178 THE BUTTERFLIES OF THE 



the posterior angle. Hind wings very much as in P. 

 Phaon. 



The under side of fore wings is yellowish fulvous, 

 with yellow spots and four black patches, two on the 

 costa before the apex, one at the posterior angle, and one 

 on the hind margin ; the outer margin with the lunules 

 as in P. Phaon, only yellow. 



The hind wings resemble closely those of the winter 

 form of PJiaon, the yellow perhaps a little deeper. The 

 terminal, costal, and middle brown patches are present in 

 some examples, the wing being well suffused with brown. 



Summer form, MORPHEUS, Fab. This is scarcely dis- 

 tinguishable from Marcia on the upper side, though the 

 black is more inclined to be in lines. The under side 

 of fore wings like Mar da. Under side of hind wings 

 yellow-buff, the brown patches on the costa and in the 

 cell absent, though in some specimens there is a slight 

 discoloration at the end of the cell. In some females a 

 slight costal patch is present. 



Aberr. PACKARDII, Saund. This differs from the 

 usual forms in the wings being brown above, with a 

 cupreous tinge and sprinkled with fulvous atoms. The 

 fulvous is in bauds : first a macular band near the base 

 of the fore wings, not quite reaching either margin ; a 

 patch across the outer part of the cell ; and a wide band 

 beyond the cell, crossed by black veins, narrow on the 

 costal end. On the hind Avings a large fulvous patch 

 covers about the inner half, containing several roundish 

 black spots ; beyond this is a macular band of fulvous 

 between two broad brown bands. Under side pale. 



The eggs are deposited in clusters of two hundred or 

 more on different species of Aster, both wild and culti- 



