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color varies much, being light cinereous covered with fine 

 abbreviated brown streaks ; or cinereous on dorsum, the 

 abdomen and wing-cases tinted with yellow-brown ; or 

 dull white clouded with brown ; or wholly dark brown 

 speckled with gray. 



The butterflies are to be seen from May through the 

 season. 



United States generally, except the Pacific States. 



53. Phyciodes Batesii, Reak. 



Expanse of wings from 1.25 to 1.63 inches. 



Male. — Fore wings black, two transverse maculate ful- 

 vous bands beyond the cell, the inner pale, arising nearly 

 at the costa and converging to the hind margin. The 

 cell contains three or four abbreviated bars, none of them 

 extending below the median vein. The basal half of 

 the area below this vein is deep black, rarely containing 

 a narrow fulvous streak ; a spot of fulvous in the middle 

 of the outer margin. 



Hind wings black, the two fulvous bands of the fore 

 wings continued nearly to the inner margin, much wider 

 than on the fore wings, the separating line very much 

 attenuated in the middle. The outer band contains a 

 series of rounded black spots between the venules, and 

 beyond these an indistinct row of connected lunules. 

 There are two fulvous spots within the cell, preceding 

 the first transverse band, the inner semicircled by the 

 outer. Fringes white or whitish, more or less cut with 

 black at the ends of the veins. 



Under side of fore wings fulvous ; a large triangular 

 black patch upon the middle of the hind margin is con- 

 nected at its apex ^vith an irregular, dilating bar running 



