152 LLOYD'S NATURAL HISTORY. 



THE BATH WHITE. PONTIA DAPLIDICE. 



(Plate LIV. Figs. 3<J, 4, 5?-) 

 Papilio daplidice. Linn. Syst. Nat. (ed. x.) p. 468, no. 62 



(1758); Esper, Schmett. i. (i) p. 62, pi. 3, fig. 5 (1777) 



Hiibner, Eur. Schmett. i. figs. 414, 415 (1803?); figs. 



777, 778 (1825). 

 Pieris daplidice, Godart, Enc. Meth. ix. p. 128, no. 29 (1829) ; 



Boisduval, Spec. Gen. Lepid. i. p. 544, no. 154 (1836); 



Newman, Brit. Butterflies, p. 158 (1881) : Kirby, Eur. 



Butterflies and Moths, p. 7, pi. 4, fig. 6 (1878); Lang, 



Butterflies Eur. p. 33, pi. 7, fig. 4 (1881) ; Barrett, Lepid. 



Brit. Isl. i. p. 26, pi. 4, figs, i, i a-d (1892); Buckler, 



Larvse of Brit. Lepid. i. p. 21, pi. 3, fig. i (1886) \ Rye, 



Brit. Macro-Lepid. i. p. 14, pi. iii. figs. 6, 7 (1895). 

 Pontia daplidice, Curtis, Brit. Ent. i. pi. 48 (1824) ; Stephens, 



111. Brit. Ent. Haust. i. p. 22 (1827). 

 Papilio edusa, Fabricius, Gen. Ins. p. 255 (1777). 

 Var. Papilio bellidice, Brahm, in Illiger, Mag. Insekt. iv. p. 362 



(1805) ; Ochsenheimer, Schmett. Eur. i. (2) p. 354 (1808). 

 Papilio belemida, Hiibner, Eur. Schmett. i. figs. 931, 934 (i 841 ?). 

 Pieris daplidice, var. bellidice, Lang, Butterflies Eur. p. 34, 



pi. 8, fig. i (1881). 



The Bath White is common in many parts of Europe, 

 the Mediterranean Region generally, and Northern and Western 

 Asia, but it is commonest in the South. Although it has long 

 been known as an occasional inhabitant of most of the southern 

 counties of England, it has always been of extreme rarity with 

 us. It is found in May and August, but the spring brood is 

 much less frequently met with in Central Europe than the 

 autumn brood. It has a heavier flight than the species of 

 Pieris, and is fond of resting on low flowers on waste ground, 

 or in stubble fields. It derives its name from a young lady 

 having once executed a piece of needlework on which she 



