Rohwer established the genus Argorytes in 1912 for the reception of Fox's curious, stocky, little southern Californian species Gorytes Coquillettii. In the course of the ensuing thirty-five years, no subsequent investigator has recognized or admitted the validity of Rohwer's distinctive genus. In all probability, however, this is due largely to the relative rarity of the component species. In the past decade I have seen or assembled a number of specimens of this interesting genus and present below a revision of Arigorytes.