ARGYNNIS VIII. 



a graj' edge to the costa and around the apex ; the hind margins bordered by a 

 single line, as in the male, with no diffusion at the nervures : the markino-s of 

 both wings as in the male. 



Under side of primaries deeper fulvous about base ; otherwise as in the male 

 (Fig. 6). 



Something more than twenty years ago I came into possession of a strange 

 Argynnis, which I was told was North American, but beyond that could get no 

 information whatever. No one knew where it came from, but it was said to be 

 surely American. I had never seen anything like it, and believed it must be a 

 foreign species, but kept it in my collection, hoping one day to learn more 

 about it. This was the male figured on the Plate. In January last (1890), Mr. 

 H. K. Burrison, of Boston, Mass., sent me a few Argynnides for name, taken by 

 him, in 1889, in south California and Arizona, and among them was a female 

 exactly corresponding to the male spoken of. On asking where it came from, 

 Mr. Burrison replied as follows: "It was taken at Tehachipe, south California. 

 I stopped there only a few days, from July 4th to 8th, and this and another female 

 were found in a little valley about four miles from town, by a small stream. I 

 saw others, but caught only the two. If I remember rightly, the elevation was 

 about 4,800 feet. I was in haste to reach Arizona to meet by appointment the 

 friend with whom I traveled there, and did not have time to examine the tops 

 of the mountains about Tehachipe, so can say nothing as to the height at which 

 the species may be found." 



I myself have seen but the pair figured, but Mx\ Burrison reported to me the 

 points of the second female, which agree with those of the one sent me, and now 

 figured. All three examples are characterized by the peculiar yellow color on 

 upper side, by the absence of the outer marginal line, and of the usual marginal 

 and discal black spots. 



That so striking a species could have been unnoticed in a region supposed to 

 be thoroughly explored by lepidopterists, gives reason for the belief that many 

 species of Argynnis yet undiscovered exist within the United States and Canada. 



