PHYCIODES I., II. 



PHYCIODES THAROS. 



Phjcioiks Tharos, Drury. 



MARCIA, Edwanls, Trans. Am, Kiit. Soc, 11., p. 207, 1868; Id., Can. Ent., IX., p. 1, 1877. 



MORPHEUS, Edwards, Can. Enl., IX., p. 55, 1877. 



Morpheus, Fab. Syst. Ent., p. 550, 1775; Id., Ent. Syst., III., p. 155, 1793. 



Tharos, Drury, I., pi. 21 ?, 17. Bois. and Lee, p. 170, pi. 47 ^ (not ?), 1833. 



Cocyla, Cramer, II., pi. 101., figs. A., B. 



Pharos, Harris, Ins. Mass., 2d ed,, p. 289, 1862. 



Aberr. PacLanlii, Saunders, in Tackard's Guidf, p. 256. 



Form MARCIA. 



Male. — Expands 1.') inch. 



Upper side red-fulvous, banded and reticulated with black ; the hind margin of 

 primaries broadly Ijordered with black, through which runs a crenated line, or 

 series of nari'ow crescents, either yellow- or red-fulvous, the one in ujjper median 

 interspace large, the others often ob.solete ; within the anterior edge of the 

 border is a series of nearly equal and often contluent fulvous spots, extending 

 from sub-costal to sub-median nervure, the lower spot sometimes pupillated with 

 black ; next beyond is a Inoad, sinuous, fulvous band, sometimes macular ; from 

 the costa a subtriangular black patch covers the end of the cell, and is connected 

 by an oblique line with a smaller patch on middle of inner mai'gin ; within the 

 arc of cell is a black spot with interior fulvous spot or stripe ; in the middle of 

 cell a double ring, and another below cell ; and at base of and below cell rounded 

 black spots. 



Secondaries have a black border of nearly even width, extending round outer 

 angle, and inclosing near its anterior edge a yellowish crenated line, often mac- 

 ular, and sometimes quite obsolete ; beyond is a series of seven large fulvous 

 spots, each pupillated with black, the upper spot nearly or quite lost on the 

 black ground at outer angle ; these are edged by a black line, almost always in- 

 terrupted on the discoidal and upper median interspaces ; remainder of wing 

 fulvous, the base black, and the outer portion of the basal area limited by black, 

 irregularly chain-shaped spots, within which are similar spots crossing the middle 



