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that only the chief veins of the leaf are left, and the 

 margins are not spared. Bemedies: Collection of 

 the little heaps of yeUow eggs and the young cater- 

 pillars, which are blackish and live together in small 

 companies ; the planting of a few small hemp plants 

 in the cabbage fields to be protected, by which the 

 butterflies will be kept away. 



The Garden White, or Small White (Pieris rapce). 



Butterfly (Figs. 96 and 97) : Length rather less 

 than an inch, span of wing two inches ; very much 

 like the cabbage white. 

 Base and tip of the fore 

 wing not of such a deep 

 black colour; the black 

 patch in the inner margin 

 of the fore wing is usually 



Fig. 96 The Garden White (Pieris 



Tap(B\ male. 



Fig. 97, — The Garden White (Pieris rapes), 

 female, caterpillar. 



absent in the female. The male, however, very often 

 has a black patch in the upper side of the fore wing. 

 Caterpillar : Just over an; inch long. DuU green ; fa 

 longitudinal yellow line on the back ; also the black 

 stigmata are connected by a yellow line. Habits as 

 in the preceding species; the female, however, lays 

 her yellow eggs separately, and not in heaps, and the 

 second generation of caterpillars usually become 

 pupse somewhat later in the year. Collecting is more 



