124 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [March, 'oS 



Further Notes on Alberta Lepidoptera. 



BY F. H. WOLLEY DOD, Millarville, Alberta, Canada. 

 Argynnis monticola Behr. ? 



I have only a single Banff male that could possibly be as- 

 sociated with this name, and cannot find by what authority I 

 so listed it, as I do not think the specimen has ever been sent 

 away for a name. I much regret that Dr. Skinner records the 

 species from Banff on my authority. Since publishing my list 

 of butterfies in 1901 I have paid no attention to this specimen 

 or its associates until now, though I had ample opportunity of 

 procuring a long series of rhodvpc from British Columbia, 

 where it is common, had I so desired. As it is I have only four 

 males, one from Vancouver, two from the Island, and the 

 fourth from Kaslo. The three coast specimens are much alike, 

 agree with Dr. Holland's description and, allowing for sexual 

 differences, with his figures. The color of secondaries beneath 

 i? very dark, the spots yellowish or slightly silvered only, ex- 

 cept the marginal row which are distinctly silvered. The Kaslo 

 specimen is slightly smaller, paler in ground color as well as in 

 shading above, has paler secondaries beneath, with no trace of 

 silver on any of the spots, and those on the margin are slightly 

 larger than in the coast specimens. It agrees in these details 

 with Holland's figure (underside) and description of monticola 

 except in having more of a rusty red and less of a purplish 

 shading on secondaries. Such slight material forms unstable 

 ground for conjecture, especially as there are not names to fit 

 both forms in the B. C. lists, but the Banff and Kaslo specimens 

 are alike, and certainly suggest a distinct species from the 

 rhodope so common in coast collections. Under rhodope in the 

 Kootenai lists Dr. Dyar mentions that Mr. Cockle had the 

 species standing as monticola. 



A. halcyone Edw. 



I thus listed the species on the authority of Dr. Skinner, who 

 has specimens from me and enters the record in Supplement No. 

 i to his Catalogue. I have now under examination, 12 $ and 

 3 9 . The 9 sex, which I had been unable to compare when 

 writing my former notes, fits Mr. Edward's figure to a 



