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 Violet-Tip (CC Lower surface of hind wings)

CC. Lower surface of hind wings with a single, central, silvery comma or bent bar.

D. The silvery comma expanded at the ends.

E. The outer third of the lower surface of the wings variegated with green. (P. faunus), p. 138.

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