90 LEPIDOPTERA OF NORTH AMERICA. 



behind on a grayish marginal band, crenate, more obscure than the 



ground color. 



California. 



Boisd. 



21. P. antiacis Boisd. Ann. Soo. Ent. 2me ser. X, 300. 



Upper side violet blue, with a slender black margin and whitish 

 fringe. 



Under side ash-gray, with the base greenish-blue ; a transverse 

 line of black points strongly ocellate with white, near the ex- 

 tremity, preceded on the primaries by a central lunule and on the 

 secondaries by a central lunule and two ocellate points. Female 

 blackish above, with the base more or less bluish. 



San Francisco. 



Boisd. 



22. P. dorcas Kirby. Faun. Bor. IV, 299. Figured in Kirby Faun. 



Bor. Amer. IV, pi. 4, fig. 1. 



Body black above, white below. Antennae black, with white 

 rings. Knob tipped with orange; wings brown, with a reddish 

 tint, underneath tawny ; primaries with an angular band, formed 

 by faint black spots ; behind these nearer the costa is a black bar, 

 above which are two more spots ; between the band and the pos- 

 terior margin are three more black spots, arranged transversely, 

 and above the base are three more black spots forming a triangle; 

 the secondaries have a slight sinus near the anal angle, the fringe 

 of which projects so as to assume the appearance of a short tail ; 

 across the disk runs an angular band formed of faint black spots, 

 above which is a crescent of the same color ; at the anal angle is 

 an orange-colored angular bar, or abbreviated band ; underneath, 

 these wings have several indistinct black dots, the three external 

 ones of which form an obtuse angle with the four internal ones. 



"[This species seems to be the American representation of P. 



phlceas, but its color is much less vivid." 



Canada. 



Kirby. 



23. P. lucia Kirby. Faun. Bor. IV, 299. Figured in Kirby Faun. Amer. 

 Bor. IV, pi. 3, fig. 8, 9. 



Wings above silvery blue, terminating, especially at the poste- 

 rior margin, in a very slender black line ; fringe white, barred 



