120 LEPIDOPTERA OF NORTH AMERICA. 



11. P. peckii Kirhij. Faun. Bor. IV, 300. Figured in Kirby, Faun. Amer. 



13or. IV, pi. 4. 



Body brown, paler on the under side. Antennse rufous above ; 

 below the joints a white patch. Knob fusiform, hooked ; wings 

 above tawny brown, with an articulated angular band common to 

 both wings, of pale yellow. Primaries striped and streaked with 

 the same color near the base and in the costal area ; underneath, 

 the wings paler. Primaries have nearly the same marks as above; 

 on the secondaries, the angular band is surmounted by another 

 irregular spot, so as to form two contiguous spots, or rather one 

 large irregular didymous one. 



Canada. 



KiKBY. 



12. P. numitor Fab. E. S. Ill, 324. Figured in Hiibn. Zutr. f. 275. 



The smallesf of the family. Antennae black, rings white, ter- 

 minating in a small point. Body black above, white below ; upper 

 side of all the wings blackish, but glossed for the greatest extent, 

 with shining yellow ; under side of primaries blackish, with the 

 outer edge and summit yellowish ; under side of secondaries yel- 

 lowish, with the outer edge blackish. 



United States. 



GODAKT. 



13. P. vitellius Sm. Ahh. Figured in Sm. Abb. I, pi. 17. 



Head and thorax of males clothed with greenish, fulvous hairs; 

 club of antennae fulvous, stem brown ; primaries tawny above, with 

 slender black veins ; in the centre of the disk a large black oval 

 spot, the anterior part of which as well as the base within are 

 velvety, and the remainder silky. Outer margin broadly brown 

 and uninterrupted, although irregularly notched within ; two small 

 connected, transverse, fulvous spots near the tip, separating a part 

 of the dark border from the rest. Secondaries above darker tawny, 

 with black veins and a broad irregularly notched dusky border all 

 around the wings, broken near the anal angle by a longitudinal 

 streak of orange, running to the margin. Wings beneath pale 

 tawny ; base of primaries black, with brownish tips, preceded by 

 two small transverse patches of paler buff color, the ui)per one 

 farthest from the tip. Secondaries marked along the margins with 

 some slight dusky spots, indicating the dark border of the upper 



