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 Eyed Brown

3 AA. Eyes naked or nearly so; veins M and Cu, of the hind wings arising separately, vein Cu, arising before the apex of cell R + M (Fig. 36).

B. Upper surface of the fore wings with eye-spots.

C. Upper surface of hind wings usually with two large eye-spots, one each in cells M, and Cu, and sometimes a smaller one in cell Cu. Expanse of wings about one and one-half inches. (C. eurytus), p. 197.

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