120 LEPIDOPTERA OF NORTH AMERICA. 



11. P. peckii Kirby. Faun. Bor. IV,. 300. Figured in Kirby, Faun. Amer. 



Bor. IV, pi. 4. 



Body brown, paler on the under side. Antennae rufous above ; 



below the joints a white patch. Knob fusiform, hooked ; wings 



above tawny brown, with an articulated angular band common to 



both wings, of pale yellow. Primaries striped and streaked with 



the same color near the base and in the costal area; underneath, 



the wings paler. Primaries have nearly the same marks as above; 



on the secondaries, the angular band is surmounted by another 



irregular spot, so as to form two contiguous spots, or rather one 



large irregular didymous one. 



Canada. 



Kikby. 



12. P. numitor Fab. E. S. Ill, 324. Figured in Hubn. Zutr. f. 275. 



The smallest of the family. Antenmu black, rings white, ter- 

 minating in a small point. Body black above, white below ; upper 

 side of all the wings blackish, but glossed for the greatest extent, 

 with shining yellow ; under side of primaries blackish, with the 

 outer edge and summit yellowish ; under side of secondaries yel- 

 lowish, with the outer edge blackish. 



United States. 



GODART. 



13. P. vitellius Sm. Abb. Figured in Sm. Abb. I, pi. 17. 



Head and thorax of males clothed with greenish, fulvous hairs; 

 club of antenna) fulvous, stem brown ; primaries tawny above, with 

 slender black veins ; in the centre of the disk a large black oval 

 spot, the anterior part of which as well as the base within are 

 velvety, and the remainder silky. Outer margin broadly brown 

 and uninterrupted, although irregularly notched within ; two small 

 connected, transverse, fulvous spots near the tip, separating a part 

 of the dark border from the rest. Secondaries above darker tawny, 

 with black veins and a broad irregularly notched dusky border all 

 around the wings, broken near the anal angle by a longitudinal 

 streak of orange, running to the margin. Wings beneath pale 

 tawny ; base of primaries black, with brownish tips, preceded by 

 two small transverse patches of paler butt' color, the upper one 

 farthest from the tip. Secondaries marked along the margins with 

 some slight dusky spots, indicating the dark border of the upper 



