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Common Alpine
Butterfly.--The wings are dark brown on the upper side, with four or five black ocelli, pupiled with white and broadly surrounded by red near the outer margin of the fore wings, and with three or four similar ocelli located on the upper side of the hind wings. The spots on the upper side reappear on the under side, and in addition the hind wings are covered by a broad curved median blackish band.
Early Stages.--These have been carefully described by Edwards in "The Butterflies of North America," vol. iii, and by H. H. Lyman in the "Canadian Entomologist," vol. xxviii, p. 274. The caterpillar feeds on grasses.
The species ranges from New Mexico (at high elevations) northward to Alaska. It is common on the mountains of British Columbia.