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BLACK VEINED. 



PLATE VI. 



Pieris cratcBgi, 

 ti ti 



Papilio cratcegi, 



a it 



Pontia cralcEgi, 

 Luconea cratagi, 

 Aporia craiagi, 



SCHRANK. LatREILLE. BoISDUVAL. 



Stephens. Curtis. Duncan. 

 LiNN.ffius. Lewin. Donovan. 

 Albin. Wilkes. 

 Fabricius. 



DONZEL. 

 HUBNER. 



The remark made in a previous article as to an imaginary hemis- 

 phere, 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 have 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 

 coverts that protect it there. 



On the continent this butterfly is so very common, and occurs 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 Feversham, in Kent, 

 where my friend, the Rev. Henry Hilton, has taken it in former years, 

 the Blean Woods, near Canterbury, and Knockwood, near Tenterden ; 

 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 abundance ; Sywell Wood, near Northampton ; and 

 Barnwell and Ashton Wold, and the neighbourhood of Polebrook, 

 Northamjjtonshire, as the Hon. Thomas Littleton Powys has informed 

 me. Lyndhurst and the New Forest, in Hampshire; and Combe Wood, 

 Surrey ; between Stilton and Alconbury, Huntingdonshire ; Enborne 

 Copse, near Newbury, Berkshire, the residence of the famous "Jack 



