WOOD-WHITE MARBLED WHITE. 



The caterpillar is green, striped on each side with 

 yellow ; it feeds on the Bird's-foot Trefoil, and other 

 leguminous plants. 



The chrysalis is shown on Plate I. fig. 18, and in 

 shape somewhat approaches that of the Orange-tip. 



The butterfly appears in May and August, and though 

 by no means a common or generally distrihuted insect, 

 is found and sometimes abundantly in many locali- 

 ties throughout the corritry, as far north as Carlisle; 

 some of these are here given. Woods in neighbour- 

 hood of Brighton, Horsham (Sussex), Dorchester, Xew 

 Forest, Exeter, Epping, "West Wickhani Wood, Monks- 

 wood, Huntingdonshire, Plymouth, "Wavendon, Wor- 

 cester, Kent and Surrey, Teignmouth, Gloucestershire, 

 Carlisle, Lake District, Leicester, Manchester, iNorth 

 Lancashire. Unknown in Scotland. 



THE MARBLED WHITE BUTTEEFLY. 

 (Arge Galathea,) (Plate V. fig. 3.) 



THIS highly interesting and tlegant insect would, by 

 the uninitiated, probably be classed among the last 

 group of Butterflies the Whites from the similarity 

 in its colours; but from all those it may be readily 

 distinguished by having only four walking legs (instead 

 of the six which all our other white butterflies possess), 



