

VOL. XIV. 



LONDON, ONT., JANUARY, 1882. 



No. I 



ENTOMOLOGY FOR BEGINNERS. 



THE SOUTHERN CABBAGE BUTTERFLY— Pieris protodice. 



BY THE EDITOR. 



In figure i we have represented the male, and in figure 2 the female 

 of the Southern Cabbage Butterfly, an insect by no means confined to the 



South, although much more abun- 

 • / ^-.:r-?«^r''S!6v dant there than in the more northerly 



portions of America. This insect 

 enjoys a wide geographical distri- 

 bution, extending south-west as far 

 as Texas, west to Missouri, north- 

 west to the Red River, and along 

 the east from Connecticut to the 

 '^' ^' Southern Atlantic States. A few 



years ago it was not uncommon around London, and occasionally quite 

 plentiful about the shore of Lake Erie at Port Stanley ; but of late years 

 it has become a rare insect with 

 us, and we have not met with a 

 specimen on the wing for several 

 years. The English Cabbage But- 

 terfly, Pieris rapce, seems to have 

 taken its place entirely. 



The butterfly is a very pretty 

 one, as will be seen by the figures. 

 The ground color in both sexes is Fig. 2. 



white, with black spots and black and dusky markings which are much 

 more numerous in the female than in the male. Although so rare in 

 Ontario that it has never, as far as ,we know, been reported as injurious, it 

 is frequently very destructive to the south of us. According to Mr. Rilej', 



