Water ringlet

E pronoe Esp. (= arachne Hbn.) (37 c). Dark black -brown, with a red -brown band which is anteriorly broader and posteriorly narrower and bears costally 2 white-centred ocelli and towards the hindmargin an additional smaller one. The band of the hindwing consists of 3 rounded russet-brown spots with black eye-dots which have occasionally white pupils. Underside of the forewing sombre red-brown the band lighter and distinctly contrasting; the distal margin and apex dusted with bluish grey. The hindwing beneath bluish- or ashy- grey with black -brown dusting; the centre traversed by a curved, posteriorly broadly dentate, almost uniformly brown band which sharply borders the distal area. In the latter there are one or two black blind ocelli. The female is much lighter above and beneath, with the markings more prominent than in the male, the ocelli being larger and the base and submarginal band of the hindwing beneath light white-grey, the brown middle hand contrasting sharply. Distributed over the whole Alps, occurring also in the Apennines, Pyrenees, Carpathian Mts., South and South-West Russia and the southern slopes of the Caucasus. …