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anal angle of secondaries with two small black marginal points, 

 one on each side of the tail. 



Upper side of the female brown, with the disk of the primaries 

 and the greater part of the secondaries fulvous, spotted with black. 



Under side of the primaries fulvous, the extremity ashy, with a 

 great number of ocellate black points. 



Under side of secondaries ashy, with smaller points and less dis- 

 tinct, a whitish band, terminal, sinuous within, deeper towards the 

 fringe, and marked on each side of the tail with a black point. 

 Distinguished from the allied species by the small tail. 



California. 



BOISD. 



11. P. amyntula Boisd. Ann. Soc. Ent. 2me ser. X, 294. 



Very similar to P. comyntas, of which it may be only a variety. 

 It differs from it in the male not having fulvous lunules on the 

 upper side, and in the under side of both sexes being more white, 

 with smaller points ; and finally, in having only the anal lunule 

 powdered with golden atoms. 



California. 



BOISD. 



12. P. exilis Boisd. Ann. Soc. Ent. 2me ser. X, 295. 



The smallest species known. 



Upper side clear brown ; secondaries paler, with a blackish 

 border. 



Under side of primaries very clear brown, with white interrupted 

 transverse striae, more or less distinct. 



Under side of secondaries white, with brown striae and a mar- 

 ginal row of seven black ocelli powdered with golden atoms. 



California. 



BOISD. 



13. P. antaegon Boisd. Ann. Soc. Ent. 2me se"r. iX, 295. P. acmon ? 



Westw. and Hewits. Gen. Diurn. Lep. pi. 76, fig. 1. 



Upper side beautiful violet blue, with a small blackish border 

 and white fringe ; inferiors with ante-marginal border fulvous, 

 resting on a series of black points. 



Under side ash-gray, with a great number of distinct and neat 

 black points. That of the secondaries has before the border a 

 fulvous interrupted band, resting on a row of black ocelli, pow- 



