LEriDOPTERA OF THE BRISTOL DISTRICT. 1^3 



[Also recorded from woods near Taunton, by 

 Mr. Rawlinson, Intelligencer, Vol. I., p. 5 3 and 

 by Mr. StanselI,-E?^^o«w%^s^^VoLVIII.p. 158.] 

 PiERis cRAT^Gi. L. Has apparently becomc vcry scarce In the 

 West of England, not having been noticed 

 lately in many of its old localities. 



» » Glos. Boiling Wells, Bristol. Scarce, s.b. 



Used to occur near Stroud, m.g.m. 

 Somerset. Filwood. F. V. Jacques. Rare 

 at Portishead. j.n.d. Clevedon. a.e.h. Worle. 

 G.H. Weston-s.-m. g.r.c. 



,, BRASsiciE. L. Common throughout the district. " In 

 1872, I took a specimen on March 30th, at 

 Wotton, and that year it was unusually 

 abundant ; in the autumn of 1877, ^^ was also 

 in prodigious numbers." V. R. Perkins, in 

 lilt. 



„ RAP.E. L. Abundant everywhere. The earliest and 

 latest dates of its first appearance, from 1864 to 

 1877 (as recorded by Mr. Perkins) are ''March 

 i6th, 1S74," and "April 24th, 1866.'' 



„ NAPi. L. Throughout the district, appearing rather later 

 than P. rapcB, and not quite so abundantly. 



„ daplidice. L. Glos. A specimen of the "Bath 

 White " was captured many years ago, near 

 the Bristol Royal Infirmary, by Dr. Dyer. Mr. 

 H. C. Harford. ( Communicated hy Mr. Harding.) 

 Somerset. A specimen taken near Bath, is 

 recorded by Lewin, Magazine of Natural Ristorg 

 for 1831. "One captured by J. S. M. in a 

 field near Keynsham, in 18 18, was in the 

 cabinet of Mr. Miller, of Bristol." Dale, in 

 Mag. Nat. Mist, for 183 1. Mr. Barton in- 

 forms me, this last named specimen used to be 



