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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The Brazilian Skipper (CC Species of moderate size)

CC. Species of moderate size, the expanse of the wings rarely exceeding one and one-half inches. No vestigial vein in cell R + M of the fore wing. (The Erynnis Group.) D. The upper surface of the wings black or dark blackish brown, this color extending quite uniformly over the entire wings excepting for some well-defined whitish or tawny spots of small or moderate size; in some species the wings are without spots.

E. Wings without whitish or tawny spots both above and below.

F. Fore wings with a brand. (E. vestris), p. 283.

THE DUN SKIPPER (male).

FF. Fore wings without a brand. (E. fusca), p. 284.

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