34, 3, 4; Err. 19, 3; 
H. S. 96. 
Expands from 1-20 to 1*40 in. Fringes dark brown. All the 
wings brown. The male has a band of fulvous spots on the fore 
wings, and four fulvous spots on the hind wings. The female has 
a very broad fulvous band on the fore wings, less sharply defined 
on the basal than on the outer edge, and showing two small black 
dots at the part where it is closest to the apex ; the base of the 
wing is darker than the hind-marginal portion ; hind wings brown, 
darkest at Ihe base. Under side : Fore wings fulvous in the centre, 
the basal and hind-marginal portions dark brown ; hind wings dark 
brown, with four fulvous spots in the male, but not in the female. 
Times of Appearance. — July and August. PI. LVIIL, 6. 
Habitat. — Elevated meadows in most of the alpine regions of 
Central Europe. It is common but local in Switzerland. I have 
taken it on the Furka Pass in August ; it is to be taken in France 
in the departments of the Hautes — and Basses — Alps, in which 
localities seventeen species of Erehia are said to exist. (Girard, 
p. 229). 
Larva. — Unknown. 
6. — E. Pharte, Hiib. 491-4; Esp. 120, 4; 0. i. 1, 259; Boisd. 
Ic. 35, 7, 8 ; Hup. 1, 24, 1-2; Fit. 20, 3 ; H. S. 95. 
Expands from 1-20 to 1'40 in. All the wings brown. Fore 
wings with a band of five fulvous spots ; hind wings with four 
spots in the male, generally not well defined, and as a rule absent 
in the female. Under side : Fore wings with the fulvous band 
distinct ; hind wings with the row of fulvous spots in both sexes. 
PI. LVHI., 7. 
Times of Appearance. — July and August. 
Habitat. — The Alps of Switzerland, in elevated meadows ; 
also in the South-Eastern Departments of France, in the same 
localities as the last. 
