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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 Butter- 

 • fly 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: Goat weed Emperor; 

 Gray Emperor; Tawny Emperor; Synopsis of 

 the Emperors 207 



Meadow-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; Larg^e Metal-mark 



