CATALOGUE. 



Class. INSECTA. 

 Order. LEPIDOPTERA. 



Sx^.c. I. RHOPALOCERA. 

 DIURNI. 

 Family. PIERID^. 

 Genus. PIERIS, Shrank. 



1. Pieris Brassicae (Linn.). Large White. 



Pieris Brassicce. Stainton's Manual, vol. 1, p. 18. 



,, ,, E"ewman's Brit. Butt., p. 165. 



,, ,, Barrett's Lepidoptcra of the British Isles, 



vol. 1, p. 21. 



Laeva. Buckler, vol. 1, pi. ii., fig. 2; 0. Wilson, pi. i., 



fig. 3. 



Very common in spring and autumn all over the district, ex- 

 cept on the moors and higher uncultivated ground. The larva 

 feeds on Tropoeolum (Nasturtium), and cultivated plants of the 

 cabbage kind. Being gregarious, the species is abundant wher- 

 ever these are grown. It is always to be found in market 

 gardens and the small enclosures about the suburbs of towns 

 and villages. As the larva is very rarely found on wild plants, 

 it is considered by many Entomologists not to be a true native, 

 but to have been imported by the Eomans among garden pro- 

 duce. It is, moreover, a species with very strong migratory 

 proclivities, and may easily have established itseK here. 



Large swarms of the species have occasionally been observed, 

 and it was once the writer's privilege at Hartlepool to witness 



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