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 Yellow Spot (GG Lower surface of hind wings)

GG. Lower surface of hind wings without a central yellow patch or at most with a paler central area.

H. Lower surface of hind wings blackish brown. 275.

I. Lower surface of hind wings with a paler central area. (A. hobomok pocahontas), p.

THE MORMON (black female).

II. Lower surface of hind wings uniformly dark. (T. cernes), p. 281.

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