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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Synopsis of the Groups of Butterflies

THE PARNASSIANS, Family Parnassida, p. 42.

THE SWALLOW-TAILS, Family Papilionoida, p. 45 THE PIERIDS, Family Pierida, p. 69.

THE WHITES, p. 71.

THE ORANGE-TIPS, p. 81.

THE YELLOWs, p. 84.

THE NYMPHS, Family Nymphalida, p. 102.

THE FRITILLARIES, p. 104.

THE CRESCENT-SPOTS, p. 123.

THE ANGLE-WINGS, p. 131.

THE SOVEREIGNS, p. 162.

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