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 Southern Wood-Nymph

DD. Smaller species, expanding from two to two and three-eighths inches. (C. alope).

E. Eye-spots of fore wings enclosed in a common, perfectly distinct pale yellow band. (C. alope alope), p. 185. THE BLUE-EYED GRAYLING.

EE. Eye-spots of fore wings enclosed in a very indistinct common pale band or none at all. (C. alope nephele), p. 185. THE DULL-EYED GRAYLING.

EEE. Eye-spots of fore wings on upper surface enclosed in yellow rings or each on a yellow spot, p. 185.

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