marcia comes from larvae which have hibernated during the winter, and is lighter and brighter 

 in color, especially beneath, than butterflies of the later summer and fall broods. 



Eggs laid on asters and related plants; greenish yellow. Matured caterpillar dark brown, 

 dotted on the back with yellow; adorned with short, bristly, black spines, yellow at base. 

 Chrysalis pale gray, blotched with spots of brown. 



Ranges from southern Labrador to Florida and westward to the Pacific Coast. 



(3) Phyciodes batesi (Reakirt), Plate XXII, Fig. 3, cT, upper side; Fig. 4, underside, 9 

 (Bates' Crescent-spot). 



Above closely resembling P. tharos, but with the dark markings much heavier; below hind 

 wings quite uniformly pale yellowish fulvous, with a row of very pale marginal crescents; ends 

 of veins tipped with brown. Expanse 1.25-1.65 inch. 



Ranges from New England to Virginia and westward to the Mississippi. 



(4) Phyciodes pratensis (Behr), Plate XXIII, Fig. 1, J> (The Meadow Crescent). 

 Closely resembling the preceding, but fore wings not as curved on the costal margin, 



and relatively longer and narrower; the pale markings more whitish, not so red, and more 

 clearly defined. On the under side, especially in the female, the markings are heavier than 

 in P. batesi. Expanse 1.15-1.40 inch. 



Ranges from Oregon to southern California, Arizona, and northern Mexico. 



(5) Phyciodes camillus Edwards, Plate XXIII, Fig. 2, cT. under side (The Camillus 

 Crescent). 



Resembling P. pratensis, but the pale spots on fore wings paler, and on hind wings 



