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examples of both sexes in the Rocky Mountains on the Canadian 

 Paciric Railroad, in the Province of Alberta; from one of these, 

 a $ , Mr. W. H. Edwards described his Argynnis victoria in 

 "Can. Ent." vol. xxiii, p. 198. 



The figure of Doub.-He\v. represents the upper side of -appar- 

 ently the 9 , and has been a puzzle to Lepidopterists as to what 

 it could be. It comes nearer to the European Hecate and /no, 

 though exceeding them in size, than to any American species. 

 The rediscovery of this remarkable insect is of the greatest in- 

 terest. Mr. Bean, to whom I am indebted for my example, states 

 that it is very rare, the Summer being so short in the region in 

 which it occurs that some seasons it does not appear at all, there 

 not being time sufficient, save under certain favorable circum- 

 stances, between the two Winters for it to develop and go 

 through all the stages. 



The literature regarding astarte is meagre; there is no descrip- 

 tion in the " Gen. Diur. Lep." merely the figure. 



In " Proc. Ent. Soc. Phil." i, p. 221, W. H. Edwards con- 

 founds it with a form or species later described by myself as Ar- 

 gynnis argt 'in " Syn. Cat. Macrolep." p. 114, No. 210. 



In ' Proc. Ent. Soc. Phil." iii, p. 435, the same author in 



'Notes on the Argynnides of California" has "No. 4. Arg. 



astarte Doubleday. Egleis, Boisduval in lit. This species Dr. 



Behr subsequently called Montivago, a name which he transfers 



to the following: 



I have the example "No. 4" which Dr. Behr sent me long 

 since, with the types of all his Argynnidse published in the "Jour, 

 of the Lye. Nat. Hist, of San Francisco," which is the original 

 of the description of Argynnis arge above alluded to. 



In "Trans. Ent. Soc." London, 1889, part iv, pp. 535-575, is 

 " A Revision of the Genus Argynnis," by Henry J. Elwes, which 

 is the best thing by far yet published on the Argynnidae gener- 

 ally; the author states the type is in the British Museum, that it 

 was discovered many years ago in British Columbia, probably in 

 the Cascade Mountains, that it seems to have been overlooked 

 in both Strecker's and Edwards' Catalogues, probably because 

 the locality is incorrectly given in Kirby's as Jamaica; further, 

 that it is distinct from any North American specimens and most 

 nearly allied to Amphilochus. 



Everything pertaining to the Argynnides is of interest, from 



