NYMPHALINAE: PHYCIODES BATESII. 643 



LIST OF ILLUSTEAriONS.-PHYCIODES THABOS. 



General. Imago. 

 PI. 2-2, li-. 3. Distrilnitioii iu North America. i.]. 5^ gj,. i_ p t. morpbeus, male, both sur- 



Eyg. faces. 



PI. G4, fig. 2'J. Chister of eggs. 3. P. t. morpheus, female, both 



31. Single egg, colored. surfaces. 



G7:15. Micropyle. 12:1. P. t. morpheus, male, l)oth sur- 



Caterpillur. faces. 



PI. 72, tig. G. Caterpillar at birth. 3. P. t. morpheas, female, both sur- 



75: 8. Front view of head. faces. 



9. Dorsal view of caterpillar. 34:1,2. Male abdominal appendages. 



79 : 12-15. Front views of he:ul in stages i, 39 : 8. Neuration. 



and iii-v. 54: 2. Side view of head and appendages 



Chrvsolis enlarged, with details of the structure of 



PI. 84, fig. 20. Dorsal view in outline. *^^^ ^*^»^- 



21,22. Side views. ^^ = *'^- Papilla of tongue. 



PHYCIODES BATESII— The tawny crescent. 



Eresia batesii Reak., Proc. Ent. soc. sept., 171, pi. 47, fig. 5, [not p. 170, pi. 47, figs. 



Philad., V : 226-227 (18C6). 3, 4] (1833). 



Phyciodes batesii Kirb., Syn. cat. lep., 172 



(1871) ;-French, Butt. east. U. S., 180-181 Figured in Glover, 111. N. A. Lep., pi. 0, 



(188G). fig- i-""' i"ed. 



Melitaea tharos Boisd.-LeC, L6p. Am6r. [Not Papilio tharos Drury.] 



The butterflies fold their wings of gold. 



Eliza Cook.— Night. 



Imago (14: 5). Head covered with black and a few intermingled fulvous scales, 

 mostly concealed by long, yellowish fulvous hairs among which, especially iu the 

 middle of the summit, are intermingled a few soft, brown ones ; sides of the head 

 covered with tawny and black scales, the black predominating above. Basal joint of 

 palpi pale yellowish fulvous, slightly flecked with blackish, its inferior edge silvery 

 white, especially in the basal half, fading as it approaches the tip, also narrowly 

 edged with white where it hugs the eye; fringes yellowish fulvous more or less 

 infuscated toward the tip, and on the upper edge mingled with black hairs; beneath 

 pale yellowish ; apical joint yellowish fuh'ous below, brownish above, delicately pale 

 tipped. Antennae purplish black above, the basal fifth of each joint, excepting close 

 to the base, interrupted with pure white, flecked a little with tawny exteriorly, and 

 with fulvous interiorly; beneath pure white, the basal joints specked slightly with 

 black ; club blackish, the white of the under surface extending a little way upon the 

 basal joints. Tongue pale luteous, the apical portion infuscated. 



Thorax covered above with olivaceous and brow^nish fulvous hairs ; iu front the 

 hairs are more distinctly fulvous and upon the patagia gx-eenish ; beneath silvery or 

 slightly bluish Avhite. Fore legs faintly fulvous ; other legs nearly uniform tawny 

 fulvous, beneath silvery white ; spines and spurs orange luteous ; claws reddish luteous 

 slightly infuscated at tip ; pulvillus dusky. 



Wings above fulvous, very heavily marked with blackish brown; fore icings so 

 greatly o))scured that they may jMore readily be described as blackish marked with 

 fulvous; the cell is mostly fulvous, but the base is infuscated and limited by a convex 

 edging, and crossing the middle of the cell is a heavy 8-shaped blackish spot, or two 

 semicircles meeting by the middle of their arcs in the centre of the cell, and imme- 

 diately below in the medio-submedian interspace is a similar spot most generally 

 obscured and seldom more than faintly marked by paler edgings and centres; just 



