ARGYNNIS IV. 



Under side red-brown at base, the upper outer part of cell and extra-discal 

 area to margin jellowish ; silver as in male. 



Secondaries buff, mottled with ferruginous-brown, the band narrow, buff, the 

 spots large, well silvered. 



This is the type of Coronls, Behr, but there is a great variation in the species 

 in the coloration of under side. Examples from Gilroy, California, where Co- 

 ronis seems to be abundant, are of the type form. From Mt. Shasta, the males 

 are lighter, rather cinnamon color, the females a pale brown, or often fawn 

 color over secondaries and apical area of primaries. Examples from Washing- 

 ton Territory, taken by Mr. Morrison, are nearly like those from Shasta ; sev- 

 eral from Mt. Judith, Montana, are almost same ; so a male from the North- 

 west Territory, taken by Captain Gamble Geddes. A male from Nevada, taken 

 by Morrison, has the under side decidedly yellow, the mottling pale gray, while 

 a male from Utah, sent me by Mr. B. Neumoegen, has almost no mottling, but is 

 nearly clear yellow over secondaries and all of primaries, except just at base, 

 where the red is greatly diluted. 



The species has a very extended distribution, ranging from Kern County, Cal- 

 ifornia, to Washington Territory ; from Utah to Montana and the Northwest Ter- 

 ritory (Belly Eiver and Crow's Nest). I have not seen it from southern Cali- 

 fornia, below Kern County, nor from Colorado. 



Dr. Behr described Coronls in the paper before referred to as " No. 2," in a 

 series of descriptions of the Californian Argynnides, not being then (1862) able 

 to say whether or no the species had been described elsewhere. He says it is 

 very similar to CaUij)J)e Boisduval, "but differs by the upper side being colored 

 in tlie usual way of the genus, and not showing the pale lunulas and spots of the 

 disk like CalVppe, which resembles in this respect more an Euptoieta than a true 

 Argynnis ; " and in his Latin description, he says of the under side of seconda- 

 ries, " posticJB subtus fuscse usque ad fasciam macularem intermediam partim 

 dilutiores." Dr. Behr, about that date, sent me a sheet of colored figures of 

 eight of the species described by him, and by this I am able to fix the type. 

 In the paper in Proc. Ent. Soc, Phil., 1864, referred to, I gave an abstract 

 of Dr. Behr's paper, and by his consent the name Coronls was applied to the 

 "No. 2." 



Dr. Boisduval described Juha in 1869 ; and added, "• This species has so close 

 a connection with CnUlpj^e that it may be but a local variety. The fore wings 

 above are of a vivid fulvous in both sexes, while in tlie male CaUlppe they are of 

 a pale blackish-fulvous. The under side does not offer notable differences. Mr. 

 Lorquin, who has taken a number of examples of Juha, considers it a distinct 

 species." In Boisduval's Latin description of Juha, he says, " posticse subtus 



