EREBIA. 
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Time of Appearance. — July to September. 
Habitat. — Woods and plains in Central Europe, not ascending 
to any great elevation in the mountains. It is common in 
Switzerland, South and South-East Germany, North-East and 
Central France, Livonia, North-Eastern Turkey, the Caucasus, 
the Altai, North-East Siberia, and the Amur. Common but local 
in Britain, being confined to the north, its range extending from 
Yorkshire to the North of Scotland. 
Larva. — Light green, with a brownish or dark greenish dorsal 
stripe : lateral stripe Avhitish, bordered by dark brown ; head 
reddish brown. Feeds on various speeies of Poa in the autumn, 
and again after hybernation . 
variety. 
Leucotaenia, Stand. Cat. 26 ; Frr. 55, 3, 4. — A variety in 
which there is a whitish band in the centre of the hind wings 
beneath. 
Habitat. — The South of Switzerland, Dalmatia, &c. 
27. E. Ligea, Linn. Syst. Nat. x. 473 ; Faun. Suec. 239 ; Hilb. 
225-8; 0. i. 1, 283 ; Godt. ii. 13, 1, 2; Frr. 67. 
Alexis, Esp. 44, 1, 2, 54, 2. 
Expands from 1-60 to 1-90 in. Marginal fringes brown and 
Avhite ; hind margins slightly dentate. All the wings dark brown, 
with fulvous submarginal bands almost exactly like those in E. 
jEthiops. Under side ; Fore wings coloured as in the preceding, 
but the fulvous band is the same width throughout its length, and 
does not narrow towards the inner margin ; hind wings dark 
brown, with a submarginal row of four very conspicuous ocellated 
spots in fulvous rings ; internal to these and near the costa is a 
very strongly marked white dash, often extended so as to form an 
irregular and interrupted white band, and sometimes there is 
another less distinct white band near the base. PI. LX., 6. 
Times of Appearance.- — August and September. 
Habitat. — Central Europe, at a moderate elevation in the 
mountains, and in wooded plains ; also in Scandinavia and North 
Bussia, Bulgaria, the Caucasus, and Siberia. It is admitted by 
