434 [November 



Ursula lias much less of the metallic shade than the male, and is some- 

 times quite black. 



In these weeks I saw few Sphingidfe, though I do not doubt they 

 are abundant in many species. Both in June and August I found the 

 larvae of *S'. Ilt/lxus in every stage of growth, on the pawpaw. I also 

 found that of Jaglandis. D. lineata was seen flying about the flowers 

 of the iron weed in company with the butterflies. The larvae of cin- 

 (/ulafa, which feeds on the sweet potato, is well known there, and of 

 Carolina and b-maculata. 



I did not collect in other orders, but saw enough to warrant the be- 

 lief that the Kanawha is as rich in most of them as in Lepidoptera. 



Notes on the ARGYNNIDES of California. 

 BY W. H. EDWARDS. 



On 21st April, 1862, Dr. Behr read before the Lyceum of Natural 

 History of San Francisco, a paper on the Argynnides of California, 

 which was published in the Journal of the Lyceum. In this paper 

 was given a short diagnosis of each species then known, specified by 

 numbers, as the author was uncertain, not having access to books of 

 reference, which might have been before described. In a subsequent 

 paper, read before the Lyceum in 1863, Dr. Behr gives names to three 

 of these species, leaving No. 2 still unnamed. In one instance he 

 seemed to me to have re-named an old species, viz : A.'ifarte, of Double- 

 day (No. 4) instead of the species No. 5, as I was enabled to verify 

 from comparing marked specimens sent me with Doubleday's figure. 

 As these papers are little known to our lepidopterists, at the request of 

 Dr. Behr, I have made an abstract of them, giving his descriptions to 

 the new species and name to No. 2. 



No. 1. Argynnis CALiPPii;, Boisduval: "the only Argynnis that 

 is found near San Francisco, and it seems pretty generally distributed 

 throuohout the State." 



