PHYCIODES II. 



PHYCIODES PHAON, 14—17. 



Phjciorhs Phaon, Edwards, Proe. Ent. Soc. Phil., II., p. 505. 



Dimorphic form HIEMALIS. (Fig.s. 1(3, 17.) 



Male. — Expamls from 1 to 1.4 inch. 



Upper side black, banded and spotted with fulvous, the patterns being the 

 same as in the melanic examples of the summer form of Tharos ; the extra- 

 discal band on primaries being lighter, more orange-fulvous than in that species, 

 and the sinuous discal band varying from yellow-ochraceous to sordid wliite ; 

 on secondaries the extra-discal series of pupillated sp6ts is limited to six, and 

 these are, in most examples, partly covered by the broad black marginal borders ; 

 fringes of primaries black, yellow-white at the ends of the ncrvules, of (Second- 

 aries yellow-white, black at ends of the nervules. 



Under side of primaries orange-fulvous, the markings as in Tharos ; the hind 

 margins bordered with brown, deepening into black next inner angle ; at the 

 apex, and in the upper median interspace, yellow ; the discal l)and repeated, 

 diffuse, yellow ; and next within this a conspicuous black band. 



Secondaries pale buft", unevenly clouded with brown over the extra-discal area 

 to margin, and on disk and toward base ; the markings as in Var. B of the winter 

 form of Tharos, the disk crossed by a clear band. 



Body black, beneath white, the extremity of abdomen yellowish ; legs fulvous, 

 the inner sides of the femora white ; palpi white at base, yellowish above, black 

 on upper side ; antenna} black, yellowish on under side, ringed with white ; club 

 black, fulvous at tip. 



Female. — Expands 1.4 inch. 



Similar to the male in color and markinffs. 



Dimorphic form .ESTIVA. (Figs. 14, 15.) 



Same size as its co-firm and not distinguishable on the upper side ;' on the 



