BUTTERFLIES OF MAINE. pars 
Fig. 5. Pieris rape, male (nat. size). Fig. €. Pieris rape, female (nat. size). 
4. Preris raez, L. 
Pi'-e-ris ra’-pe. 
Expanse of wings, about two inches. 
Upper side of the wings white, dusky at the base and on 
the apex of the fore wings. A black spot rests on the costa 
of the hind wing a little beyond the middle. Fore wing with 
a black spot a little beyond the middle, and in the female 
there is another below it. These dark markings are some- 
times quite faint. 
Under side of the fore wings white, yellowish towards the 
apex, and with two black spots in both sexes corresponding 
to the two on the upper side of the female. Under side of the 
hind wings pale lemon yellow, without marks, but sprinkled 
more or less with dark atoms. 
Body, black above, white beneath. 
A male variety of this species, with the ground color of 
the wings sulphur yellow, has been described by Mr. Scudder, 
under the name novanglie. 
The larva of this insect feeds on the leaves of the cabbage, 
turnip, mignonette and some other plants, but is especially 
injurious to cabbages, boring into the interior of the head, 
beyond the reach of insecticides. 
The eggs are scattered here and there on the under side of 
the leaves of the food plant, but sometimes they are found 
on the upper side, or even on the leaf-stalk. They are some- 
what pear-shaped, flattened at the base, and the apex is cut 
squarely off. They are yellowish white in color, and marked 
with twelve longitudinal ribs wit very fine cross lines be- 
