ROADSIDE LIFE. 



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THE WHITES AND THE YELLOWS. 



These are the most abundant of all our butterflies, 

 being common everywhere in fields and roads. 

 They are usually of 

 medium size, but 

 some of them are 

 small. They belong 

 to the family PlER- 

 ID^E (Pi-er'i-das). 



THE WHITES.- 

 The more common 

 representatives of 

 this group are the 



FlG. 214. A cabbage-butterfly. 



well-known cabbage- 



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butterflies. The most widely distributed species is 

 Picris rapte (Pi'e-ris rapcz). Fig. 214 represents the 



FIG. 215. Larvae and pupa 

 of a cabbage-butterfly. 



male ; in the female there are two spots on the outer 

 part of the fore wing, besides the black tip. In Fig. 



