14 LEPIDOPTERA OF NORTH AMERICA. 



the second straight, the third linear; antennas short, terminating- 

 in a straight, ovoid, elongated club. 



Body thick, hairy ; abdomen of the female provided with a pouch 

 or horny valve. Wings, parchment like, nerves prominent, not 

 dentated, and nearly destitute of scales on the under side and to- 

 wards the summit on the upper side. Secondaries have the abdo- 

 minal edge sloped, leaving the abdomen entirely free. 



Larva smooth, cylindroid, thick, with small tubercles, a little 

 hairy. The first ring provided with a furcate tentacle of the shape 

 of a Y. Head small, round. 



Chrysalis cylindrico-conical, powdered with a bluish efflores- 

 cence, enveloped between leaves in a light tissue of silk and sus- 

 tained by transverse threads. 



1. P. clarius Eversm. Bullet, de Moscou, XVI, 539, fig. 1. 



Primaries white, with two black streaks in the discoidal cellule ; 

 the extremity semitransparent, gray, divided by a row of white spots; 

 internal angle sometimes without spots and sometimes marked with 

 a small blackish spot. 



Secondaries white, with two small red ocelli ; anal angle with a 

 black arc, often obsolete in the males. 



Under side of the secondaries with two ocelli as above ; the 

 base usually with the impression of red obsolete spots ; the arc of 

 the anal angle black or red. Body blackish, with whitish hairs, 

 very short on the thorax ; palpi covered with yellow hairs. The 

 female has the anal arc distinct, reddish on the under side ; wings 

 divided above by a blackish marginal festooned line ; the horny 

 pouch of the under side of the abdomen, large, entirely white and 

 bordered with yellow hairs. 



Northern California. 



EVERSM AN. 



2. P. nomion Fisch. Fisch. Entomograph. de la Russie, II, pi. 6. Boisd. 



Icon. pi. 4, fig. 3. Godt. Dup. Suppl. pi. 43. Boisd. Spec. Gen. 

 pi. 2. Gray. Cat. Lep. Ins. Brit. Mus. fig. 316, 409, 410. 



Base of the wings black ; transverse sinuous ray of the extremity 

 well defined on all the wings ; two spots between the discoidal cel- 

 lule and this ray, on the primaries, marked with reddish ; the spot 

 on the middle of the internal edge has the middle of it reddish ; 



