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soidal spots, which join on the 1st median nervule, and have 

 their other extremities resting on the submedian and 2d me- 

 dian nervule the inner spot with distinct black scales near 

 the submedian. Beneath brown, blackish over the discoida 

 stigma, with obscure yellow shades exterior to it as the only 

 markings. Abdomen above, unicolorous with the wings, with 

 yellowish scales laterally. Thorax beneath and abdomen 

 contiguous, brown with some longer clay-colored hairs. Palpi 

 clothed with bristling yellow scales, from which the tip of the 

 last joint barely projects. 



Female : primaries with dull yellow scales and hairs, more 

 numerous on the inner half of the interior margin, and nearly 

 absent from the outer margin ; two yellow spots between the 

 median nervules the outer one scarcely more than a spot, the 

 inner subquadrangular ; no anteapical spots, but in their place 

 some clustering yellow scales. Beneath, dark brown, the pri- 

 maries reddish-brown basally, and the secondaries of the same 

 shade throughout except toward their inner margin. The two 

 spots of the upper surface of the primaries are reproduced 

 beneath somewhat more obscurely. Thorax and front of head 

 yellowish scaled ; palpi with black scales above, and beneath 

 with some clay-colored scales. 



Expanse of wings, 1.28 inch ; length of body, .62 inch. 



The species is allied to P. Metacomet ; the geminate charac- 

 ter of its discoidal stigma is better defined ; its fringes are. 

 darker ; its median spots are yellow instead of whitish ; it is 

 without the anteapical spots, and lacks the band of pale spots 

 on the secondaries beneath ; the lower side of the abdomen 

 is without the conspicuous mesial line of pale scales of 

 P. Metacomet. 



Hob., etc. Mendocino, California. 1 <$ and 1 ? in the col- 

 lection of W. H. Edwards. 



The references of these two species to the "ZSlTi Rep. N. Y. 

 State Mus. N. H., made on pages 53 and 62 of Edwards' 

 Catalogue of Diurnal Lepidoptera, require correction for 

 the reason stated on page 70. 



