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 Classification of Butterflies

Superfamily Papilionoidea (Pa-pil-i-o-noi'de-a) In learning to know the butterflies the student will find his work simplified, and his enjoyment of it greatly increased, if he early learns something of the grouping of the species into families, and of the principal divisions of the families.

This can be done, without learning the more technical characteristics upon which this grouping is based, by reference to the following synopsis of families. The technical distinctions are given later in a tabular form.

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