PHYCIODES I., II. 



surface is less extreme and is not sufficiently distinctive, and therefore the sec- 

 ondaries alone may be used in characterization. 



Var. A. The marginal cloud and costal patch wanting ; the basal area sil- 

 vered or white, perhaps a little discolored at extremity of cell ; the crescents 

 silvered or white ; extra-discal area yellow-brown. (Figs. 1, 2 (?.) 



Yar. B. The larger part of the wing dark brown, but usually the discal band 

 is unobscured or nearly so, and is white and conspicuous, as is also the costal mar- 

 gin next base and at outer angle ; except at this angle the crescents obscured. 

 (Fig. 3 c?;4, 5 9.) 



Var. C. In the male, the ground is either bright ochrey-yellow throughout, 

 the Ijand and basal area not differing from the area beyond the disk, with a 

 marginal cloud, and a large brown spot on the disk (Fig. 9) ; or the ochre-yellow 

 is slightly obscured over the disk and outer limb, and the spaces between the 

 reticulated lines are partly yellow, partly feint white. (Fig. 6.) The discal 

 spot varies much in shape, being sometimes a transverse bar, somethnes a lon- 

 gitudinal one limited to the cell (Fig. G), or perhaps a triangular patch (Fig. 8). 

 In the female, primaries have the hind margin largely covered with bright yel- 

 low ; secondaries either bright or deep ochraceous, the band and spaces variegated 

 with faint white and yellow, delicately tinted with brown on the disk, the cres- 

 cents white or silvered Avhere not covered by the cloud. (Fig. 7.) 



Var. D. This variety runs into the summer form of the species, the ground 

 being either bright or deep yellow, or inclined to buft', sometimes with a red- 

 dish tint ; in the male, the reticulations are less distinct, the band always lost in 

 the ground color, the cloud small, narrow, and dark colored, often concealing 

 the crescents on middle of margin ; on the disk a small brown patch and a slight 

 one on costal margin ; often one or both these are wanting. (Figs. 12, li.) In 

 the female the reticulations are strong, ferruginous, the cloud and both discal 

 and costal patches conspicuous. (Fig. 13.) This female resembles the female 

 of Var. B of the summer form more than it does its own male. There are nu- 

 merous intergrades between B and C, C and D, but want of space prevents my 

 illustrating more than one of them, — C D. (Figs. 10, 11.) 



Form MORPHEUS. 



Same size as Marcia in both sexes, and not distinguishable on the upper side, 

 varying in same manner. On the under side of primaries, the male has the mar- 

 gin ornamented with dark brown and yellow, the black patches large and in- 

 tense, the groimd pale fulvous. Secondaries have the ground yellow-buflT, but 

 varying somewhat in individuals, the reticulations ferruginous, slight, often more 

 or less obsolete, and no costal or discal patch, though sometimes there is a slight 



