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which are also sprinkled with black scales. The two discal 

 spots on the fore-wings reappear below in both sexes ; the other 

 dark markings are obsolete ; the fringes are yellowish, slightly 

 waved with black. The body and antennae are white beneath 

 and black above ; the thorax is clothed with hoary pubescence 

 above. 



The larva is green, with yellow lines on the back and sides ; 

 it is thickly covered with black tubercular points, each with a 

 hair in the centre. It feeds on cabbages, Tropceolum^ migno- 

 nette, and many other plants, and is very liable to the attacks 

 of small Ichneumons, or rather Braconidce. The yellow 

 cocoons of one of the most destructive of these parasites 

 (Apanteks glomeratus] may often be seen clustered round a 

 dead larva. The pupa is greenish, with yellow streaks, and 

 numerous black dots. The egg is figured (vol. i. pi. i, fig. 4). 



Pupa of P. brassic<z t 



THE EARLY WHITE CABBAGE BUTTERFLY. PIERIS CHARICLEA. 



(Plate LI I I. Fig. i.) 

 Pontia charidea, Stephens, 111. Brit. Ent. Haust. i. p. 17, 



pi. 3, figs, i, 2. 



This Butterfly, which occurs in May and June, is considered 

 to be only the spring brood of P. brassica^ and although th e 

 10 it 



