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three black spots with white centres ; these spots are most clearly 
defined in the female ; two of them are near the apex. Under 
side : Fore wings fulvous ; costa and hind margins dark brown ; 
the two apical eyes are distinct. Hind wings dark blackish brown 
in the male, lighter in the female, the basal portion ' darkest ; 
there is a submarginal band of grey on which are several black 
spots, most distinct in the female, and outside this is the dark 
brown hind-marginal border. PL LXII., 4. 
Times of Appearance. — July and August. 
Habitat. ■ — ■ The Alps of Switzerland and the South-East of 
France ; also in the Pyrenees, It always occurs at a great 
elevation, having been taken as high as the Gornergrat, and above 
the Hospice of St. Bernard. 
Larva. — Unknown. 
varieties. 
a. Erynis (ab.), Esp. 121, 3. — Gorgone (var.), H. S. 175. — The 
ocelli are absent from all the wings. 
h. Triopes, Spr. Stett. Ent. Zeit. 1865, p. 248. — Has three 
white central black spots at the apex of the fore wing, instead 
of two. 
Habitat. — The Upper Engadine and the Tyrol. 
c. Gorgone, Boisd. Ic. 29, 5-8, 1, p. 150; H. S. 75, 76. — 
Larger than the type ; the male has the under side of the hind 
wings less raised ; the female has the nervures of the hind wings 
whitish. 
Habitat. — The Pyrenees, at a considerable elevation. 
22. — E. Goante, Esp. 116, 1; 0. i. 1, 293; Frr. 79, 1, 2; 
H. S. 77-9. 
Sc^A, Hiib. 253-4. 
Expands from 1-45 to 1‘60 in. Brown, with broad sub- 
marginal fulvous bands, very bright in the male, lighter in the 
female. Fore wings with two apical white-centred spots, and one 
or two smaller ones nearer the anal angle ; hind wings with three 
spots of equal size, and with bluish white centres. Under side : 
Fore wings fulvous, the portion corresponding to the fulvous band 
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