10 LEPIDOPTERA OF NORTH AMERICA. 



macular band composed of eight lunules. The secondaries have 

 six whitish crescents, marginal, and a large, red, bilobed anal spot, 

 placed a little obliquely and wider internally. 



Tail black, linear, whitish at the end. 



Under side of primaries, brownish, on which all the characters 

 of the upper side are visible. 



Under side of the secondaries also presents the same bands as 

 the opposite surface, but there is, besides, a red line placed on the 

 black band between the two principal white bands ; near the anal 

 angle, this line is bent, as in P. ajax, but instead of widening, as in 

 the latter to form two red lunules, it continues in the same width 

 on the disk ; this line is bordered with white, but only in the place 

 where it corresponds to the red spot above. Some grayish atoms 

 above the two last white crescents. 



Body blackish, with two whitish rays on the thorax ; abdomen 

 blackish, annulated with white above, grayish below. Antennae 

 blackish. Southern States. 



Larva unknown. 



P. sinon is easily distinguished from the neighboring species by 

 its greenish bands, the macular posterior band ; the red line on the 

 under side not forming a crescent and the body annulated with 

 white. 



Boisd. 



14. P. celadon Lucas. Guer. Rev. Zool. 1852, 130. 



A little smaller than P. sinon, with which it has been con- 

 founded by Cramer. Upper side of wings, black, with bands of a 

 clear green thus disposed ; the first, linear, common, running along 

 the abdominal edge of the secondaries, nearly to the red spot of 

 the anal angle ; the second, also common, descends a little lower 

 on the secondaries ; the third, very wide, principally in the secon- 

 daries, common, and sending out on them two prolongations, which 

 reach the costal edge; on the secondaries it does not extend beyond 

 the intermediary band ; the fourth, narrow, not passing the me- 

 dian nervure of the secondaries; the fifth, smaller than the fourth, 

 is placed beyond the summit of the discoidal cellule, and is divided 

 into three spots by the nervures, which are of a russety brown ; the 

 sixth, macular, forming, on the second, a range of spots, more or 

 less rounded, nearly marginal, but sinuous and not touching the 

 posterior edge of the primaries, as in P. sinon. Under side, like 



