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Under side of primaries faded fulvous, brownish over basal part of 

 cell j small patches of orange-ferruginous in the sub-costal interspaces ; 

 the markings repeated, reduced, pale ; secondaries orange-ferruginous' 

 deepest next base ; a marginal black line, and within and parallel a heavier 

 one ; next this on each interspace is a small yellowish patch which crosses 

 the inner line nearly or quite to margin, and on basal side are a few black 

 scales, which, in the two or three posterior interspaces, take crescent 

 shape ; the round spots repeated ; close above these is a narrow trans- 

 verse band of connected yellow-white crescents, not well defined, each 

 with scattered black scales at top ; across the disk a broad angular band 

 of yellow-white, edged on both sides rather heavily by black ; this may 

 be considered as a chain of spots, as the separating nervules are black, and 

 the one in the cell is prolonged nearly to the yellow band, and cut almost 

 in two by the black edging of the arc of cell ; the deep orange space 

 beyond this discovers no spot except a small whitish triangle in cell, which 

 is without black edging ; at the base whitish patches at the origin of the 

 interspaces and cell, sprinkled with black, the posterior ones edged black 

 without. The mesial band has something of a margaritaceous sheen, but it 

 is very slight and dull. Body red-brown above, beneath the abdomen is 

 grey-yellow ; legs red ; palpi have long red frontal hairs, among which 

 are a few black ; antenme fuscous above, red below ; club black, tip 

 ferruginous. 



The female I have not seen, but Mr. Bean tells me that is essentially 

 like the male. 



Described from a single male taken with others of both sexes by Mr. 

 Thos. E. Bean, at Laggan, Alberta. He says : " It is strictly alpine, and 

 the rarest butterfly regularly found here. It flies in a part of the district 

 which Alberta frequents, but at the highest parts of that district almost 

 altogether, and it differs entirely in its habits from Alberta. The sexes 

 are alike, but the female is moderately larger than the male. It is the 

 most difficult butterfly I have found to capture. The last week in July seems 

 to be the time of flight." There is no other American species with which 

 to compare Victoria It is as large as the Laggan Eiirynome, but has 

 the peculiar mesial band (under hind wing) of the Chariclea group, though 

 with a difference, both edges being more regular, and the colour white. 

 That two new species of Argynnis should have been discovered by the 

 indefatigable naturalist at Laggan is noteworthy. Doubtless many more 

 remain to reward the labours of other zealous workers in the vast unex- 

 plored regions of British America. 



