Yellow-banded Ringlet

E. flavofasciata Heyne (36 b). This interesting Erebia has only lately been discovered. Lieutenant-Colonel von Nolte obtained the first specimens in July 1893 in the Alps of Tessin in the Campolungo-Pass near Fusio. Later the species has also been found, in a but slightly different form, at Pontresina in the upper Engadine. In shape and size like cassiope, but nearer melampus in pattern. Ground-colour dark brown, as in most Erebias, the female being distinctly paler. The narrow russet-brown distal band of the forewing is separated by the veins into 5—6 rounded or ovate spots which bear small black dots; the spots in cellules 4 and 5 are generally somewhat elongate and bear a stronger black dot than the others. The hindwing above bears before the outer margin 4 russet-yellow rounded spots with black dots. In the female these spots are larger and have stronger black dots. The underside of the forewing greyish brown, the more yellow-brown distal band not separated into spots as above but continuous, also somewhat broader. The black dots contrast sharply. The central area has a feebly red-brown tint which gradually fades away proximally. The hindwing beneath is brownish grey; there is, before the outer margin and parallel with the same, a rather large straw-yellow band, which extends from the costal margin to near the anal angle. …