III. THE CLASSIFICATION OF BUTTERFLIES 58-68
The Place of Butterflies in the Animal Kingdom; The Principles of Scientific Arrangement; The Species; The Genus; The Family, etc.; Scientific Names; Synonyms; Popular Names.
IV. BOOKS ABOUT NORTH AMERICAN BUTTERFLIES 69-74
Early Writers; Later Writers; Periodicals.
PAGE THE BUTTERFLIES OF NORTH AMERICA NORTH OF MEXICO.
Family I. _Nymphalidae_, the Brush-footed Butterflies 77 Subfamily _Euplaeinae_, the Milkweed Butterflies 80 Subfamily _Ithomiinae_, the Long-winged Butterflies 85 Subfamily _Heliconiinae_, the Heliconians 91 Subfamily _Nymphalinae_, the Nymphs 93 Subfamily _Satyrinae_, the Satyrs, Meadow-browns, and Arctics 197 Subfamily _Libytheinae_, the Snout-butterflies 226
Family II. _Lemoniidae_ 228 Subfamily _Erycininae_, the Metal-marks 228
Family III. _Lycaenidae_ 236 Subfamily _Lycaeninae_, the Hair-streaks, the Blues, and the Coppers 236
Family IV. _Papilionidae_, the Swallowtails and Allies 272 Subfamily _Pierinae_, the Whites, the Sulphurs, the Orange-tips 272 Subfamily _Papilioninae_, the Parnassians and Swallowtails 304
Family V. _Hesperiidae_, the Skippers 318 Subfamily _Pyrrhopyginae_ 319 Subfamily _Hesperiinae_, the Hesperids 320 Subfamily _Pamphilinae_ 339 Subfamily _Megathyminae_, genus Megathymus 367
PAGE Immortality (Sigourney) 57 Hugo's "Flower to Butterfly" (Translated by Eugene Field) 74 Superstitions (Frank Cowan) 90 Luther's Saddest Experience (Yale Literary Magazine, 1852) 100 A Race after a Butterfly 127 Suspicious Conduct 136 Collecting in Japan 149 Faunal Regions 161 Widely Distributed Butterflies 171 The Butterflies' Fad (Ella Wheeler Wilcox) 186 Fossil Insects 195 In the Face of the Cold 224 Uncle Jotham's Boarder (Annie Trumbull Slosson) 233 Mimicry 235 The Utility of Entomology 256 Size 271 Instinct 280 Red Rain (Frank Cowan) 299 For a Design of a Butterfly Resting on a Skull (Mrs. Hemans) 303 The Caterpillar and the Ant (Allan Ramsay) 316 Collections and Collectors 337 Exchanges 344
