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CHEQUERED WHITE. 



BATH WHITE. SLIGHT GKEENISH HALF-MOURNER. 

 VERNOUN's GREENISH HALF-MOURNER. 



PLATE X. 



Pontia Daplidice, Fabricius. Ochsenheimer. Curtis. 



Papilio Daplidice, Linn^us. Lewin. Donovan. 



Picris Daplidice, Schrank. Latreille. 



" " Boisduval. Zetterstedt. 



Mancipium Daplidice, Stephens. Duncan. 



Synchloe Daplidice, Hubner. 



Exceeded though this lovely insect 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 

 the southern parts of the continent of Europe, as well as on the 

 opposite coasts of Africa, in Barbary, as also in Asia Minor and 

 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. Ray has 

 recorded that it was formerly taken by Vernon, near Cambridge ; and 

 Petiver that it was found near Hampstead. Lewin says that one was 

 taken near Bath — whence one of its names, and that the fact had been 

 chronicled by a young lady in needlework, in which the fly was 

 depicted. Haworth states that one was taken in June in White Wood, 

 near Gamlingay, Cambridgeshire. Stephens captured one on the 14th. 

 of August, 1818, in the meadow behind the Castle of Dover, where 

 others have since been taken by Mr. Le Plaistrier, of that place ; 



