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 Large Orange-Sulphur

Phœbis agarithe (Phœ'bis a-gar'i-the) PLATE XVI, FIG. 2 This differs from the two preceding species, which it resembles in size, in that the ground color of the wings is orange. The figure on the plate represents the male; the female has generally golden orange, sometimes pinky-white, fore wings with a diffused orange patch over the end of cell R + M, and a brown spot at the end of this cell. Expanse of wings two and one-half to two and three-fourths inches. This species is found in the southern portion of the Mississippi Valley and southward. The larva feeds upon cassia.

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