A Reference Table and Key 



Haunts o; the 



BnHERFLY 



Chasactekistic Coloks, MASKracs, Etc. 



Open fields every- 

 where 



Low fields 



Low fields 

 Meadows 



Meadows, hillsides 



Meadows 

 Swamps 



Clover meadows 

 Roadsides 



Roadsides 



Along woods and 



waste places 

 Near trees' 



Near water 



Roadsides 

 Everywhere 



Waste land 

 Thistles 



Pastures 

 Near trees 



Open woods 

 Roadsides 



Meadows 

 Hillsides 

 Hillsides 



About shrubbery 



Everywhere 



Roadsides 

 Roadsides, fields 



Gardens 

 Gardens 



Meadows 

 Fields 



Open woods 

 Gardens, road- 

 sides 

 Open woods 

 Near houses 



Brick-red color, veins black, borders of wings black 



Orange-brown color, checkered with black, no silver spots. A 

 southern species [dark 



Upper side of wings reddish with wavy black lines, hind wing 



Similar to idalia, but hind wings lighter. Silver spots on un- 

 der surface of wings 



Edge of wings tipped with silver, silver spots below 



No silver border, silver below 



Groundwork of black with many red and white spots. Con- 

 spicuous border of red spots 

 Wings dark bordered, lighter baYid across middle of wings 



Groundwork of orange-red mottled with black, silver crescents 



on under margin of hind wings 

 Similar to silver crescent but colors are paler 



Pale red, angled wings, under surface light gray marked with 



silver commas 

 Similar to comma, but marked with silver semi-colons 



Looks much like the angle wings, but has no silver spots 



Broad, reddish yellow band across both wings 

 Black with yellow or cream-bordered wings 



Bright red band circling across both wings 



Mottled with pink, black and white, under surface mottled, 



two large spots on under surface of hind wing 

 Like the painted beauty, but has several small eye spots 



Purple and blue above, six red spots on under surface of wings 



A broad white band across both wings 



Imitates the monarch, but is smaller and has a black line 

 across the hind wings 



Dull brown, twenty spots in two rows across the wings 



Dull brown, six spots [spot 



Dull brown, two eye spots on each fore wing in a larger yellow 



Dark color, hind wings have slender tail-like projection and 

 black spots crowned with crimson j-Q^^^gg ^^^^^^ 



Orange-red fore wings spotted with black, hind wing with 



Male light violet, female lighter with reddish bordered wings 

 Purplish violet color, has small tail-Hke projection on hind wings 



White checkered with black on fore wings, female brownish 

 White, black tip on fore wing, one or two spots on hind wing 



Yellow, bordered with black 

 Canary-yellow color 



Yellow with black lines across wings 



Black with two bands of yellow spots and one band of blue spots 



Black, one row yellow spots, hind wing clouded with green 

 Black shaded with blue green, one row whitish spots 



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