19 4 A CATALOGUE OK THE LEPIDOPTERA OF 



glomeratus, Linn., wliich destroys great numbers. The small 

 yellow coccoons of its pupa? may frequently be observed clustered 

 round the shrivelled body of the caterpillar, which has crawled 

 up a wall apparently in its last efforts to assume the pupa state 



itself. 



It seems to be agreed by all Entomologists, that the Pont la 

 Charidea, Steph., is only a variety of this species. I have taken 

 it near Newcastle in the very beginning of May, and it is in- 

 cluded in the list given in " Ornsby's Durham." 



2. P. Rap^e, Linn. 



Papilio Eapai, Linn. S. Nat. ii. 759. — Ililh. Pap. 404, 405. 



— Wood Lid. Ent. t. 1,/ 9. Pontia Rapae, Steph. Illust. 



Ilaust. i. 16. Pieris Rap^e, Staint. Man. i. 18. 

 Var. a. Pontia metra, Steph. Illust. Haust. i. 19. — Wood 



Lid. Ent. t. 1,/. 10. 

 Larva. Huh. Gesch. Pap. II. Gen. C. h. 1. — Diq). Icon. i. 



pi. 3,/. 8. 

 More abundant than the last, frequenting gardens and cul- 

 tivated ground, appearing early in May, and again in July. 

 The eggs are apparently deposited in a scattered manner, and 

 the larvse more generally diffused than those of P. Brassicce, so 

 that they seldom leave such marked traces of their ravages. 

 I have often observed them abundant on the mignonette in 

 autumn. P. Metra, Steph., is now considered a variety of this 

 species. I meet with a few specimens annually in my own 

 garden, usually in April. This year I captured one on the Gth 

 of that month, which had just emerged from the pupa. I have 

 repeatedly noticed that all the specimens which are produced 

 from pupge that have passed the winter in my stoves or green- 

 jiQ^ses — a locality to which the larva? frequently resort in 

 autumn to undergo their change — prove to be this variety. 



3. P. Napi, Linn. 



Papilio Napi, Linn. S. Nat. ii. 760. — Don. Brit. Ins. viii. 

 23, pi. 280, / I.— Ililh. Pap. 406, 407, 664, 665.— 



