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 Sleepy

YELLOW.

AA. Antennæ gradually increasing in size toward the tip; the club ill-defined, slender, cylindrical, and terminating abruptly.

B. The outer margin of the upper surface of the front wings distinctly bordered with a dark-brown or black band.

C. Fore wings with a dog's-head figure. (Z. casonia), THE DOG'S-HEAD. p. 90.

CC. Fore wings without a dog's-head figure.

D. Colors normally yellow. (E. philodice), p. 92.

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