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cxninplcs. Tlioiiiili niy inal('ii;il is sc;iii1y, I do not sec any reason (itr scpa- 

 i-al'miJt idudfa t'loiii lliirliKita, w liicli varies <rreall\ in Kuioix'. ( )\ni \v\Y''v vaiietv 

 received from Eiirojie, is cjuite dillerenl iVoiii any Anieriean iudividnai ; liul 

 another is almost identieal (except in ijcini^ larger) with a White ^Alonntain one. 

 Laird. — ■•'I'he caterpillar is sliglitly attenuated lowaiil each extremity; 

 it ifcnerally rests in a slightly-henl posture: it is very varial)le in cohu". l)ro\\n, 

 gray, or green. I descril)e the hrou n ty|)e : the liead delicately nuirked 

 trar.sxersely with dark-hrow n : median >ti-ipe iuteri'upted, and ol' vaiMous 

 colors, ol' \\hi(di i)rick-re(l and dee|)-hlack are most cous])icuous ; a small, 

 oblong, red space, surrounded hy dinyy-w kite, occupies the middk; of the 

 iiiud maryin of eacii segment alter the t()urth, and is united to a black spot 

 similarly surrounded on the interior margin of the succeeding segment; the 

 t\\ () comi)iued constit ufe w hat Jlr. liellins terms the arrow-head markings; 

 the dorsal surface of the tenth, eleventh, twelfth, and (hiileenth segments is 

 very pale, forming a conspicuous pale patch, and this is continued beyond the 

 posterior margin of the ninth segment ; (>acli of the segments after the l()urth 

 has t()ur distant and distinct white dots arranged in a scjuare ; those on tl 

 tenth, eleventh, and twellth segments are surrounded with small l)lack mark- 

 ings; the sides are jjale : the belly is also pale, but has darker stripes: it 

 feeds on the several varieties of cultivated cabbage (Brasv/ca), on nasturtium 

 {I'ropceolum majus). and other garden-plants, and is double-brooded, both in 

 a state of nature and in ca[)tivity. The second brood of caterpillars is lull- 

 fed at the beginning of September." — Newman's British Moths, 164. 



RHEr.MAPTKRA INTERMEDIATA Packard. Plate 8. fisi'. 7;}; plate !), iig. 1. 



McJiinippc iiitcrmcdiala Guen., I'bal., ii, :J'J5, 18.')7. 



Walk., Li.st Lep. Ilet. lir. Mns., xxv, \2'M\ IfM. 



6 c^ and 2 9. — Dusky cinereous, with somewhat of a flesh-colored 

 tint. Fore wings with two dark, parallel, wavy, black lines at the i)ase ; 

 the base of the winu iieim^: either clear or dark reddish-brown oi- dusky, 

 hut not so dark as in U. lacnstratit : l)eyond the dark lines and the median 

 band, the wing is more or less cinereous, with two or three dusky lines. 

 or sometimes a siiiirle reddish-brown band: the median band is l)lack and 

 heavy, limited on each side i)y two heavy wavy or scallo|)ed black lines ; 

 the baud varies much in width, especially near tin; inner edge ot' the 

 winy; it also varies in the prominence of the angle on the first median 

 vein, which is larae and (-(unpo.sed of two or three scallops (while that of A'. 



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