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 Snout Butterfly

Hypatus bachmani (Hyp'a-tus bach-man'ni) FIG. 38 The wings are blackish brown above, marked with orange patches and white spots. On the front wings there is an orange patch in cell R + M, and another occupying the middle half of cell Cu and a part of cell Cu₁; between these and the apex of the wing are three white spots; on the hind wings there is an FIG. 38. The snout butterfly.

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