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 Moths

AA. Lepidopterous insects in which the antennæ are threadlike with a knob at the extremity.

B. With the radius of the fore wings five-branched, and with all of the branches arising from cell R + M (Fig. 22); the club of the antennæ usually terminated by a recurved hook. (Superfamily Hesperioidea), p. 256.

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