14 HAUSTEIXATA. — LEl'lDOPTERA. 



' Of this rare British species I have seen very few specimens, and, 

 until the last season, only three recent captures had come to my 

 knowledge. The first of these w^as found in August, 1811, at 

 Wrentham, in Suffolk, by the very ingenious and able artist to 

 whose accurate pencil I am indebted for the figures with which this 

 work is embellished, and is in his brother's collection ; the second 

 specimen was taken about eight years ago in Epping Forest, in 

 June, and the third subsequently near Brighton : but last season 

 many specimens were captured near the last named place by a 

 person residing in that town. It is said to be double-brooded, and 

 the first brood to appear in June, and the latter towards the autumn. 

 It is found in meadows. The county of Kent has produced the 

 greatest number of specimens : Lewin found them not uncommonly 

 near Queenborough and Ospringe in the autumn. Mr. Haworth 

 informs me, that it has been captured near Halvergate, in Norfolk. 

 Genus IV. — Pontia, Fabrkius. 



AnteniKS with an abrupt, obconic, compressed club: palpi short, nearly cylin- 

 tb-ic, three-jointed, the terminal joint slender, as long as the second, or shorter : 

 ivings opaque ; anterior somewhat triangular, sometimes rounded at the tip ; 

 posterior rounded with a groove on the inner margin to receive the abdomen : 

 legs alike in both sexes, rather slender : claivs distinct, unidentate. Cater- 

 pillar cylindric, downy, sometimes tuberculate. Chrysalis angulated, with 

 an obtuse knob, or acmninated in front, supported by a transverse thread. 



The species composing this genus, or at least the majority of 

 them, are well known from frequenting our gardens in search of 

 their mellifluous food, and their larvse from the havoc they commit 

 amongst the various kinds of cabbages, or brassicse. From the sim- 

 plicity of their colouring, and their common appearance, they have 

 been unvt'orthily neglected in this country by collectors; and in 

 consequence we still remain unacquainted with the history and 

 metamorphosis of some of the species, which evidently are far from 

 uncommon. But surely the lover of nature is not to be captivated 

 by the splendour of adventitious ornament alone : he should also 

 delight in the contemplation of the minor beauties which she occa- 

 sionally displays amongst the infinite profusion of her multifarious 

 works. 



The Pontiee A^ary much, and in giving P. Chariclea, Metra, Napsese, 

 and Bryoniae as distinct species, I act solely from a conviction that 

 I am not justified in uniting them with either of their congeners, 

 though it is with diffidence, and not without repeated examination, 



