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 Emperors

The butterflies of this group are found chiefly in the south ern part of our country. The three most common specier can be separated as follows :

A. Apex of fore wings strongly falcate; hind wings tailed. (A. andria), p. 177.

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