] 24 LADY OF THE WOODS. 



from the nervures of their wings being marked on the under- 

 side with dusky green and the large " Hawthorn Butterfly/' or 

 " Black-veined White."* The latter is a handsome insect, with 

 semi-transparent cream-white wings, strongly veined with 

 black. 



The pretty " Orange-Tip," or " Lady of the Woods," t is like- 

 wise of the cabbage family. In its green youth it is a feeder also 

 upon rape, cabbage, and other cruciform plants ; but this, 

 while a cofcr-pQlar, is no pillager of cates of culture, preferring 

 the vegetable in its wilder growth a taste more accordant, 

 certainly, with the habits of its maturity and the favourite 

 spots such as open glades, and lawns, and woodlands, whither 

 it delights to fly, a-Maying. Though we are accustomed to 

 designate this darling of the summer as the "Orange- Tip ' 

 and " The Lady of the Woods," these epithets, applied in 

 conjunction, or indifferently, are not by any means of correct 

 application, seeing that with these butterflies it is the lord 

 only of the lady, whose white pinions, besides bearing a 

 black crescent, are adorned by the patch of deep orange, which 

 makes the title of " Orange-Tip ' befitting to him alone in 

 both himself and partner the wings on their reverse are beau- 

 tifully variegated in white and green. 



A few words now for a singular and beautiful tribe of But- 



* Pontia, or Pieris C'rvtspgi. f Pontia Cardawines. 



