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are found in Red Butte Canon, Utah, and that meadii is a variety 

 well deserving a name. My opinion is based more upon habits 

 of the insects than upon the differences in size or color. Meadii 

 was found nearer the bottom of valley and often resting on flowers, 

 was easily taken, could even be overtaken and captured when in 

 flight, while nevadensis is wary, seldom alighting, and is much 

 swifter of wing. It is also found at greater altitude — even on 

 some of the lower peaks about 8000 feet, while all the meadii 

 were taken below 6000 feet. 



In his descriptions, Mr. W. H. Edwards gives expanse of male 

 nevadensis and meadii both as 2. 2 inches. I have specimens of 

 nevadensis taken in Utah bearing the name in Mr. Edwards' own 

 handwriting, and specimens of meadii from Utah bearing Dr. 

 Henry Skinner's handwriting. I have been able to examine a 

 number of specimens from Nevada labeled m.eadii, and all these 

 can be matched from the meadii in my own collection. Neva- 

 densis I have never seen, unless it be from Utah. 



There are other tangles, however, to be unraveled in regard 

 to this genus and a few names to be relegated to the synonymy. 

 Two other species or varieties of Argynnids have been taken in 

 Utah which do not correspond to any of the now described spe- 

 cies or varieties, and which in my humble view of the case are 

 more deserving of cognomens than some which bear several 

 appellations, but whose namers cannot identify the offspring of 

 their own pens. 



As a convenient escape from the serious inability to identify 

 species in this genus, collectors might arrange all representatives 

 of this group in a large cabinet and say that the result is a single 

 species, representing extreme variations due to geographical 

 distribution, hybridism, dimorphism, melanism, cold, etc. ad 

 infinitum. A large collection of this kind would furnish an in- 

 disputable evidence of the theory of evolution with the tale 

 omitted. 



Our next collecting ground was near Ogden, Utah, where an 

 entomological paradise was discovered. A small valley a way up 

 in the mountains only a few acres in extent, but watered by a 

 mountain stream, having an abundance of flowers everywhere, 

 protected from the winds by the surrounding mountains and with 

 plenty of sunshine from 9 a. m. to 4 p. m Insects fairly swarmed. 



