PHYCIODES II. 
PHYCIODES VESTA, 18—21. 
Phyciodes Vesta , Edwards, Trans. Am. Ent. Soc., II., p. 371. 
Dimorphic form HIEMALIS. (Figs. 20, 21.) 
Male. — Expands .9 to 1.1 inch. 
Upper side black, marked with dull fulvous of nearly uniform shade through¬ 
out, after the pattern of Tharos and Phaon, except that the spots are smaller, and 
the bands interrupted, so that the surface is more macular than in those species. 
Under side of primaries pale fulvous from base, including the discal band, the 
spots of which are confluent and diffused ; this band is edged anteriorly by a 
broken, zigzag, black line, and anterior to it are several short black stripes ; the 
extra-discal area black, and within this is a complete transverse series of rounded 
fulvous spots; the margin varied with brown and yellow, the latter on middle 
and at apex; the submarginal crescents as in the allied species. 
Secondaries deep ochraceous-yellow, clouded with brown over the marginal 
area, and on disk and costal margin, as in the winter form of Tharos , Var. B ; 
the basal area reticulated with dark brown, as in that species, as also in the 
winter form of Phaon, the discal band being lighter than the ground ; the sub- 
marginal crescents also as in those species. 
Body black, beneath yellow-white, fulvous-tinted at extremity; legs fulvous, 
the inner sides of the femora white; palpi yellow-white with many black hairs in 
front, dark at the sides near tip ; antemim black, yellowish beneath and ringed 
with white ; club black, tipped with fulvous. 
Female. — Expands 1.15 inch. 
Upper side similar to the male ; beneath paler; on secondaries the discal band 
is nearly white, and the spots in the interstices over basal area are partly white, 
partly yellowish; so the submarginal crescents at either angle are white, as well 
as the one on upper median interspace. ' 
