ARGYNNIS TEHACHAPINA, VAR. NOV. 
Dr. John Comstock 
During the summer of 1918 I made some extensive collections 
of Lepidoptera in the Tehachapi Mountains of Kern County, Cal- 
ifornia. Most of the time was spent in the lower canons of the 
Range at an altitude of 5000 to 6000 feet, but three ascents were 
made of the peaks. The highest of these is 7994 feet, and is 
reached with difficulty through a rough brushgrown country. It 
is heavily timbered on its upper few hundred feet. 
On July 15th I noted some six or seven small Argynnids play- 
ing about the rocks at the extreme tip of this peak. After con- 
siderable difficulty four of them were captured. They turned out 
to be a very distinct form from any other member of the genus 
found in the same locality. I am convinced, after a considerable 
study of the specimens, and of others closely related, that it is a 
race deserving of a separate name. It may be described as fol- 
lows : 
Argynnis montivaga, var. tehachapina, N. var. 
Male: expanse ljHs to 1^4 inches 41 to 44.5 millimeters. 
Upper side; Primaries: Uniform yellow-brown. Nervules 
widely margined with black. Fringes cream between nervules, 
black at base of nervules. Marginal band, two fine lines nearly 
fused into a single wide band, and completely fused at nervules. 
Internal to these a submarginal row of seven or eight oval brown- 
ish-yellow spots bordered internally by triangular black spots 
placed medially between each nervule, the anterior two indistinct. 
A limbal row of six circular black spots. A wide wavy extra- 
discal band of black, concave outward in 3rd median interspace, 
concave inward in 4th and 5th median interspaces. An inverted 
P at outer edge of disc ; internal thereto an angular black line ; 
subdiscally a black irregular oval with brownish centre. The 
base, delicately shaded with blackish scales. 
Upper side secondaries: Ground color same as primaries. No 
shading on nervules except along base of upper discoeellular. 
Marginal lines distinctly double ; submarginal oval spots only 
complete on anterior part ; open as anal angle is approached. The 
black triangular submarginal spots irregular, the anterior one 
tending to be quadrate, the next five more uniform, the seventh 
indistinct. The limbal row of black dots very irregular, the one 
between upper and lower radial nervules very large, the next 
smaller, and the third minute, 4th and 5th distinct. The sub- 
discal band of primaries is continued on secondaries not as a 
band, but as a series of five elongate dashes, showing very little 
tendency to connect and form a line as in other members of the 
group. At outer edge of disc a black quadrate spot, connected by 
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