How to Know the Butterflies

The Cornell classic that taught America to name what it saw: every eastern butterfly described from life, with its caterpillar, its food-plants, its habits — and how to pronounce its Latin.

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Juvenal's Dusky-Wing (CC Both fore and hind wings)

CC. Both fore and hind wings checkered with many white spots.

D. The white spots in the band just beyond the middle of the fore wings much broader than high. (H. tessellata), p. 300. THE TESSELLATE SKIPPER.

DD. The white spots in the band just beyond the middle of the fore wings but little if any broader than high. (H. centaurea), p. 301.

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