Secondaries and fringes bright yellow, immaculate, with a distinct broad black 
marginal band from costa to anal angle. Beneath, primaries, bright yellow, slightly 
dusted with brown grains along costa. A broad black transverse marginal band 
covering nearly one-third of the wing. Secondaries bright yellow, slightly dusted 
with brown along costa. The same broad black marginal band as on upper surface. 
A small black discal spot. 
Expanse of wings, 20 mm. Length of body, 8 mm. 
Habitat—Ft. Huachuca, Arizona (Morrison). Type, ¢. Coll., 
B. Neumcegen. 
The only representative of its tribe with falcate wings so far known, 
nearing otherwise in appearance A. flava. 
The species is autoptically unknown to me, and the above is Mr. 
Neumcegen’s original description. The wing form is so unlike the other 
species, as to suggest a doubt of the generic reference. 
P. aurea Grt. Bull. Surv., 5, 205; Can. Ent., 14, 19, 1882. 
** §' smaller than #. fava. Fore wings dark blackish brown, darker from thé 
arcuate single t. a. line over the anterior half of the median space. Reniform pale, 
whitish, spherical, standing out, the only prominent feature of the dark primaries, 
repeated beneath, fringes concolorous. The wing is palest about the reniform and 
over subterminal space. Hind wings orange yellow with broad even black costal 
terminal border ; beneath as above. Body parts blackish. ‘This species is remark- 
able for the similarity between the upper and lower surfaces of the wings. 
Hatbitat—Southern Texas, Prof. J. A. Lintner.” 
*‘Very different from flava, by the black costal border of the orange 
secondaries and the narrower and more even hind border.” 
The above is Mr. Grote’s original description. I have seen nothing 
to accord with it thus far. It is also recorded from Arizona. 
P. flava Grt, Trans. Am. Ent. Soc., 1874, v. 5, p. 91, /Zadena ; Bull. Surv. 4, 
178, Pseudanarta, 
crocea Hy. Edw. Pr. Cal. Ac. Sci., 1875, v. 6, p. 133, Pseudanarta ; Grt. 
Bull. Surv., v. 6, p. 265, pr. var.; Can. Ent., 12, 215, 1880, pr. var. 
Head, thorax and primaries blackish fuscous. Patagiz black margined and 
white tipped. Collar also pale tipped. Primaries with a brown suffusion through 
median space. Basal half line geminate, distinct. A short black dash at base and 
another on internal margin—variably defined and sometimes wanting. T. a. line 
distinctly geminate, included space bluish white; the line outwardly curved, and 
angulated, most distinctly in the sub-median interspace. T. p. line geminate out-' 
wardly curved over reniform then parallel with outer margin and somewhat sinuate 
to the internal margin. The inner line distinctly black, included space bluish white. 
Beyond this line is a bluish white shade extending to thes. t. line, and through the 
centre of which is a more or less distinct brownish shade most marked on costa. S. t. 
line pale irregular, more or less marked with blackish preceding spots. A narrow 
more or less distinct black line through sub-median interspace connects the median 
lines, which are very variable distances apart. Orbicular concolorous, oblique, nar- 
rowly white ringed somewhat varying in shape. Reniform upright elongate, con- 
stricted centrally, narrowly white ringed, also variable in shape. 
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