NYMPIIALIXAE: PIIYCIODES THAROS. 



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PHYCIODES THAROS— The pearl crescent. 



[I'eurl crescent fritillary (Go.s.se); pearl crescent (Scu.l.ler) ; Pharos butterfly (Harris); 

 light-house nielitoy (Emmons); little l>lack borderetl butterfly (Maynard); the drappled Me- 



litaea (Ross).] 



Danaus festimis tharos Dvm-y, III. uat. 

 Iiist.,i : 43-44, pi. 21, figs. 5-6 (1770). 



Papilio tharos Cram., Pap. cxot., ii: 112, 

 pi. 169, tigs. E.F. (1779) ;— Herbst, Natursyst. 

 ins. schmctt., ix: 20.3-204, pi. 260, figs. 4-5 

 (1798). 



Melitaea tharos Poey, Cent. Lep. Cuba, 

 (1^32);— Boisd.-LeC, L6p. Am. sept., 170- 

 171, pi. 47, figs. 3-5 (1833);— Morr., Syn. Lep. 

 N. Amer., 51, (1862) ;— May n.. Butt. N. E., 

 27-28, pi. 4, figs. 32, 32a, 32b (1886). 



Eresia tharos Steph., 111. Brit. ent.,IIaust., 

 i: 150 (1828). 



Melitaea {Fhyciodes) tharos Doubl.-Hc- 

 wits., Gen. diurn. Lep., i: 181 (1848). 



Fhyciodes tharos Kirby, Syn. cat. Lep., 

 172 (1871);— Edw., Can. ent., ix:l-10, 51-58 

 (1877) ; Butt. X. Amer., ii, Phyciodes, i, ii, 

 18 pp., 2 pi. (1878);— French, Rep. ins. Til., 

 vii: 151 (1878); Butt. east. U. S., 177-180 

 (1886);— Fern., Butt. Me., 49-51 (1884). 



Argynnis tharossa God., Encycl. m(5th.. 

 ix: 256, 289(1819). 



Melitaea pharos Emm., Agric. X. Y.,v: 

 212-213, pl.43, tigs. 5-6 (18.54);— Harr., Ins.inj. 

 ''veg.,3ded., 289-290, figs. 116-117 (1862). 



Papilio morpheus Fabr., Syst. ent., 530 

 (1775) ;— Herbst, Natursyst. ins. schmett., ix : 

 201-202, pi. 2G0, figs. 1-2 (1798). 



Papilio cocijta Cram., Pap. exot., ii:148, 

 pi. 101, tigs. A-C. (1779). 



Papilio eudea Bergstr., Nomencl. ins. 

 Hanau, iv: 23-24, pi. 19, figs. 1-2 (1780) ;— 

 Herbst, Natursyst. ins. schmett., x : 1.59-160, 

 pi. 284, figs. 9-10 (1800). 



Melitaea selenis Kirby, Faun, bor.-am., 

 iv: 289 (1837). 



Figured by Abbot, Draw. ins. Ga, Brit. 

 Mus., vi : pi. 43, tigs. 38-40 (ca. 1800) ;— Glover, 

 HI. N. A. Lep., pi. O. fig. 9, ined. 



PHYCIODBS THAROS MARCIA. 

 Spring form. 



Melitaea. marcia Edw., Trans. Am. ent. 

 soc, ii : 207-209 (1868) ;— Grub., Jen. zeitschr. 

 uaturw., xvii : 477-478, pi. 8, figs. 28-29 (1884) ; 

 Pap., iv : 90, pi. 3, tigs. 28-29 (1884). 



Phyciodes tharos, form ?na>-cm Edw., loc. 

 cit. (1877-78). 



PIIYCIODES THAROS MORPHEUS. 



Summer form. 



Phyciodes tharos, form morpheus Edw., 

 Can. ent, ix:55 (1877);— Butt. N. Amer.. ii, 

 Phyciodes, i, ii (1878). 



Melitaea tharos Grub., .Jen. zeit*c-hr 

 naturw., xvii: 478-479, pi. 8, fig. 33 (1884);- 

 Pap., iv : 90, pi. 3, fig. 33 (1884), 



Drury's tharos and Cramer's cocyta quoted 

 above are thought by Edwards to belong to 

 this form. 



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Then flutter thou 

 Close by his foot like gilded butterfly. 



Hogg.— The Haunted Glen. 



S] — Atyash niin farashat.— Fickle as a butterfly. 

 Arabic proverb. 



Imago (5:1,3; 12:1,3). Head covered Avith black scales, mostly concealed by 

 i^reeaish fulvous and brownish fulvous haii's, below the base of the antennae bj' 

 tawny fulvous hairs, changing below, toward the tongue, to a commingling of dull 

 fulvous and dirty Avhite scales ; behind the eyes covered above with mingled yellow 

 fulvous and dusky scales, below with whitish scales. Basal joint of palpi and basal 

 third of middle joint pure white externally; beyond, pale yellowish fulvous, with scat- 

 tered black scales ; apical joint a little darker, minutely tipped with white; fringed 

 beneath with mingled white and dusky-tipped fulvous hairs, the former diminishing 

 toAvard the tip ; above with broAvnish fulvous hairs, with a few intermingled black 

 hairs ; inner similar to the outer side, but more besprinkled Avith black scales. An- 

 tennae blackish broAvn above, sometimes enlivened, especially on the basal joints, 

 Avith dull fulvous,* and narrowly annulated, at the base of each joint, Avith Avliite; 



* Occasionally the dull fulvous predominates, producing quite a diflerent appearance. 



