124 LADY OF THE WOODS. 



called from the nervures of their wings being marked on the 

 underside with dusky -green and the large " Hawthorn But- 

 terfly," or " Black- veined White."* The latter is a handsome 

 insect, with semi-transparent cream-white wings, strongly 

 veined with black. 



The pretty " Orange-Tip," or "Lady of the Woods, "f is 

 likewise of the cabbage family. In its green youth it is a feeder 

 also upon rape, cabbage, and other cruciform plants ; but this, 

 while a cafer-pillar, is no pillager of cates of culture, preferring 

 the vegetable in its wild growth a taste more accordant, 

 certainly, with the habits of its maturity and the favourite 

 spots such as open glades, and lawns, and woodlands, whither 

 it delights to fly, a-Maying. Though we are accustomed to 

 designate this darling of the summer as the " Orange-Tip " 

 and " The Lady of the Woods," these epithets, applied in 

 conjunction, or indifferently, are not by any means of correct 

 application, seeing that with these butterflies it is the lord only 

 of the lady, whose white pinions, besides bearing a black cres- 

 cent, are adorned by the patch of deep orange, which makes 

 the title of "Orange-Tip" befitting to him alone in both 

 himself and partner the wings on their reverse are beautifully 

 variegated in white and green. 



A few words now for a singular and beautiful tribe of But- 

 terflies, whose greatest beauty, however, like that of the wood 



* Pontia, or Pieris Cratoegi. t Pontia Cardamines. 



