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 Regal Fritillary (CC Both wings fulvous Argynnis)

CC. Both wings fulvous (Argynnis).

D. The buff submarginal belt between the two outer rows of silvery spots on the lower surface of the hind wings broad.

E. With the outer-marginal and submarginal lines of the upper surface of the wings separated by a series of quadrangular fulvous bars, except sometimes near the apex of the fore wings of females; a larger species expanding from three to three and one-half inches. (A. cybele), p. 114.

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