ARGYNNIS III. 



such an extent often that the fulvous color is nearly limited to the exti-a-discal 

 area of both wings ; the disk and costal margin of primaries sordid white, as are 

 portions of the interspaces on secondaries, especially those which correspond with 

 the second row of spots on under side ; the marginal borders broader than in 

 the male ; the inclosed spots small, sordid white. 



From Aliaska. 



All the examples of the present species known to me in collections have been 

 taken in one locality near Sitka, " upon some rising ground, covered with heath- 

 like plants, two miles from the town, in the middle of July." Of these, 5*5? 

 were taken by the late M. BischofF, and 1*25 by Mr. Bendel, of San Fran- 

 cisco. Except ohe pair of M. BischofF 's collecting, I have seen, or Mr. Henry 

 Edwards has examined and described to me, all these. Of the males, one only 

 is silvered and four are not ; of the females, four are silvered and two are not. 

 In both sexes there is much difference in the unsilvered examples as to the dis- 

 tinctness of the marginal and apical markings, and all, of both sexes, are much 

 obscured on the upper side. 



Mr. Crotch did not meet this species in British Columbia, though he found 

 several other Argynnides there in abundance. 



