Marbled ringlet  The marbled ringlet ("Erebia montana") is a member of the subfamily Satyrinae of the family Nymphalidae. This species is present in Austria, France, Italy, Liechtenstein and Switzerland. These high-mountain butterflies can be found on warm, rocky slopes, woodland clearings and flower-rich grasslands in the Alps from the Ligurian Alps and the French Alps to the Tyrol and the Dolomites, the Apuan Alps and in the northern and middle Apennines, at an elevation of above sea level. "Erebia montana" has a wingspan of . These small dark brown butterflies show a broad bright orange postdiscal band with two oval white pupils at the apex of the forewings and one or two others not very visible, as well as a series of three or four ocelli on the upperside of the hindwings. The underside of the forewings is red brown with two ocelli at the apex and a wavy edge, while the underside of the hindwings is marbled chestnut brown (hence the common name) with well marked whitish veins. "E goante" Esp (= "scaea" Hbn.) (37 c). Upperside marked as in "nerine", but the ocelli as rule somewhat smaller and the hindwing of the female more distinctly dentate. The band of the forewing narrows posteriorly, being bright russet in the male and light russet-yellow in the female. There are 2 united, white centred, black ocelli near the apex of the forewing, and above them there is sometimes a black ocelliform dot which has but rarely a pupil. Towards the hindmargin there is a further small ocellus, which has occasionally a white centre. In the somewhat narrower distal band of the liindwing there are 3 rarely 4, white-centred black ocelli. The underside of the forewing russet-brown, lighter in the female, with black-brown margin, the apex being dusted with white-grey. Underside of the hindwing black-brown, marmorated with white-grey; the strongly dentate central band is externally bordered by a band-like line which consists of an accumulation of white scales and is here and there interrupted; towards the distal margin there are 3-4 white-centred black eye-dots.