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COMMON CABBAGE BUTTERFLY. 



Pontia Brassica 

 PLATE VII. FIGS. 1AND2. 



Pn. Brassicaj, Linn Don. xiii. 29, 446 Lewin, PI. 25 



Large Garden White, Harris. 



IN this well known insect the wings are white 

 above, with a large patch of black, somewhat indented 

 on its inner edge, on the tip of the anterior pair : 

 the male has no other mark on the upper surface, 

 except a black spot near the middle of the anterior 

 edge of the secondary wings ; but the female, besides 

 the spot just mentioned, has two others on the disk 

 of the upper wings, and an elongated patch at their 

 hinder margin. On the under side, both sexes are 

 nearly alike ; the colour inclines to yellow, especially 

 on the hinder wings, which appear as if sprinkled 

 with black, owing to an intermixture of dark-co- 

 loured scales ; the upper wings bear two conspicuous 

 black spots on each, and there is an indistinct dusky 

 mark on the anterior margin of the hinder pair. The 

 fringe <<f the wings is yellowish, slightly waved with 

 black. The body and antennae are white beneath, 

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