122 WHITE BUTTERFLIES. 



umbelliferous plants, chiefly the carrot, wild and cultivated, 

 from whence it has acquired, in France, the name of "Le 

 grand Carottier."" Of another genus, with hinder wings, 

 rounded instead of angular, or tailed, is the pretty butterfly 

 known as the ' ' Clouded Yellow." In England, however, it is 

 known but partially, appearing only in certain seasons, and 

 then chiefly on the coasts of Kent, Sussex, and Suffolk. As 

 its name imports, the prevailing hue of its wings is yellow, 

 clouded towards their outer edge with black. The caterpillar, 

 green witli white lines, is said to feed upon leguminous plants, 

 though the perfect insect delights chiefly in the flowers of the 

 thistle. 



Coming out with the flowers of May, and almost as abun- 

 dant, are the pale-winged Butterflies, which, like bevies of 

 white-robed damsels, usher in the summer. From whence 

 have they issued forth ? 'Tis almost a pity that, as insect 

 genealogists, we must trace their origin, and confess the most 

 of them to have been 



" Born in a ' cabbage,' in a ' cabbage ' bred " 



and that they have come, therefore, from purlieus the walls 

 most likely of the kitchen garden. But what matters it whence 

 they sprang, or whence they came, since they have left behind 

 them, buried in the hearts of kale, or transferred therewith to 



* Colias edusa. 



