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 Sooty-Wing (EE Larger species)

EE. Larger species.

F. Fore wings without white spots.

G. Fore wings with a hoary patch just beyond the middle of the wing and extending from the costal margin nearly half-way to the inner margin. (T. icelus), p. 298.

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