CHEQUERED WHITE. 



BATH WIIITr;. SIJGHT GREEXISH HALF-MOURNER. 

 VERXOUn's greenish HALF-:\rOURXER. 



PLATE X. 



Poii/iff D(Q}!idice, Fabricius. Ochsenheimer. Curtis. 



P(fj>///o DapUdice, LiKN.TJifs. Lewin. Donovan. 



Pieris Dtipltdlve, ScHRANK. Latreille. 



" " BoisDUVAL. Zettekstedt. 



Munr'qnnm DapVidit'c, Stephens. Duncan. 



Sj/iichloe Dajjlid/ee, HuBNER. 



Exceeded though this lovely mscct is by many of brighter 

 colouring, yet it needs not the additional enhancement of its 

 great rarity to make the collector exclaim, "Can imagination 

 boast, amid her gay creation, hues like these?" This is indeed 

 a prize in his harmless lottery; one which it falls to the lot 

 of but very few to gain. It must be a singularly fortunate day 

 in the year that is not a blank one in regard to the capture 

 of the Chequered White. 



The Chequered White, or Bath White, is very common in 

 many of tlic southeiui parts of the continent of Europe, as 

 well as on the opposite coasts of Africa, in Barbary, and also 

 in Asia Minor, Cashmere, and no doubt in many other parts of 

 the Asiatic continent. It is mostly found in dry and sandy 

 situations. 



In this country, as before pointed out, it is very rare. E-ay 

 has recorded that it was formerly taken by Vernon, near Cam- 

 bridge; and Petivcr that it was found near Hampstead. Lewin 

 says that one was taken near Bath — whence one of its names, 

 and that the llict had been chronicled by a young lady in 

 needlework, in which the fly was depicted. Ilaworth states that 



