Dewy Ringlet

E. lappona Esp. (= manto Frr., zilia Bkh.) (37 i). Upperside of both wings black-brown, somewhat glossy, the ground-colour of the female lighter, more grey-brown. The forewing with a rather broad russet brown band which does not reach the hindmargin and bears 4 black ocelli without pupils, the 2 upper ones standing close together and being somewhat shifted proximad. The band is not always equally distinct, varying in several directions. The hindwing has 3 - 4 black ocelli in russet -brown rings or is entirely unicolorous without markings. The forewing beneath with the central area russet -brown, the costal and distal margins being dusted with white-grey or bluish white, and the hindmargin black-brown. The ocelli as above, but mostly placed in russet -yellow rings. The hindwing beneath whitish or bluish grey with a median band which is bordered both proximally and distally by a thin brown dentate line. In the female this median band is more or less dusted with brown, the dentate lines being darker and broader and the band therefore more prominent than in the male. Before the distal margin there are 2 or 3 black dots which are sometimes absent. Head, thorax and abdomen black, the last ashy grey beneath. Antenna brown above, grey beneath, with yellow club. In the Pyrenees, Apennines, Alps and Carpathians, mostly only at considerable altitudes. — In ab. pollux Esp. …