Butterflies Worth Knowing

Name: Butterflies Worth Knowing
Author: Weed, Clarence Moores

Weed, Clarence Moores

Butterflies -- North America

THE TRUE BUTTERFLIES--SUPERFAMILY _Papilionoidea_                55
 PARNASSIANS (_Parnassiinae_)                                     56
 SWALLOWTAILS (_Papilionidae_)                                    57
   Black Swallowtail; Giant Swallowtail; Blue Swallowtail;
     Green-clouded Swallowtail; Tiger Swallowtail; Palamedes
     Swallowtail; Short-tailed Papilio; Zebra Swallowtail;
     Synopsis of the Swallowtails
 WHITES, ORANGE-TIPS, AND YELLOWS (_Pieridae_)                    82
   The Tribe of the Whites: White or Imported Cabbage Butterfly;
     Gray-veined White; Checkered White; Great Southern White;
     Synopsis of the Whites                                       83
   The Tribe of the Orange-tips: Falcate Orange-tip;
     Olympian Orange-tip; Synopsis of the Orange-tips             92
   The Tribe of the Yellows: Brimstone or Cloudless
     Sulphur; Dog's-head; Clouded Sulphur; Orange
     Sulphur; Pink-edged Sulphur; Black-bordered Yellow;
     Little Sulphur; Dainty Sulphur; Synopsis
     of the Yellows                                               97
 NYMPHS (_Nymphalidae_)                                          111
   The Tribe of the Fritillaries: Gulf Fritillary;
     Variegated Fritillary; Diana Fritillary; Regal Fritillary;
     Great Spangled Fritillary; Silver-spot Fritillary;
     Mountain Silver-spot; White Mountain Fritillary;
     Meadow Fritillary; Silver-bordered Fritillary;
     Synopsis of the Fritillaries                                115
   The Tribe of the Crescent-spots: Baltimore Checker-spot;
     Harris's Checker-spot; Silver Crescent; Pearl Crescent;
     Synopsis of the Crescent-spots                              135
   The Tribe of the Angle-wings: Violet-tip; Hop-merchant
     or Comma; Gray Comma; Green Comma; Red Admiral or Nettle
     Butterfly; Painted Beauty; Painted Lady or Cosmopolite;
     Mourning-cloak; American tortoise-shell; White J Butterfly
     or Compton Tortoise; Buckeye; Synopsis of the Angle-wings
     (I. Polygonias--II. Vanessids)                              150
   The Tribe of the Sovereigns: Viceroy; Banded Purple;
     Red-spotted Purple; Vicereine; Synopsis of the Sovereigns   192
   The Tribe of the Emperors: Goatweed Emperor; Gray Emperor;
     Tawny Emperor; Synopsis of the Emperors                     207
 MEADOWS-BROWNS OR SATYRS (_Agapetidae_)                         214
   Common Wood Nymph or Grayling; Southern Wood Nymph;
   Pearly Eye; Eyed Brown; White Mountain Butterfly; Arctic
   Satyr; Little Wood Satyr; Other Meadow-browns; Synopsis of
   Meadow-browns
 HELICONIANS (_Heliconidae_)                                     229
   Zebra Butterfly
 MILKWEED BUTTERFLIES (_Lymnadidae_)                             232
   Monarch; Queen
 SNOUT BUTTERFLIES OR LONG-BEAKS (_Libytheidae_)                 236
   Snout Butterfly
 METAL-MARKS (_Riodinidae_)                                      239
   Small Metal-mark; Large Metal-mark

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