124 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. (March, ’08 
Further Notes on Alberta Lepidoptera. 
By F. H. Wottey Dop, Millarville, Alberta, Canada. 
Argynnis monticola Behr. ? 
I have only a single Banff male that could possibly be as- 
sociated with this name, and cannot find by what authority I 
so listed it, as I do not think the specimen has ever been sent 
away for a name. I much regret that Dr. Skinner records the 
species from Banff on my authority. Since publishing my list 
of butterfies in t901 I have paid no attention to this specimen 
or its associates until now, though I had ample opportunity of 
procuring a long series of rhodope from British Columbia, | 
where it is common, had I so desired. As it is I have only four 
males, one from Vancouver, two from the Island, and the 
fourth from Kaslo. The three coast specimens are much alike, 
agree with Dr. Holland’s description and, allowing for sexual 
differences, with his figures. The color of secondaries beneath 
is very dark, the spots yellowish or slightly silvered only, ex- 
cept the marginal row which are distinctly silvered. The Kaslo 
specimen is slightly smaller, paler in ground color as well as in 
shading above, has paler secondaries beneath, with no trace of 
silver on any of the spots, and those on the margin are slightly 
larger than in the coast specimens. It agrees in these details 
with Holland’s figure (underside) and description of monticola 
except in having more of a rusty red and léss of a purplish 
shading on secondaries. Such slight material forms unstable 
ground for conjecture, especially as there are not names to fit 
both forms in the B. C. lists, but the Banff and Kaslo specimens 
are alike, and certainly suggest a distinct species from the 
rhodope so common in coast collections. Under rhodope in the 
Kootenai lists Dr. Dyar mentions that Mr. Cockle had the 
species standing as monticola. 
A. halcyone Edw. 
I thus listed the species on the authority of Dr. Skinner, who 
has specimens from me and enters the record in Supplement No. 
1 to his Catalogue. I have now under examination, 12 ¢ and 
392. The Qsex, which I had been unable to compare when 
writing my former notes, fits Mr. Edward’s figure to a 
