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 Tessellate Skipper

Hesperia tessellata (Hes-pe'ri-a tes-sel-la'ta) PLATE XLV, FIG. 7 Wings blackish brown largely checkered with white; more than one-half of the outer two-thirds of both and hind wings being white. In this species the white spots in the band just beyond the middle of the fore wings are much broader than high. Expanse of wings about one and two-tenths inches. This insect is found throughout nearly the whole United States. The larva feeds on hollyhocks and Indian mallow.

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