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 Striped Hair-Streak (AA Hind wings with only)

AA. Hind wings with only a short projection if any at the end of vein Cu₂.

B. Under side of hind wings without a row of orange spots. (Incisalia.) C. With a distinct white or whitish edging near the base of the under side of the hind wings, limiting a darker band that occupies the outer two-thirds of the basal half of the wing. (I. niphon), p. 234.

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