ARGYNNIS II. 



Mr. Thomas E. Bean, writing from Laggan, IStli September, 1886, says : " As to 

 Lais, I can only speak of this region and McLean, 600 miles east of this. Here 

 Luis appears not to fly at all. At McLean, it is tlie single common species of the 

 larger Argynnis. It appeared quite freely along the railroad and about the sta- 

 tion buildings. But its native haunts I found to be among the openings of the 

 little groves of poplar and willow. I have the idea from the localities Captain 

 Geddes gives that he took his specimens chiefly on the Red Deer River, and that 

 is far to the west and north of McLean. Also he called it rai'e, from which I 

 should consider that he was collecting away from its metropolis. I think that 

 may be in the region about McLean." 



