IX 



FIELD NOTES ON SOME ENGLISH 

 BUTTERFLIES 



" There is a difference between a grub and a butterfly ; yet your 

 butterfly was a grub." SHAKESPEARE. 



AMONG the white butterflies that flit about the meadows 

 and even the grassy margins of the high roads, in May 

 and June, will be noticed some that have the outer por- 

 tions of the forewings orange-coloured. These are the 

 males of the orange-tip, but the females are without 

 the orange patch. The undersides of the hind-wings 

 in both sexes are marked with greenish, and when the 

 insects alight on the white flower-heads of the beaked 

 parsley, and various other early blooming Umbellifera, 

 the wings are so arranged that only this surface and 

 just the extreme blackish tips of the forewings can be 

 seen. Unless we carefully note the exact spot upon 

 which the butterfly pitched, we shall have some trouble 

 in detecting it on its resting-place. The markings of 

 the underside so beautifully correspond with the insect's 



