84 LEPIDOPTERA OF NORTH AMERICA. 



2. P. phlaeas Linn. Syst. Nat. 793. Figured inmost European authors. 



Upper side of the primaries in both sexes shining fulvous, with 

 the upper and side edge blackish-brown, and eight large black 

 points. 



Secondaries blackish-brown, with a central arc and some deeper 

 points ; then a fulvous crenated band, sometimes surmounted by a 

 row of four or five blue points. 



Under side of the primaries grayish-ash, with fifteen small scat- 

 tered points, and a flexuous line. 



Larva, which feeds on Rumex, is green, pubescent, with a rosy 

 dorsal and marginal line, or sgmetimes pale green. 



Chrysalis grayish, with obscure points on the back. 



United States, Europe, Africa, &c. Expands over an inch. 



BOISD. 



3. P. hypophlaeas Boisd. Ann. Soc. Ent. 2me ser. X, 293. 



Closely resembles P. phleas, but is smaller, with the points more 

 distinct, the wings more rounded ; under side of the secondaries 

 white-ashy, with the yellow marginal band strongly marked. 



North of California and Northern United States. 



BOISD. 



4. P. thoe Boisd. et Lee. Figured in Guer. Reg. Anim. pi. 81. Boisd. 



et Lee. pi. 38, p. 125. 



Upper side of the male brownish, with a violet reflection and a 

 light blackish border ; three black points, of which two are in the 

 discoidal cellule. 



Secondaries have on the terminal edge an orange fulvous band, 

 crenated behind, and a blackish arc on the end of the discoidal 



cellule. 



Upper side of the primaries of the female fulvous, with a blackish 

 border, and some black discoidal points, of which two or three are 

 in the cellule, and the others disposed in a transverse line. That 

 of the secondaries brownish, with some scattered brownish points 

 disposed nearly as on the primaries, and a fulvous marginal band 

 as in the male, but paler. 



Under side in both sexes the same. Primaries fulvous, with 

 the posterior edge ashy, two or three sinuous rows of black points, 

 and four similar points between the base of the wing and the 

 internal row. 



