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and sometimes a brown blotch obliterates all markings except the 

 straw-colored spots. 



125. Argynnis Behrensi. 



Plate XIV; Figures 125, a, Males, Mendocino County, 

 Cal., June, 1892; Author. 

 Behrensi is a very local species, and if you want to find it you 

 must visit the hilltops and hog-back ridges of Mendocino County, 

 in July. It was discovered by Mr. James Behrens, a San Fran- 

 cisco collector, who accidentally ran upon it, and it was named 

 for him by Mr. Edwards, to whom it was submitted. I have al- 

 ways found it very scarce in its local habitat, and never succeeded 

 in getting but few specimens in any one season. The Plate illus- 

 trates the species so well that it is not necessary to add words of 

 description. 



126. Argynnis Coronis. 



Plate XIV; Figures 126, b, c. 



Fig. 126, Male, Southern California, June, 1886; Author. 



b, Female, Mount Shasta, August 15, 1890; 



Author. 



c. Underside of Female, Tehachapi Mountains, 



July, 1889; Author. 

 Coronis is a very common and wide-spread species in Califor- 

 nia and adjacent countries ; in fact, it might be difficult to say 

 just where in all this region it is not to be found. But that is not 

 the worst of the matter ; it is inconstant, as perhaps so wide-spread 

 a species has a right to be, and, as Mr. Edwards once wrote me, 

 "for every degree of latitude it puts on a new face." But there 

 is one typical character which it carries everywhere, north and 

 south, east and west, and that character can be found on the under- 

 side of the hind wing ; the band. I mean the wide, sub-marginal 

 band of clear golden color, just inside the outer series of silver 

 lunules. Coronis is moreover one of the three species of the West 

 Coast that shows a little green on the underside of hind wing; 

 see 128; 129. 



127. Argynnis Callippe. 



Plate XIV; Figures 127, b, c. 



Fig. 127, Male, Southern California, June 25, 1886; 

 Author. 



