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THE LARGE WHITE CABBAGE BUTTERFLY. 



Papllio Brassicte. 

 PLATE XLI. 



Papilio Brassier, Linn. Syst. Nat. ii. p. 759, No. 75. 

 Donovan's Brit. Ins. pi. 446. Pontia Brassicse, Latreille. 



THE wings are rounded and entire, of a pale 

 yellowish white ; the posterior margins fringed ; the 

 upper wings have a large patch of black at their tips, 

 and three large black spots, the upper ones being near 

 the centre, and the other beneath ; the lower wings 

 have a single black spot in the centre of their anterior 

 edge ; the female marked with two black spots ; the 

 body is black above, and yellow underneath. 



The larva is of an ashen-gray above, and cream 

 colour beneath, with a central line of yellow down its 

 back, the colour of its back and belly being divided 

 by a yellow line ; the head is black ; the whole upper 

 surface is thickly speckled with irregular punctated 

 black dots. 



In dry seasons, favourable to the growth and 

 increase of these pernicious insects, the larvae become 

 very injurious to our gardens, and would be infinitely 

 more so, were it not for the number of small birds 

 which prey upon them, arid thus lend their friendly 

 aid to destroy these rapacious intruders. They feed, 



