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 Golden-Banded Skipper (BB Fore wings not crossed)

BB. Fore wings not crossed with a broad, bright yellow band.

C. Upper surface of wings black or brown, with a few white spots on the fore wings or with none, hind wings not checkered with white.

D. Club of antennæ hooked; anal angle of hind wings slightly prolonged.

E. The white spots on the middle of the fore wings forming an almost continuous band. (T. bathyllus), p. 295. THE SOUTHERN CLOUDY-WING. EE. The white spots on the fore wings small, not forming an almost continuous band. (T.pylades), p. 296.

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