361 



[New England Farmer, Vol. VII, No. li, p. 402, July 10, 1829.] 



Pontia Oleracea. [PI. iv, figs. 9-li.] 



Specific cliai-acter. Wings Avliite, sub-diaphanous, anterior ones dusky 

 at base, and on the external edge, tip beneath pale yellow with fuscous 

 veins: Posterior wings beneath straw colored with fuscous veins, humeral 

 angle yellow. Body black, with cinereous hairs above, and whitish ones 

 beneath. Antennte black brown, annulated with white scales; apex pale 

 ochreous. 



Expansion of the wings about two inches. 



Egg pyrifbrm, longitudinally ribbed, yellowish. 



Larva pale green, with a darker dorsal line, very minutely punctured with 

 darker spots, and inconspicuously downy. 



Length, at full size, one and one fourth inch. 



Pupa pale green or white, regularly and finely spotted with black: ante- 

 rior extremity produced, conical, back before, with an elevated, laterally 

 compressed, securiform process, sides of the dorsum, in the middle, angular, 

 and elevated; posterior part with a central carina. Length eight tenths of 

 an inch. 



Habitat (natural unknown;) on the leaves o? Brassica Rapa, B. Oleracea^ 

 and Raphananus sativus, in New Hampshire and Massachusetts. 



[New England Farmer, Vol. IX, No. i, p. 2, July 23, 1830.] 



Ichneumon Hordei. 



Black, slightly hairy; head and thorax granulated, abdomen smooth, 

 polished; thighs at tip, legs and feet at base pale ochreous yellow. Length 

 about twelve hundredths of an inch. 



[New England Farmer, Vol. IX, No. i, p. 2, July 23, 1830.] 



^geria Pyri. 



Body black, with a bluish gloss; palpi, breast, fore legs, intermediate and 

 posterior thighs and feet, (except at tip,) and three narrow bands across the 

 abdomen pale golden yellow. Wings transiiarent in the middle; the ner- 

 vures, margins, together with the broad tip and small transverse somewhat 

 triangular band on the anterior ones, covered Avith opaque brownish scales 

 and hairs. A small metallic spot on the transverse band near the posterior 

 margin, and the tip exhibiting some metallic reflections. — Length three 

 tenths of an inch. 



