late; peduncles slender, naked: 
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Sierra region in general or else cosmopolitan forms and those found 
everywhere in the State. 
To the collector from the valley and coast regions of the State 
this region is a new world. Here he first comes in contact with 
large numbers of that family of Argynnide which makes the mount- 
ains seem so full of insect life. This is by far the best represented 
of any family in the mountains of this region, with reference both to 
numbers and to species. Vanessa californica slightly outnumbers 
it farther north, but is not seen in this locality. The genus Papilio 
is also better represented here than in the lower regions. The spe- 
cies of Thecla, Lyceena, Chrysophanus, Pieris and Colias are repre- 
sented here as well as in the valleys. Parnassius and Chionobas are 
of course mountain genera, seldom found at low altitudes. 
This short paper, with what has been done before by others, I 
hope will induce more collectors to explore the above district and 
try to clear up some of the difficult points. Very little has yet been 
done, but until this region is well explored our knowledge of what 
the Sierras contain will necessarily be limited.* 
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*Most of these butterflies were named for me by Mr. J. J. Rivers. 
A NEW RUMFORDIA FROM LOWER CALIFORNIA. 
With Plate xxiil. : 
BY T. S. BRANDEGEE. 
RUMFORDIA CONNATA. Perennial, herbaceous 1-2 m. high; 
stems clustered, much branched near the top, glandular-pubescent: 
leaves %4-1% dm. long, ovate, acuminate, serrate, decurrent on the 
petioles as a broad margin and connate into a cup often 1-2 cm. In 
depth, more or less filled by the hirsute pubescence; nodes as long 
or longer than the leaves: panicle compound: heads long-peduncu- 
heads 4-5 cm. broad; outer involu- | 
lobed, its segments nearly equalling the 
rays, two of them usually much broader than the others and 2- 
toothed at apex; inner conduplicate about YX the length of the out-— 
er, green and glandular on the back, acute, and three times the 
“length of the akene; receptacle convex, the paleae membranaceous,, 
obliquely obtuse, somewhat boat - shaped, loosely enclosing and 
twice longer than the akenes: rays 2, numerous 15-18 mm. long, 
cre foliaceous, deeply 5-8 
