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 Orange Sulphur

SULPHUR.

BB. The outer margin of the upper surface of the front wings not bordered with a brown or black band; someband; sometimes, however, there is a series of dark spots on the spots on the outer margin.

C. Ground color of the upper surface of the wings canary-yellow.

D. Outer margin of hind wings with a broad orange band. (C. philea), p. 87.

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