PIER IS. 



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which are also sprinkled with black scales. The two discal 

 spots on the fore-wings reappear below in both sexes ; the other 

 dark markings are obsolete ; the fringes are yellowish, slightly 

 waved with black. The body and antennae are white beneath 

 and black above ; the thorax is clothed with hoary pubescence 

 above. 



The larva is green, with yellow lines on the back and sides ; 

 it is thickly covered with black tubercular points, each with a 

 hair in the centre. It feeds on cabbages, Tropaolum^ migno- 

 nette, and many other plants, and is very liable to the attacks 

 of small Ichneumons, or rather BracofiidcE. The yellow 

 cocoons of one of the most destructive of these parasites 

 {Apaiiteles glonieraiiis) may often be seen clustered round a 

 dead larva. The pupa is greenish, with yellow streaks, and 

 numerous black dots. The egg is figured (vol. i. pi. i, fig. 4). 



Pupa of/*, brassiccs, 



THE EARLY WHITE CABBAGE BUTTERFLY. PIERIS CIIARICLEA. 



{Plate LI 11. Fig. i.) 

 Pontia chariclea^ Stephens, 111. Brit. Ent. Haust. i. p. 17, 

 pi. 3, figs. I, 2. 

 This Butterfly, which occurs in May and June, is considered 

 to be only the spring brood of P. brassicip.^ and although the 

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