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 Least Skipper (DD Upper surface of hind wings)

DD. Upper surface of hind wings of a uniform brown. (O. powesheik), p. 273. THE POWESHEIK SKIPPER.

BB. Club of antenne with a recurved apical hook.

C. Exceptionally large species, the wings expanding about two inches. With a well-marked vestigial vein in cell R + M of the fore wing. (C. ethlius), p. 285.

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