The British Butterflies Described 



and not at all easy to capture when the sun was high. 

 But when King Sol is sinking in the west, and all 

 decent butterflies have gone to rest, a turn through the 

 tame meadow while the light still lingers reveals the 

 Veined Whites all at rest on the flower-heads of the 

 Ladies' Smocks. It is then quite easy to select a few of 

 the best, and search for varieties, until in the deepening 

 twilight butterflies and flowers became so blended as to 

 present only a whitish blurr to the eye. There are two 

 broods one out in June, the other in August. 



The caterpillar is green, with yellow spots on the 

 sides, and may be found on various plants of the 

 cruciferous order, the cress group in particular. I have 

 found it on the Ladies' Smock (Cardamine pratense] and 

 on the large-flowered Bitter Cress (Cardamine amara). 

 For your collection always mount at least one of each 

 sex with the under side uppermost. The specimen 

 figured is a female ; the male has only one round spot 

 on each fore-wing. 



BATH WHITE (Pieris Dap/idice), Plate 1., Fig. 6. 

 This is the rarest of all our Whites ; indeed, it is 

 doubtful if it breeds in this country at all. A few 

 specimens are taken annually on the south-east coast 

 and neighbourhood, and the likelihood is that they 

 are migrants from the Continent. 



On the other hand, it is just possible that on account 

 of its close resemblance to the Green- Veined White 

 when on the wing, it is often passed over when 

 mixed up with and flying amongst a number of that 

 species. 



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