EREBIA. 
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19. — E. Lappona, Esp. 108, 3 ; Tlmb. Diss. Ins. Suec. ii. p. 37, 
t. 5, 6, 7. 
Manto, Fab. E. S. 231 (1793) ; Hiib. T. 45, 107-8, 512- 
14 ; 0. i. 1, 296 ; Godt. ii. 17, 7, 8 ; Err. 85, 1, 2 ; 
Wallengr. Kbop. Scand. p. 57. (Manto, Esp. alia est 
Erehia. 
Castoe, Esp. 67, 2 ; Scbn. Syst. B. p. 108. 
Expands from 1-35 to 1'70 in. Dull brown, slightly bronze 
in some lights. Fore wings with a broad dull fulvous band, not 
reaching for more than half the length of the bind margin, and 
containing a row of four or five black spots of nearly equal size ; 
bind wings with a submarginal row of three or four black spots 
in very inconspicuous fulvous rings. Under side : Fore wings 
fulvous, the costa and bind margin grey ; the black spots described 
above are seen again beneath, but are smaller. Hind wings grey, 
with the slightest tinge of violet, speckled minutely with brown, 
and crossed by two wavy dark brown lines, one near the base and 
the other across the centre of the wing ; between the central line 
and the bind margin is a row of four black dots. PI. LXII., 2. 
Times of Appearance. — July and August. 
Habitat. — The higher Alps of Switzerland and the Pyrenees, 
always on the verge of the snow-line. Mountains in Scandinavia, 
Lapland, and the Altai. A local species in Switzerland on account 
of the great altitude necessary for its existence, but common where 
it occurs. 
VARIETY. 
Pollux, Esp. 67, 3. — An aberrant form in which the bind 
wings are not banded beneath. 
20. — E. Tyndarus, Esp. 67, 1 (1781) ; 0. i. 1, 299 ; Err. 80, 1, 
2 ; H.-G. 969-974. 
Cassioides, Esp. 103, 2, 2. — Neleus, Err. 80, 3, 4. 
Herse, Bkh. i. 94. 
Cleo, Hub. 209-12 ; Godt. ii. 17, 5, 6. 
Dromus, Fab. E. S. 224 (1793). 
Expands from 1-16 to 1-40 in. Wings dull brown, shot with 
greenish bronze. Fore wings with an indistinct dull fulvous 
