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BLACK VEINED. 



PLATE V[. 



Pieris cratcegi^ 



cc a 



Pa'pilio cratcegi, 



Pontia cratcegi, 

 Luconea cratcegi, 

 Aporia cratcegij 



SCHRANK. LaTRETLLE. BoISDUVAL, 



Stephen^s. Curtis. Duncan. 

 LiNN.EUs. Lewin. Donovan. 

 Albin. Wilkes. 

 Fabricius. 



DONZEL. 

 HUBNER. 



The remark made in a previous article as to an imaginary 

 hemisphere, may be .carried still farther by confining it to each 

 one's separate county; thus, the warm sandy soil in the extreme 

 south of Yorkshire — in the Doncaster neighbourhood, will be 

 found to be rich in insect life; the mountains of Craven to ha^e 

 their Alpine productions; flat Holderness those which are attached 

 to a low situation; and "The York and Ainsty" entomological 

 hunters will find their game in the covers that jDrotect it there. 



On the continent this Butterfly is so very conmion, and oc- 

 curs in some seasons in such prodigious numbers, as to cause 

 serious damage, in the caterpillar state, to gardens. 



The Black-veined White appears the end of June, and 

 beginning of July. 



This species, a very local one, is plentiful near Fevcrsham, 

 in Kent, where my friend, the Rev. Henry Hilton, has taken 

 it in former years; on the hill side near Cracombe House, 

 Evesham, Worcestershire, where my friend, Hugh Edwin 

 Strickland, Esq., when he resided there, used to see it in abun- 

 dance; and Barnwell and Ashton Wold, and the neighbourhood 

 of Polebrook, Northamj^tonshire, as the Hon. Thomas Littleton 

 Powys has informed me. The New Forest, in Hampshire; 



